Masseuses go into lockdown
Stephen Fitzpatrick; 12/4/08
The fine line between sex and therapy has reached a sudden and unexpected climax in Indonesia, with massage parlours in a small East Java town requiring their female staff to wear padlocks on their trousers. The trend has seized the imagination in a country which, while nominally the world’s largest Muslim nation, has a roaring trade in prostitution and remarkably flexible views on sexual practice. At the Dhoghadho massage parlour in the town of Batu, East Java, the staff are keen to distance themselves from the kind of “happy ending” service generally associated with their trade. Dhoghadho’s proprietor, Franky Setiawan, had the brainwave to lock shut the women’s pants after the parlour experienced what he described as “a number of activities not consistent with our aim of providing a family service”.
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