Often the reviewers call the parlor manager the “mama-san,” a Japanese or East Asian term for a woman who runs a geisha house or bar or nightclub, further emphasizing the Asian culture of the parlors.Ī client who visited Be Be Aromatherapy, the massage parlor at 7541 Santa Monica Blvd., posted a very explicit review on RubMaps, most of which cannot be published on WEHOville because of its highly sexual content. The site also asks reviewers to describe the hair over the masseuse’s vagina and to note whether she offers any of nine highly specific sexual acts, including oral sex and anal sex.
Most use some sort of slang, like BJ for oral sex or CFS for sex with a condom Each reviewer is asked to note the ethnicity of the masseuse, estimate her age and height, describe her hair and eye color and breast size and whether her breasts appear to have had implants. They use highly explicit terms that describe the type of sex that takes place. The reviews make clear virtually all of these businesses are more about sex than shiatsu or Swedish massage. Those who are Latin or Hispanic constitute only 9% according to a 2010 city Preponderance of Asian and Latin women is unusual in a city where women of anĪsian or Pacific Island ethnicity make up only 6% of the female population and Massage, with only one labeled as offering “Caucasian massage.” The On RubMaps the parlorsĪre described as offering Asian, Chinese, Dominican, Korean, Latina and Thai Two massage parlors identified on RubMaps as located in West Hollywood are on La Cienega Boulevard and actually j ust outside the city limits.Įrotic reviews posted by customers of the West Hollywood and La Cienegaīoulevard massage parlors on RubMaps describe paid sexual encounters with youngĪnd middle-aged women, most of whom are Asian or Latina. Another nine West Hollywood parlors listed on RubMaps have closed over the past three years. All are located on Santa Monica Boulevard, sometimes in places difficult to spot while driving down the street. Our city of 1.89 square miles is home to nine active massage parlors listed on, a “Yelp” for customers of illicit massage parlors who rate and describe their satisfaction with the sexual services they receive. There were “an estimated 9,000 illicit massage parlors across the country.”Ī handful of those apparently are in West Hollywood.
The Times said law enforcement reported that “Behind Illicit Massage Parlors Lie a Vast Crime Network and Modern Indentured Servitude.” That’s the headline of a story published in The New York Times on March 2 that describes a “$3 billion-a-year sex industry that relies on pervasive secrecy, close-knit ownership rings and tens of thousands of mostly foreign women ensnared in a form of modern indentured servitude an industry.” When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.The gate entrance, just left of the tree, to Momo Therapy massage at 7551 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).