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Some are legitimate enterprises, some offer vague sexual titillation, and many are simply brothels. Parlors that advertise or hint at "full sexual services" are spreading across the country as fast as fast-food stores.* Indeed, the massage-parlor phenomenon is an American twist on the world's oldest profession: merchandising women's bodies in storefronts, complete with ad budgets and payment by credit card...
...Agile parlor operators stand ever ready to stay one jump ahead of the law. When Chicago parlor operators learned that state prostitution statutes made no mention of masturbatory acts, masseuses legally provided such services until the city uncovered a state obscenity statute that could be applied. The owner of Milwaukee's Touch of Class, who claimed to be running a legitimate business, closed down after the city passed a massage-parlor law. Then he threatened to reopen as a photographic-arts studio. The city discovered it also had regulations covering photo studios, so Touch of Class...
...some areas imaginative citizens are fighting massage parlors and succeeding. Residents of Fremont, Calif, picketed two parlors and publicized the license plates of customers. After two weeks, one parlor closed, and the other agreed to turn into a legitimate massage service. Now the group plans to picket the town's seven remaining parlors...
Chicago is one of the few cities that seems to have the parlor operators on the run. Police have conducted 246 raids in three years, arresting whores and customers alike. By last October, when a new ordinance required parlors to be licensed and all employees to be fully clothed, the number of Chicago's massage establishments had dwindled from 35 to 14. Now only five are left. Says Sergeant Bob Baker of the city's vice squad: "For some strange reason, we seem to be winning." That reason may not be the law, which has failed elsewhere...
Dream Pastiche. The thought is small comfort, and less justification. Louis Malle, director of Lacombe, Lucien and The Fire Within, is attempting in Black Moon some manner of dream pastiche, a symbolic fantasy of adolescence. The movie is like the ragged end of a halfhearted parlor game played by Freud and Lewis Carroll on a slow summer evening. The young girl's appearance and her slightly prissy ingenuousness come from the Alice books. So do the controlled flights of strangeness. Carroll's wit is lacking, however, and his sense of wonder...