Whoretown

[bobquasit]

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!

Comments

[lubedpumpkin.livejournal.com]

From good ol Wiki:

Lipstick does not have a particular origin. However, it is known to have been used around 5000 years ago in ancient Babylon, when semi-precious jewels were crushed and applied to the lips and occasionally around the eyes. Ancient Egyptians extracted purplish-red dye from fucus-algin, 0.01% iodine, and some bromine mannite, which resulted in serious illness. Cleopatra had her lipstick made from crushed carmine beetles, which gave a deep red pigment, and ants for a base. Lipsticks with shimmering effects were initially made using a substance found in fish scales called pearlescence.

Queen Victoria declared makeup vulgar because prostitutes were usually the only ones who painted their faces. It was also forbidden to wear makeup before marriage, lest a woman trick her husband into thinking she was beautiful, only to discover she was not.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Way back in Ancient Times (the mid-seventies) I lived in the Denver Metro and I recall a fuss about "massage parlors." There was a comment that in the paper that, well, kinda makes sense to me: "It keeps the perverts off the streets." :)

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

they have nude strippers advertised in GA to FL i cant remember the name of the place but there is one on every exit..

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

and also not far from where i used to live in ky there was a masage parlor busted for that like ten years ago

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I was fascinated by the whole thing; I kept craning around to look at every billboard, and I was writing down the names of the massage places (for inclusion here, NOT because I was planning on visiting any of them). But at the same time it all made me kind of sad. The reality of stripping and prostitution depress me very much - the consequences of my puritan upbringing.

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

i stripped for awhile but the whole scene at the club was bad. and there wasnt any other clubs to strip at so i quit when a fellow stripper od'd on drugs and i saw my boss tell them to get rid of her and get her away from here. and then when i saw the bodygaurd whom was telling this guy that tried to rape a stipper that he had to leave but could come back tomorrow.. i was only doing it for extra money since we had just moved there and it was always a fantasy of mine.. but like i said i didnt do it long.. because after awhile no matter how clean cut you are in following the rules you still feel dirty.. at least for me..