Rants and Raves

[AtlantaNights]

I too have a permit. I carry everywhere, years before this happened. The gun is useless in the car and also just gives a scumbum the opportunity to steal your gun and use it in ways that you would not want it used. The places I go to know that I carry and they are good with it, especially now, but then they have known me for a long time and they know I won't back down from a situation. New places might be different though since this is so fresh and they will probably be frightened at the sight or the appearance of a gun. In that case the emphasis should be on the term "conceal" so that they don't see it. As a responsible gun owner I'm sure that you know what to do and what will be the right call to make.

I imagine it's best to leave your gun in your glovebox instead of bringing it in. Seeing a gun would likely frighten the girl and lessen the chance of getting fully serviced.

[AtlantaNights]

https://www.gq.com/story/sex-work-is...-spa-shootings

Someone break this down for me.

If sex work is care work, I need a new career.

Absolute garbage article. She's just another weak journalist trying to make the story about her and her feelings. Nothing at all about the actual women who were shot dead on the other side of the country, but, yeah, go off about how you had your brows done by an Asian.

[Niteluvr]

The one I was thinking was at a Luby's.

Yeah, but that was in Killeen, not Lubbock.

[Ozymandias]

https://www.gq.com/story/sex-work-is...-spa-shootings

Someone break this down for me.

If sex work is care work, I need a new career.

This is just taking control of the narrative. It's like how gay people started calling themselves "queer", and eventually "LGBT"; once you start defining your own category (or someone else's) you gain a certain amount of power over yourself (or others, as the case may be.). There's a good essay by Thomas Szasz on this very subject (no link, but you might Google it?)

So: care work. For awhile, there have been two warring Leftist narratives about "sex work", one which calls it a legitimate kind of work deserving of protections, and the other which conflates it with human trafficking. I guess "care work" tilts the argument towards the "legitimacy" argument, which, on balance, is a good thing.

FWIW, I *have* met some pretty "caring" sex workers! (and I'd say they outnumber the handful of frightening narcissists and psychopaths I've also met in the game.).

O.

[HobbyMan51]

You've got a better chance getting shot and killed at any Atlanta convenience store / gas station. If you think it's all of a sudden dangerous to go to a massage parlor because one crazy (who is in custody) got stupid because he was horny you need to lay off the liberal cool aid.

Do you remember when a whack job shot up a mcdonalds some years back killing like 17 people? So did you think it was dangerous to go to mcdonalds after that? You can get killed anywhere anytime, for no reason. I'm all for getting a weapons license, but that's because no place in the country is safe, but a massage joint is no more dangerous than the grocery store. Heck in the past year been many grocery store shootings over masks.

A whack shot up a grocery store in Boulder, CO today. So far ten are dead including a police officer. The perp is alive and appears to be a pudgy white male. The beat goes on.

[HobbyMan51]

https://www.gq.com/story/sex-work-is...-spa-shootings

Someone break this down for me.

If sex work is care work, I need a new career.

The author is a woke Asian female from California who knows that emotion sells. Just another scab capitalizing on last week's tragedy, no better than the media turds and political hacks.

[The Wiseacre]

https://www.gq.com/story/sex-work-is...-spa-shootings

Someone break this down for me.

If sex work is care work, I need a new career.

[Fretz]

No, it was in San Diego back in 1984. Twenty-one people were killed.

The one I was thinking was at a Luby's.

[Ozymandias]

I would not panic in the least over this. I believe it's a one-off and not likely to happen for a long time, if ever. I liken the chances to a woman with huge tits removing her bra at a weak spot on the San Andreas fault and causing Armageddon. Could happen? Yeah, but not fucking likely!

Absolutely this. It was an anomaly.

If anything, massage joints are even safer now. And will be for a little while. Than they were before. Heightened threat awareness does that.

O.

[Niteluvr]

Lubbock Texas in the 80's.

No, it was in San Diego back in 1984. Twenty-one people were killed.

[Fretz]

Wasn't that in California somewhere? I think they bulldozed the building and put up a memorial.

Lubbock Texas in the 80's.

[Niteluvr]

Yep, while laying face down and naked. Or having sex when the door busts open by a lunatic gunman. I will have to stick to hotels as at least the door locks.

I would not panic in the least over this. I believe it's a one-off and not likely to happen for a long time, if ever. I liken the chances to a woman with huge tits removing her bra at a weak spot on the San Andreas fault and causing Armageddon. Could happen? Yeah, but not fucking likely!

[Niteluvr]

Out of curiosity, are any of the three now infamous spas reviewed here? Are they R&Ts or legit?

If they're R&Ts and the victims have family, etc. That the press is reporting on, doesn't that skew the narrative that these places are part of some international trafficking ring out of flushing NY and that their passports are confiscated and they're forced to sleep in the shop in squalid conditions?

All three parlors been reviewed extensively over the years. Young's was a Chinese parlor (rub and tug) and the other two were Korean parlors (full service). Those women are not trafficked in any way. Koreans are usually recruited from Korea but not forced into anything. Their network allows them to move around freely to different parlors in the States and they even have their own "taxi" system to move them around.

Yes, Flushing, NY has a shit ton of Koreans and there's a lot of shady stuff that happens there (mostly gambling and real estate dealings), but forcing women to work against their will is not one of them.

[Niteluvr]

You've got a better chance getting shot and killed at any Atlanta convenience store / gas station. If you think it's all of a sudden dangerous to go to a massage parlor because one crazy (who is in custody) got stupid because he was horny you need to lay off the liberal cool aid.

Do you remember when a whack job shot up a mcdonalds some years back killing like 17 people? So did you think it was dangerous to go to mcdonalds after that? You can get killed anywhere anytime, for no reason. I'm all for getting a weapons license, but that's because no place in the country is safe, but a massage joint is no more dangerous than the grocery store. Heck in the past year been many grocery store shootings over masks.

Wasn't that in California somewhere? I think they bulldozed the building and put up a memorial.

[Ozymandias]

I have a concealed carry permit. I usually leave the gun in the car. I wonder what they would say if they happened to see the outline or the gun.

Anyone had experience with this?

I carry in general (point of clarity, Georgia has a Firearms Permit, not a concealed carry permit; if you have a GA Firearms permit, you can carry open or conceal), but if I visited a spa I would leave it in the glovebox.

If you aren't going to be in possession of your gun for some period of time, which is going to happen in a spa, it's better not to have it. I mean, you can't really take it to the table shower with you, so at least for a few minutes it's in your *unlocked* spa room. When you're fucking, you're not going to be wearing it or have it on hand. I guess you could set it on the little table with the lotions and tissues, but again, there are just times when YOU are not really in control of the gun; I mean, if she's riding you asian cowgirl, she has an easier reach for it, since you need to kind of twist around. It just doesn't work.

(I guess if it's jacket season you could pocket-carry a microcompact like a P938 or a LC9 and drape your jacket on the chair so you could reach and draw pretty quickly, but you still have the unattended firearm during the table shower.).

Part of the appeal of AMPs (or KAMPs, at least) is that in general there is SOME kind of admittance process. Usually you go up, and there might be an intercom, or at least a little waiting room before you actually enter the facility. In theory, even leaving clothes in the room to go to the table shower is an exercise in "I hope my clothes will still be here", but at least you've gone through 3-4 doors and a mamas to get into the room. Frankly, they need buzz-in security at any AMP, but if this guy had patronized these places, they'd have buzzed him in anyway. Still, a little more secure.

O.