Michelle, Asian Gal Massage
Avoid at all costs.
I've had a particularly stressful period of my life, and I went in with the hopes of seeing Amy, an older woman who damn near has me falling asleep on that table.
Instead, I got Michelle, who was talking money from the get go. I went for a half-hour massage, at her suggestion, and she told me she gets a minimum of $80 for a hj.
Well, all I have is the change, I said, which was 60. Next time bring $80, she said.
Wouldn't even let me touch her ass. Seeing those hooters alone would've cost $100 for the package.
As I was leaving, I tried to explain that the main reason guys come to these places is to relax. "You come to relax, we come to make the money," she said.
So I pulled out a few bills I'd left in my pocket. "Well, thanks for saving me this," I said.
Mesa to target massage parlors for prostitution
by Kristena Hansen and Gary Nelson - Jul. 29, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
Mesa police say they will crack down on scores of massage parlors that they and city officials believe could be fronts for prostitution and other crimes.
At the same time, the City Council's public-safety subcommittee chairman says he will push for a rewrite of Mesa's massage-parlor code, which was watered down when the council last approved revisions in 2004. Council member Dennis Kavanaugh said he hopes to have a proposal ready for consideration next month.
"It's like an unholy storm coming together," said Kavanaugh, who blames weak city regulations, inexpensive rent in some Mesa strip malls and the lousy economy for the proliferation of low-end massage parlors.
An Arizona Republic review of massage-parlor ordinances in six Valley cities showed Mesa's to be the most lax.
Five of the cities, for example, have detailed regulations governing lighting, plumbing and sanitation in massage businesses. Mesa eliminated those provisions when it rewrote its code in 2004.
Mesa changed its ordinance to bring it into compliance with a law that gave authority to the state of Arizona to issue massage licenses as of Jan. 1, 2005. The state law, however, deals only with therapists' licensing requirements and the duties of the Board of Massage Therapy. It does not address the physical premises of massage facilities.
City records contain no minutes showing that the council discussed those issues before passing the ordinance without comment on Nov. 15, 2004.
Further, unlike other cities that forbid massage-business operations after midnight, Mesa's law does not restrict their hours of operation.
Former Vice Mayor Claudia Walters said she had no memory of the council discussing those changes. Kavanaugh was not on the council at that time.
"It's not hidden what a lot of these massage parlors are about," said Detective John Fitzgerald of Mesa's Red Mountain District and a member of the street-crime unit. "It's very hard to prove prostitution in an environment like this, in an environment that knows what to do, what to say, what not to say."
Some merchants say the presence of nearby massage parlors has a negative effect on their businesses and working life.
Vicki Bloomquist works at Creative Destinations, a bead store two doors down from a massage parlor at the southeastern corner of U.S. 60 and Alma School Road.
On a recent weekend, she said, a nicely dressed woman in her 60s was shopping as her husband waited in the car. He began calling her repeatedly on her cellphone after he noticed the massage parlor and became worried for her safety. She checked out and left in a hurry, Bloomquist said.
"She was a new customer. I don't know whether she'll be back," she said.
Store owner Emily Cassaday said she carefully researched crime statistics before opening the bead store six years ago. The massage parlor's arrival may not have changed those numbers, she said, but it has generated concern among her mostly female customers.
"I just sense their apprehension," Cassaday said. When customers leave at night, "we stand at the door and watch just to make sure they're safe."
Male massage-parlor customers often park in front of her store, she said, "and kind of furtively look around and head down there. . . . Our clientele sees that, and that doesn't help us at all."
Police task force
Assistant Police Chief John Meza told Kavanaugh in a recent memo that the department would immediately organize an "ad hoc vice unit" to bolster the department's already-accelerating efforts to bust illegitimate massage parlors.
Meza said he would pull together five detectives and a supervisor in a concentrated effort to inspect the businesses and cite offenders.
"It's going to tell us a lot," Meza said. "It's going to tell us how deep our problem is."
Although police in other U.S. cities have found links between massage parlors, organized crime and international human trafficking, "we have yet to show that linkage here in Mesa," Meza said. "But that doesn't mean that it is not happening."
Kavanaugh said employees may be living in some of the facilities. "These may be young women who are almost in a state of slavery," he said.
Kavanaugh said he and other council members have been tracking the industry's growth in Mesa for about a year after receiving complaints from residents. Intensified efforts to deal with rogue massage parlors sprang from several meetings he had with police officials over that time, he said.
He asked the police department in June for legal advice on the issue. In response, department attorney Nancy Sorensen told Kavanaugh in a memo that Mesa's massage-parlor ordinance needs to be strengthened.
City records show the number of massage parlors in Mesa has increased more than 60 percent over the past three years. Tax and licensing records showed 73 parlors in April 2006. That number is now 119, with nine licenses pending.
That tally includes numerous businesses that offer standard, therapeutic massages, and an unknown number of others that police believe offer back-room sexual services behind blacked-out front windows at all hours of the day and night.
Phoenix, by comparison, has about three times Mesa's population but reported about 30 fewer active massage-parlor licenses.
Officers' tactics change
In 1999, the Mesa Police Department reported at least two instances when male officers had gotten naked to convince suspected massage-parlor prostitutes that they weren't police officers. In both cases, the men allowed their genitals to be touched.
After those cases came to light, then-Chief Jan Strauss suspended massage-parlor enforcement as the department evaluated its policy. Officers are now strictly forbidden to cross those lines in their enforcement efforts.
Over the past year, police have focused on unannounced visits, checking for city-code violations. At least one parlor was shut down for operating without a business license.
The inspections have uncovered at least anecdotal evidence of illicit activity.
In December, police said they saw what they believed were several used condoms in a trash bag outside the back of a massage parlor near Mesa Drive and Southern Avenue.
A female employee told officers she and another worker performed sexual acts on customers for money and said the business owner encouraged them to do so when they were hired, according to police reports.
One woman was cited for acting as a massage therapist without the required license. When police returned later that month to speak with the owner, the massage parlor was closed.
On another inspection in January, police caught a man leaving through the back door of a parlor near McKellips and Lindsay roads. He admitted receiving sexual acts from the same masseuse two weeks prior for an extra cost, according to the report.
The masseuse admitted performing sexual acts on the customer and on different occasions with others. She was cited for touching off-limits anatomical areas and for not having a massage license.
Mesa To Target Massage Parlors
[QUOTE=Quipster]Mesa police say they will crack down on scores of massage parlors that they and city officials believe could be fronts for prostitution and other crimes.[/QUOTE]What other crimes?
Also, isn't it still pretty safe for a monger? What can they do to you? I understand they can't come into the room you are in but maybe they could stop you on the way out to ask you questions. Would think it would be too easy to say "5th! " They then might threaten to tell your significant other about your stop if you don't cooperate etc?
Could they setup a cop inside a MP? I used to worry about this when I first started but all I really worry about now is if the girl is one that will provide extras or not and how embarrasing it would be if she didn't.
I Don't go. Massage parlors
[QUOTE=NeverTell]I'm not conviced that PussCollector is is TempeStud75 but I do agree his posts are fake. He states in May that he is afraid of AMPs but then in July he states that he is on his way to his "regular" monthly AMP visit. How do you get a regular in 2 months?
I am convinced however that you, Confuse, are TempeStud75. You joined 2 days before TempeStud75 was banned. You had to know that you were getting banned so you quickly created another account to make sure you would be able to get on the site.
You have not provided any good info to this site. Your first post was rejected by Jackson and now your second post is tyring to bring up an old discussion that is better left dead. Sounds just like something TempeStud75 would do.
Your third post will be spent calling me a moronic boob, that you get more girls than I and that you have so much money you don't know what to do with it.
If you are smart, your 4th post will be about the AMP you visited and the girl you saw, how much money it cost and how good she was. Let's keep the board focused![/QUOTE]I Don't go. Massage parlors that offer "special" services in my state ...
I'm only here to help some of my friends. I'm only here to monitor this site...
I'm sorry I have nothing to share with you.
Mesa offices on the 'front lines' of the AMP scene?
Oriental Gals and Sunshine Spa I'm guessing.. Wondered when Mesa was going to crack down on this. It was somewhat comical to see the number of ads in the back of New Times (the bulk of them in Mesa)
[url]http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2009/07/30/20090730mr-massage0731.html[/url]
The detectives continued on, pulling into a strip mall near Gilbert and Broadway roads, where two more massage parlors neighbor each other.
Inside the first one, they found five women, but only one massage license. Detectives cited the license holder for not having a copy posted in a conspicuous place. Several of the women did not speak English, but they all indicated that only the woman whose name was on the license gave massages.
The detectives continued on to the next establishment. Only one woman was there but she was cited for not having a valid license because hers had expired earlier in the month. Detectives found rows of high-heeled shoes, a shower stall, and a bedroom area in the back.
While they were citing her, a man walked in, saw the two officers with their badges and bulletproof vests, and left in a hurry. When Fitzgerald caught up to him in the parking lot, said he always tells the masseuse up front that he doesn't want anything more than a massage. When Fitzgerald asked the man why he felt he had to state that, the man couldn't provide an answer.
As Fitzgerald and the man talked, he saw a customer walk into the parlor where the five women worked.
Fitzgerald offered to bet that the woman who massaged that customer wouldn't be the woman whose name is on the license.
They waited for the customer to come out, and he appeared nervous when detectives asked him to describe the woman who gave him the massage. He said he didn't do anything wrong and told the detectives that his wife instructed him to get foot massages for his diabetes.
The man agreed to go back in and identify which woman had given him the massage. Fitzgerald won his bet. The woman who worked on the customer was cited for giving a massage without a license.
