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City’s idea rubs the wrong way
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First posted: Thursday, October 13, 2011 08:12 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, October 13, 2011 08:14 PM EDT
We’re sure not even Mayor Rob Ford’s political opponents have a vision for the future of Toronto that includes hundreds more massage parlours.
Therefore it should be easy to deal with a city staff proposal to increase Toronto’s licensed body rubs from 25 to “several hundred” by early next year.
That is, receive it, file it, forget it.
Toronto has a $740-million hole in its 2012 operating budget to address. Any additional revenue from licensing more body rubs will quickly be eaten up by the increased government bureaucracy and police presence needed to deal with a sudden explosion of them.
If body rubs — with their attendant social problems including prostitution, sleazy clientele, petty crime and drug use were popular, every neighbourhood would want one. In reality, neighbourhoods that do have them tend to want them closed.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

Giorgio Mammoliti says licensing massage parlours will make City Hall “the biggest pimps in North America”
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Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti (Ward 7, York West) is reliably one of the more bombastic councillors in Toronto—this is the guy who started a Facebook group and promised to ferret out any Communists who showed up in the comments threads, after all. His latest outrage is a city proposal to increase the number of massage parlours licensed in the city. According to the Toronto Sun:
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That means that Mammoliti’s problem with the illicit sex work that goes on in these massage parlours isn’t that the city would be “North America’s biggest pimp” (that would be true if he got his way, too) but because it’s happening in areas throughout the city, instead of in one concentrated place. There’s actually public health reasons to suspect that Mammoliti’s preferred approach would be better for the city and for women in these businesses, but it’s going to take a Supreme Court decision before we know whether it’s even possible.

See the full article from “Open File (blog)”

People should know that some of these massage parlours may be coming to their community real soon, he said. We will do everything we can to stop the process.
Some of the clubs, that are also listed as spas or salons, offer massage services on the Internet with a series of near-naked female attendants who are offering a range of sexual services for a price. Police have said many are a front for prostitution. Bruce Robertson, acting director municipal licensing and standards, said no final agreement has been reached.
Right now, we are exploring options to address the illegal body rub parlours, Robertson said on Wednesday. No recommendations have been finalized or formalized.
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There are now more about 400 licensed holistic centres and 25 massage parlours in Toronto, he said.
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Tim Lambrinos, of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada, said increasing the number of massage parlours will further drive prostitution indoors.

See the full article from “CANOE”

TORONTO - 
Handing out more licences to massage parlours will go a long way to securing the safety of prostitues that may be working in such places, said a leading voice in the sex trade.
“It would give bylaw officers access to these body rub parlours so they could go in and make sure there are no cases of exploitation,” Sex Professionals of Canada executive director Nikki Thomas said in reaction to a staff committee at City Hall suggesting increasing the number of permits given to massage parlours in Toronto. “From our perspective, this is a good thing.”
Unlicensed body-rub parlours are rife with exploitation, Thomas said — exploitation that could include a parlour pressuring girls to perform unprotected sex or undesirable sex acts, or workers having their identification and whereabouts controlled.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

… People should know that some of these massage parlours may be coming to their community real soon,” he said. “We will do everything we can to stop the process.”
Some of the clubs, that are also listed as spas or salons, offer massage services on the Internet with near-naked female attendants who are offering a range of sexual services for a price. Police have said many are a front for prostitution. Bruce Robertson, acting director of municipal licensing and standards, said no final agreement has been reached.
“Right now, we are exploring options to address the illegal body rub parlours,” Robertson said on Wednesday. “No recommendations have been finalized or formalized.”
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There are now more about 400 licensed holistic centres and 25 massage parlours in Toronto, he said.
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Tim Lambrinos, of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada, said increasing the number of massage parlours will further drive prostitution indoors.

See the full article from “CANOE”

Just an example of the website of one of Toronto’s 25 licensed massage parlours.
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For $80, a male client can step through the doors of the Alpha Care spa and receive an hour-long, “full-body erotic message” from 20-year-old Lexi, a busty woman dressed in fishnet stockings, towering stilettos and a thong.
For twice that amount, her colleague, “Vanessa,” will join in for the massage parlour’s “ultimate duos” feature.
Alpha Care Erotic Massage, located in the Finch Ave. W. and Dufferin St. area, advertises itself as “licensed by the city of Toronto for over 15 years.”
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The councillor, who has long called for the exile of illegal massage parlours (known as rub ‘n’ tugs) from residential areas, said increasing the permits for such places will fan the fires of prostitution, exploitation and crime – all things, said Mammoliti, that both they and some licensed body-rub parlours already foster.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

The first exhibit of the hike, Ascension, was a massive video projection of a cathedral’s hallways installed within the Metropolitan United Church. Though it seems simple, the exhibit explored the concept of “infinity”; the video made participants feel as though they were walking through an endless hall — though they were standing still — and the electric music combined with the room’s acoustics greatly emphasized the church’s architecture and majesty.  
The hike continued at Nathan Phillips Square, which contained two main exhibits. Flightpath Toronto was made up of two rideable zip lines stretched through the skies, representing a future with new means of airborne transportation, and opening our minds to exciting new possibilities where the ordinary is made extraordinary. Through the Gorilla Glass was a favourite of the group; a sculpture of mechanical arms that waved according to the way participants push and pull its endpoints, similar to our own interactions with the world.
“You push it down and you see how your action creates a reaction through the rest of it,” said participant Petrina Vrazinis.
McLuhan’s Massage Parlour consisted of four screens surrounding the viewer, showing various pages, pictures and quotes from McLuhan’s book The Medium is the Massage. 

See the full article from “The Catholic Register”

Apparently, in order to incorporate a business in Romania, a background check is required. In Marcu’s case, that meant two background checks, one for each country. He began the process while living in Romania with his wife and son, where he decided that his job as a bank manager was keeping him from his true destiny as a porn mogul.  
“His Romanian police clearance took two days,” reported the Sun. “The RCMP website warned their wait time was 12 weeks and outlined the steps necessary—all of which Marcu says he followed.”
Instead of three months, however, the RCMP took shy of a year to process, during which time Marcu was unable to start his business and going through his savings like a drunken sailor in a strange port. Marcu had planned to open an “e-commerce-based company that imports sex health products from Canada, sex toys and ice wine, along with the production of adult films, sales and erotic massage services,” but by the time the clearance came through it was too late; the window of opportunity had closed for good.

See the full article from “AVN News (press release)”

With his bleached blond hair, the 38-year-old sits in the corner of his tiny room and bemoans the bureaucracy that dashed a dream that began when he was just a child. “In Grade 1 I saw a porn magazine from Denmark and I wanted to be like those guys,” he insists with a laugh. “It’s all about love, that’s what I like.”
Hmm, love. Who knew?
Instead of pursuing a career as a sex pinup, Marcu got a degree in business administration and worked as a bank manager. But as a “hobby”, he posed for nude photos and made amateur porn films with his friends and when he moved back to Romania a few years ago with his wife and son, he decided to pursue his calling in the sex business.
According to his statement of claim, Marcu planned to open an “e-commerce-based company that imports sex health products from Canada, sex toys and ice wine, along with the production of adult films, sales and erotic massage services.”

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

He has a violent criminal history, including weapons offences, sexual assaults against children and in 1998, he was convicted for being the pimp of a 19-year-old woman.
He was also known to police for procuring a 15-year-old in 1989.
Police consider him dangerous and a high-risk to re-offend.
In 1998, Ontario’s highest court heard Burton was part of a three-person pimping crew, led by a then-lawyer, that threatened and abused teen prostitutes.
A Toronto Police special victims detective who didn’t want to be named because of undercover work said the suspect apparently is working through a number of motels across the city.
“A lot of it is motels,” the officer said.
The detective said police also focused on a storefront that appeared to be massage parlour in the downtown core “but it was just set up to look that way.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”