Inside The $4.5 Billion Erotic Massage Parlor Economy

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Massages involving sexual acts are everywhere in the United States. But the stories of the women who provide them reveal less about sex trafficking and more about the high price some immigrants pay for a chance at the American Dream.

involving 116 illicit massage parlor employees in New York and Los Angeles, 83% of women interviewed said they were not forced or coerced to give erotic massages.

Lois Takahashi, the study’s co-author and a professor at the University of Southern California, says 69% of massage workers they interviewed had children and 32% of the study’s participants said they worked at illicit massage parlors by necessity, 19% by choice, and 49% cited both factors into their decision.

Offering sexual extras during a massage can be the difference between making ends meet, or not. Working as a manicurist or a waitress pays between $200 to $2,000 per month, sex workers say, while illicit massage workers can make $200 on a good day or around $1,000 a week. Of course, this story is not only about Asian immigrants. In 2017, an undocumented Honduran immigrant named Maya Morena started working at an Asian massage parlor in Flushing after responding to an ad on Craigslist. Morena, who is 27, says she got into sex work to help pay for college. “The vast majority of people do sex work for quick cash,” she says.

As for the owner of the business where she worked, Morena says he wasn’t part of a vast criminal enterprise—he was also just trying to pay his bills. Because immigrants are more vulnerable in these situations, many sex workers and advocates support decriminalization, which would make it easier and safer for workers to earn a living without fear of being arrested or deported. “As long as it’s a crime, you’ll have bad people, bad cops, bad actors who extort people who are willing to engage in sex for money,” says Norma Jean Almodovar, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer and a former sex worker turned advocate.

 

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