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Whoretown
Somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania, near Wilkes Barre and Scranton, is a place that I call Whoretown.
It's not that I was shocked that there were massage parlors there. No, what surprised me is that they have huge billboards on the highway - route 84, if you were planning to check it out.
We were driving through Pennsylvania last Friday to attend a wedding, and my jaw dropped when I saw the first of the billboards. They were enormous.
The Gentlemen's Club 10
Serenity Massage
Total Indulgence III
Elite Spa Massage
Ultimate Massage II
Natura Massage
And some of them featured head shots of what I guess are supposed to be the masseuses, all of them looking like porn actresses with their mouths in a suggestive "O".
(I once read that lipstick was first worn by ancient Babylonian prostitutes as a way to advertise that they offered oral sex services, but I can't find anything online to back that up.)
I'm an innocent guy, so I had to give the billboards the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they really offered just honest massages, and nothing more. But I was curious, so when we reached Teri's father's house I asked him. He'd know; he was a truck driver, and had lived in PA for a long time.
"Let me put it this way:" he said, "truckers go there."
Amazing!
It's not that I was shocked that there were massage parlors there. No, what surprised me is that they have huge billboards on the highway - route 84, if you were planning to check it out.
We were driving through Pennsylvania last Friday to attend a wedding, and my jaw dropped when I saw the first of the billboards. They were enormous.
The Gentlemen's Club 10
Serenity Massage
Total Indulgence III
Elite Spa Massage
Ultimate Massage II
Natura Massage
And some of them featured head shots of what I guess are supposed to be the masseuses, all of them looking like porn actresses with their mouths in a suggestive "O".
(I once read that lipstick was first worn by ancient Babylonian prostitutes as a way to advertise that they offered oral sex services, but I can't find anything online to back that up.)
I'm an innocent guy, so I had to give the billboards the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they really offered just honest massages, and nothing more. But I was curious, so when we reached Teri's father's house I asked him. He'd know; he was a truck driver, and had lived in PA for a long time.
"Let me put it this way:" he said, "truckers go there."
Amazing!