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Good morning, Washington. We're getting off to a late start this holiday week morning, which is really just as well, since there's not too much local news to report anyway. But let's get the ball rolling with a few stories ...
- Police have shut down yet another brothel operation in Glover Park. This time, it's the Venus Spa at 2352 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Where oh where will the guys who work at the Russian embassy go for sex now?!
- Karin Brulliard at the Post takes a look at how area Pakistanis are reacting to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto yesterday.
- Apparently Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has pissed off the Unification Church/Abstinence-Only education people. Well done, Chancellor Rhee!
- The D.C. Department of Health is investigating a possible case of TB at Georgetown University.
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When the city is shutting down a brothel the Washington Post calls that area "Glover Park." But when a new flex-fuel station comes in there (350 feet north of the brothel) the paper calls the area "Georgetown."Poor Glover Park. Always getting the short end of the stick.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that same massage parlor closed last year for giving happy endings? Did it reopen under a new name? Or did it move down a few doors?
I like the irony of a massage parlor being only a few dozen feet from two stripclubs. The Russian, Chinese and Iranian diplomats have a sweet work environment. Other than representing authoritarian regimes, of course.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that same massage parlor closed last year for giving happy endings? Did it reopen under a new name? Or did it move down a few doors?
I like the irony of a massage parlor being only a few dozen feet from two stripclubs. The Russian, Chinese and Iranian diplomats have a sweet work environment. Other than representing authoritarian regimes, of course.
These people that have their knickers in a twist do realize this massage parlor was on the same strip as JP's and Good Guys right? Not to minimize prostitution and the unsavory stuff that goes along with it, but sleazy guys giving money to naked women while getting drunk may be contributing to the "unsavory element" that the good citizens of Glover Park are so concerned about.
As a Georgetown alum, I know that just because you're from a wealthy family (like the lion's share of GU students) does not mean you have good hygene, or for that matter, the understanding of how not to contract TB.
Decriminalize prostitution! Treat prostitutes like every other worker and provide regular medical testing.
Decriminalize prostitution! Treat prostitutes like every other worker and provide regular medical testing.
Decriminalize prostitution! Treat prostitutes like every other worker and provide regular medical testing.
Actually, I don't think there have been many complaints by the neighborhood about the behavior of Good Guys or JP's Nightclub, its employees, or its patrons. Both places know that if there is any egregiously bad behavior by its patrons, Jim Graham will be mugging for the cameras about how we desperately need to revoke the liquor licenses of these horrible establishments, knock down the buildings, and salt the earth under their foundations so that they shall never be rebuilt.
And, to my cranky mind least, there is a HUGE difference between being a stripper and working as a prostitute in a supposed massage parlor/spa. If you're a stripper, you know what you're getting yourself into from the get-go. For workers in these massage parlors, oftentimes they are illegal immigrants forced to work as prostitutes by their smugglers and facing various threats if they refuse.
Plus, as noted with the Jim Graham reference, strip clubs are under pretty tough scrutiny for what goes on inside and outside the club. No such scrutiny exists for these massage parlors.
Furthermore, my wife is ok with me going to Good Guys. She would not be so cool with me going to happy ending massage parlors. Hence, stripclubs = yeah; massage parlors = nay.
Cranky - I hear ya. But when the neighbors are crying a river of salty tears about their family friendly environment being corrupted and railing against an "unsavory element" in the neighborhood, it strikes me as a little myopic to concentrate on a place that probably had little or no signage and a clientèle that had every reason to try and be discreet when coming (no pun intended) and going.
True enough Hillrat. I think, however, that residents have governmental avenues to pursue against the strip clubs (calls to the ABC Board, calls to MPD, calls to Jim Graham, etc.) that they don't have against the massage parlors.
And, I believe both clubs donate good amounts of money to local neighborhood organizations (as well as local politicos). That goes a long way in being neighborly, even if your business features naked girls hanging from poles on the ceiling.
Cranky, no problem with the patrons? Usually, but let's not forget Mr Douse the Manager with Gasoline and Set Him on Fire. He took the cake for unsavory.
And Jim Graham? Apparently loves strip clubs, he's moving them all over the city from the displacement with the stadium, no?
True, Stu. But that was the only time that I'm aware of something violent occuring outside GoodGuys. Had Good Guys not had a stellar reputation, Jimbo would have been on the case for shutting the place down.
And I believe Graham's strib club relocation program was shot down by the city council.