La Presse front page "exposé" on MPs

[Brandon W.]

Hey gentlemen, take a look at the Saturday edition of La Presse (17 December). Front-page article on massage therapy in Montreal "with or without extras".

Two male journalists sample 10 MPs and feign shock at the availability of hand jobs in them. As though someone in Montreal didn't know, or anyone cared.

But these guys got their employers to pay them to get relaxed at least, so I guess they had to produce something with the expected righteous tone. As though there were only one kind of massage that's legit.

More stories in this series of shocking exposés in the section Actualités.

Even the LE representatives they interviewed said that unless they get a complaint or suspect under-age employees, they leave the places alone. The last paragraph explains that it's legal.

What a pseudo-story. Kind of amusing, really. The kind of story you'd expect to find in some small-town newspaper in Stephen Harper's home town maybe. Or maybe Macon, Georgia or somewhere down in the bible belt. But in Montréal?

Still it may have a temporary impact on MP hassles and paranoia. Or it may induce a pre-Christmas rush by clients? See URL below, FWIW. (In French, obviously)

Him Eros

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Le samedi 17 déc 2005

Massothérapie avec ou sans extra?
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051217/CPACTUALITES/512170394/1019/CPACTUALITES&template=printart&print=1

Nicolas Bérubé
Hugo Meunier

Montréal

Des dizaines de salons de massothérapie établis dans tous les quartiers de la ville offrent des services sexuels à leurs clients, des hommes dans la majorité des cas, a découvert La Presse, qui a fait enquête auprès d'une cinquantaine de ces établissements ...



En toute légalité

Il faut dire que même la police a de la difficulté à évaluer le phénomène puisqu'elle n'a pas les salons de massothérapie à l'oeil. Le commandant Alain Thibault, responsable du module alcool, stupéfiants et moralité pour le centre-ville de Montréal, explique que ce sont souvent les plaintes du public qui déclenchent des opérations policières dans les salons de massothérapie. Sans plainte, bien souvent, la police ne trouve pas matière à enquête.

« Par exemple, des gens du voisinage se plaignent d'un va-et-vient inhabituel. Alors on peut aller enquêter et voir s'il s'agit d'une maison de débauche. On peut aussi enquêter si on a des raisons de croire que des mineures travaillent dans tel ou tel salon. Sinon, on tient pour acquis que les studios de massage sont conformes à la loi et au permis d'occupation délivré par l'arrondissement. »

Au Canada, un salon de massothérapie où l'on dispenserait à l'occasion des services sexuels serait tout à fait légal. C'est le côté systématique de l'affaire qui fait de ces salons des maisons de débauche, affirme l'avocat Nicolas Bellemare, spécialisé en droit criminel. « Au Canada, la prostitution n'est pas un crime. Ce qui est interdit, c'est de tenir une maison de débauche et de faire de la sollicitation dans la rue. »

 

[LP640]

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La Presse is about 8 months behind a story that was picked up by the Edmonton Sun and The Gazette back in April 2005.

Anyway, 'yes' there is always the risk of LE coming through the door...but then again..where would 'they' go after that. Let's not forget they are customers as well!

Golden Rule #1
If we don't take of the customer...someone else will.

 

[Missy.]

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so, since it's as he said, why Hugo Meunier wrote this story?

 

[Kaio j]

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LE will follow in?

 

[Curt J]

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Don't think LE need this story. They probably read this Board already.

 

[mariam]

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the cops are being publicly laughed at and insurance companies will stop covering massage sessions.a crack down is coming just to quiet critics for a while then things will get back to normal.2 places busted within the last 2 months same area and a lot of action going on there.st hubert place and cinderella.heads up boys avoid these places in the paper.the cops are such a joke in montreal they can even enforce the law,if it exists.

 

[Rupert]

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what is the story by The Gazette

 

[William T]

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fellini,

I remember something in the Gazette, and a cutting back on classified ads for massage for a few weeks.

But why would the Edmonton Sun waste precious column inches writing about Montreal? All Albertans already know we in Quebec are a bunch of licentious degenerates.

H.

 

[Ac jasmine]

La Presse parle d'un milieu de travail qui exploite des femmes effectuant pour de l'argent un boulôt qui les répugnent. Les massothérapeuthes qui pensent autrement devraient donner leur point de vue. Celles qui y voient un travail décent et valorisant devraient peut être donner des conseils aux autres.

La question que pose ces articles de La Presse c'est: En fermant les yeux et en tolérant ces réalités, est-ce que la société nourrit la misère humaine?

 

[Marcia]

Mais la question est qui est le vrai charlatan dans cette histoire ? Le journal La Presse génères des millions de dollars de profits avec 2 rubriques : Escortes et salons de massage . Ils sont ceux qui donnent la chanse aux gens de soliciter les clients . Ils sont donc en train de se tirer une balle dans leur propre pied .

Qui est vraiement coupable ?

 

[secrethq1]

Big Daddy Cool, I think you are mad towards Police Force for no reason. It is La Press to be blamed to allow two of their inexperienced and real idiot reporters go out get laid and then come out and talk about their experience on the paper. These two reporters are very racist and have to be sued for their comments on MPs are all run and manage by Asian, eastern European and South Americans people. Also they said on Sunday’s issue that most of the prostitutions that has been cleaned up by police force, now being picked up by MP owners. LOL just out my curiosity I look at La press, the classified section and find out all the MPs who pay $300 to $400 per week in their classified section offer much more than simple HJ. So practically La press shoot their own leg by letting these two jack-ass idiots cut their income by atleast $50,000/month, what ever it translates in to... maybe the salary of 15 employees at La Press. Also it was a great strategy for La press to boost their sale for weekend, since the sale of La Press is in decline by %24 in the last 18 months. The best response to this kind of primitive news that has no base and no content is to not react and let it go.
If these two idiots think just %10 of MPs don't offer HJ, sure they are stupid, cuz from SPA DIVA to AMERI SPA with their ad on their second page, all will give HJ and options or extras or complete or what ever you want to call it. There is no MP in Montreal or any other part of the world will give just a massage they are all in the business and they all perform HJ and it is not a sexual act as they say, it is sensual. Someone has to teach these two idiots the difference between sexual and sensual. I bet these are the same kind of guys who go to MP and ask for the services that SP offers.
I have just one more thing to say ignore these two morons and boycott La press for being so stupid to send two armatures to the field and pay them for their Massage and options. I bet they got lots of options from other places and they won't talk about it. Why do you think they are so hard on Guan Hao? Cuz they are Chinese and can't explain themselves. No talk about French MPs those are more visible on that corner of the town. They are just two prejudice reporters. Already the South Americans congress is preparing to file a law suit against la press for their comments on this issue.

 

[Little Glenn]

L'article est très superficiel et va très peu au fond des choses dans un sujet quand même intéressant. Il auraient dû lire eforum.xxx afin de pouvoir pondre un article autrement plus etoffé.

 

[Lisa G]

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Shark,
They didn't say ALL mp's were run by Asians and East Europeans,they said MOST were,wich is true.They did mention that most of these peoples feared beign arrested if working on the streets,so they opted for safer grounds:massage parlours.
They also visited french-run parlours(Lotus,Abandon.).I'm not sure but I think both those salons are owned and run by Quebecois
Anyway,please let's not make this another ethnic,political,racism or wathever issue ok?PLEEEEEZE!

 

[fancypantsy]

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But why are they so hard especially on Guan Hao? they wrote more details than the others.

 

[kpob53]

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You got to ask the quiestion to the writers yourself.But I seriously doubt they had any racial issues in mind....

 

[brad pitts brother]

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Big Daddy Cool

I don't agree with your view of the police priorities. Quite the contrary, they don't waste much time with the sex trade. Thet know it happens. They read the classified ads and eforum.xxx like you and me. They only intervene when there are complaints (usually from the neighbours) or minors involved.

 

[coolPINKISH]

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Hey Ollie: How do you go "undercover" in a MP?

BTW I like your tag line "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity". I hate the ones that go on for 3 lines or more, making up for very long threads. I think the Mods should limit it to one line in the system. Of course, Maylee's as well is great.

 

[HTacianas_II]

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Was the above post written while under the influence....
Everything spelled out in La Presse is well know by most people...no big surprise!!!
Known by LE for ages!!!
So....no big deal....where is the problem?

 

[luv_yuu_4eva]

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Thanks for your replies guys.
I wish you would understand that even pointing out the nationalities in a general context of an article when it is not a nationality issue is a crime.
Also La Press generalizes the whole massage world by visiting a small corner of our town. Did you also notice their classified section? Most of the MPs if not all are providers of HJ and much more. As far as I know in the past 15 years of my experience there was not a prostitute working in a salon in SPs yes but not in MPs. Also we most of here are real man and know how it works, How could these two reporters get teased 10 times and not took or asked for options... things to make you go hmm... either they are gays or using the original approach of self master of domain play.

 

[Nancy L]

Tout a fait d’accord (du moins en partie) avec Elvis. Mais le journaliste à tout simplement profité d’un petit sujet en apparence anodin pour donner un petit spectacle et épater l’éditeur du journal. Le sujet est des plus superficiel et finalement on ne sait pas où il veut aller.
Je connais autant de Québécoises pure laine que de femmes d’origines étrangères qui font ce métier. C’est très malheureux que l’on fasse porter le chapeau par des femmes émigrées. Je fréquente régulièrement les salons et je n’ai jamais vu de femmes enchaînées faire le métier. Généralement elles font ce métier pour l’argent et parfois pour le plaisir. Non ce ne sont pas des esclaves.
Le problème de cet article est qu’il amènera trop de regards externes et même si l’industrie a besoin d’être épurée il y a risque de voir les puritains et les extrémistes de droites s’y intéresser et le règlementer. Là les bons vont payer pour tous les opportunistes.
En conclusion. J’espère que le tout tombera dans les oubliettes le plus tôt possible.