On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7:24:22 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 03:44:11 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 5:40:28 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> >> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:54:07 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 4:57:42 PM UTC-4, bruce bowser wrote:
> >> >> "While the U.S. has seen mass killings in recent years where police said gunmen had racist or misogynist motivations, advocates and scholars say the shootings this week at three Atlanta-area massage parlors targeted a group of people marginalized in more ways than one, in a crime that stitches together stigmas about race, gender, migrant work and sex work."
> >> >
> >> >Of course they were whorehouses. If you don't know that "massage parlor" has
> >> >been code for "sex for sale" for at least four decades, it reveals that you're
> >> >not an American.
> >> As if a hermit like you would know
> >
> >I read the news. The Ann Arbor police have busted local massage parlors.
> >
> >> There are also massage parlors
> >> where you can only get actual massages.
> >
> >But they're not called that. Generally they refer to them by the workers'
> >profession: massage therapists.
> >
> >Ann Arbor Therapeutic Massage
> >Therapeutic Massage Associates
> >etc.
> So when you're illegal, you call yourself a "Massage Parlor" so the
> police know to come and get you. Makes sense

No, those are usually called "Lotus Garden" or something like that. I can't
quite recall the one that was in the news after the police cleared it out.

Cindy Hamilton