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* To avoid confusion, many legal massage establishments stress that they are licensed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Body Shops | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Agile parlor operators stand ever ready to stay one jump ahead of the law. When Chicago parlor operators learned that state prostitution statutes made no mention of masturbatory acts, masseuses legally provided such services until the city uncovered a state obscenity statute that could be applied. The owner of Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Body Shops | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Yet in some areas imaginative citizens are fighting massage parlors and succeeding. Residents of Fremont, Calif, picketed two parlors and publicized the license plates of customers. After two weeks, one parlor closed, and the other agreed to turn into a legitimate massage service. Now the group plans to picket the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Body Shops | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

One of the common legal tactics for controlling parlors is strict "regulation." Falls Church, Va., a Washington suburb, requires massage parlors to pay a whopping $5,000 annual fee and masseuses to take 1,000 hours of training. Since such requirements are clearly open to legal challenge, some cities are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Body Shops | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Chicago is one of the few cities that seems to have the parlor operators on the run. Police have conducted 246 raids in three years, arresting whores and customers alike. By last October, when a new ordinance required parlors to be licensed and all employees to be fully clothed, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Body Shops | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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