Rub parlours the problem: Strip club owners
samsung1
Ohio
Toronto strip club owners say they run a clean operation and claim their colleagues in the massage parlour business may be ruining it for all adult trade workers.
Members of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada is in the process of hiring a private firm to conduct a “security audit†of Toronto massage parlours to research the hiring and treatment of women.
They hope to have a report compiled within a month describing how those women are treated, according to its officials.
The association is having its annual meeting on Saturday at the House of Lancaster to launch a campaign to show they don't hire dancers who are in Canada illegally or victims of trafficking rings as alleged by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who has ordered the RCMP to investigate.
The owners blame the owners of massage parlours of not checking the status of their masseurs or if they've been trafficked into Canada.
A number of massage parlour operators refused to comment when contacted on Friday.
Association spokesman Tim Lambrinos said his officials are interviewing security firms next week for the audit.
“They will be conducting a security audit of massage parlours,†Lambrinos said Friday. “Massage parlours will be visited and evaluated as part of the research.â€
He said Toronto club owners will now ask each dancer being hired if they're victims of a trafficking ring. The dancers will also be given a form to fill out and a toll-free number to call if they have any difficulties.
He said Toronto club owners are experiencing an increase in undercover cops frequenting their clubs in search of dancers being mistreated.
Lambrinos said club owners don't want a return of 1989, when a police undercover operation called Project Almonzo raided dozens of clubs and arrested more than 350 strippers on immigration and other violations.
All the charges were dismissed when the cases went to court.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoan…
Members of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada is in the process of hiring a private firm to conduct a “security audit†of Toronto massage parlours to research the hiring and treatment of women.
They hope to have a report compiled within a month describing how those women are treated, according to its officials.
The association is having its annual meeting on Saturday at the House of Lancaster to launch a campaign to show they don't hire dancers who are in Canada illegally or victims of trafficking rings as alleged by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who has ordered the RCMP to investigate.
The owners blame the owners of massage parlours of not checking the status of their masseurs or if they've been trafficked into Canada.
A number of massage parlour operators refused to comment when contacted on Friday.
Association spokesman Tim Lambrinos said his officials are interviewing security firms next week for the audit.
“They will be conducting a security audit of massage parlours,†Lambrinos said Friday. “Massage parlours will be visited and evaluated as part of the research.â€
He said Toronto club owners will now ask each dancer being hired if they're victims of a trafficking ring. The dancers will also be given a form to fill out and a toll-free number to call if they have any difficulties.
He said Toronto club owners are experiencing an increase in undercover cops frequenting their clubs in search of dancers being mistreated.
Lambrinos said club owners don't want a return of 1989, when a police undercover operation called Project Almonzo raided dozens of clubs and arrested more than 350 strippers on immigration and other violations.
All the charges were dismissed when the cases went to court.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoan…
9 comments
True, clubs get busted too, but it seems like less often, and most of the things that might get me in trouble don't happen there much after the first time anyway.
Also, I do not think of myself as being very picky when it comes to race, but I still do not find myself attracted to Asians so much, and I have not seen any masseuses that were not Asian.
That sounds like crazy talk, but none the less, I agree with your overall point about being happier at strip clubs.
I've always felt that I could explain away a strip club visit as a "guy thing." For example, I prefer that my clubbing not be known at my workplace. But I've heard enough guys joking around at work that if it ever did come out, the reaction would probably be, "Steve, you old dog, you."
I think in the grand scheme of things in Toronto...you start off with SCs...move up to MPs (which are not all asian) then go on to find an Escort. For $200 - $300 you can have one hell of a time with any of these. Here in Cbus, you can't get sh&t for that (by comparison).
...which will go nowhere. Under what authority would the massages places even have to even speak to this private firm?? This is just silly divide-and-conquer nonsense. If there are legitimate human trafficking issues in play in either Ontario massage parlors OR strip clubs, there are likely already laws on the books to deal with those problems.
"and I have not seen any masseuses that were not Asian."
There are non-Asians all over the place in Ontario massage parlors. They are at least slightly harder to find down here in the States though.