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38 states and the District of Columbia require some type of licencing for massage therapists.
In Rhode Island, prostitution was legal "behind closed doors" from 1980 until 2009. For this reason, massage parlors, also known as "spas" were known to be involved in prostitution. (See Prostitution in Rhode Island.)
In New Jersey, there are an estimated 525 massage parlors acting as fronts for the prostitution industry.
An ongoing study of the prostitution business in New York City by the Sociology Department of Columbia University found that between 1991 and 2010, the rise of the internet and mobile phones “have enabled some sex workers to professionalize their trade,” with a shift from streetwalking to “indoor” market (including massage parlors and escort agencies), a geographical change in the concentration of sex work, and the growth of a more expensive luxury market.
An investigation by Time Out New York in January 2011 found New York City massage parlors charging from $60 to $100 per visit, with an extra tip for the sex workers (usually $40) for a massage and “happy ending” (or manual stimulation of the penis until orgasm). Most of the massage parlors reviewed were very strict about the female masseuse not being touched back by the male client, but in some parlors, further contact could be negotiated.
In Washington, D.C., an Asian massage parlor can earn up to $1.2 million a year.
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“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder—in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
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—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, introduction (1991)
“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)