Talk:Massage parlor

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I can tell most of this written by someone whose native language is not English. Rintrah 08:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

These Thai masseuses sound like prositutes — 'HIV tests', and 'mandatory condom use' indicate prostitution. How are 'massages' distinct from sex with prositutes? Rintrah 11:07, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

This page should be merged with the page massage parlour. theothermeat 23:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree. 'Parlor' is the American spelling, and the other article is better written, so it should host the content of this one. The other one confirms my suspicious that Massage Parlour is a type of brothel. Rintrah 06:23, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and merged this article with "massage parlour". It will be easier for anyone to edit if everything's on one page. Since I'm Americon I chose "parlor" as the main page. Tocharianne 23:07, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for merging the articles Tocharianne! theothermeat 02:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links and refs

Someone added some references for Toronto but those were for holistice center/massage parlors so I changed the text. They also added links for "Other cities in Canada" but those websites didn't actually have any such information so I removed them. Maybe we should remove everything that doesn't have a story published by a legitimate news source?

I removed the external links that pointed to lists of massage parlors--Wikipedia is not a directory. Tocharianne 16:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split?

This article seems rather confused, in that it tries to cover both massage parlours which really are massage parlours, and "massage parlours" in the sexual euphemism sense. (I'm British, and "massage" ads in newspaper classified sections almost always refer to the second sort.) Might it not be better to split the sexual stuff out? I see we already have an Erotic massage article, but again I'm not sure that's quite right for the "massage parlour" stuff, since those things commonly offer sexual services that have no massage component at all. Loganberry (Talk) 00:30, 27 February 2008 (UTC)