Police have closed down 34 massage parlors in the last two years in an attempted crackdown on a thriving illegal sex trade, a local official said yesterday.
| That's... ummm... divide by 11... carry the six... 17 a year. A little over one a month... |
âWe have closed 34 massage parlors that violated the law in the last two years. Of those we closed some were licensed while others were not and so they were closed,â Muhammad Hilal Al-Muroushedi, director of the compliance division of the department of economic development, told AFP. According to Dubai legislation, a massage for a male must be carried out by a male and a massage for a woman must be performed by a woman.
| Eeewwww! That's perverted... |
Al-Muroushedi said that spot checks on parlors showed that law was being violated and additional services were being offered after the massage.
| What... kind of "additional services"? Heh heh... |
Most of the women arrested and later deported came in on visas as part of tour guide companies, or posing as tourists, mostly from China. |