Are Houston’s massage parlors havens for sex, prostitution?
Oct. 28, 2010, 5:31PM
Coming Sunday: It has been called VIP Spa, King Spa, Montage Massage & Day Spa and now, Du Soleil — though it has it has no sign marking it as a massage parlor, just curtain-covered windows in a storefront strip mall and a red and blue light declaring it “OPEN.” On 14 separate visits to this nondescript establishment over the last two years, vice officers have arrested 23 women for agreeing to sex dates. Yet the Richmond Avenue enterprise is open for business – one of at least 550 massage parlors that have operated illegally in the city of Houston, according to court documents, data and public reports.
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