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James Waghorne
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03/18/04 Who are the horn
dogs who keep Dallas sex spas in business?
You may think I'm some old fuddy duddy for staying on such a tear about all the sex operations in the Walnut Hill to NW Highway
area. My concerns are as much about property values and quality
of life in the area as about morality.
All you have to do is drive down any street where
there's a bath house or "sex spa" to see the impact they have on nearby businesses. Don't assume the
sex spas only go to shabby areas. They go where people already
frequent businesses, and then the area gets shabby because nearby legitimate
businesses start failing and/or move out.
Last year, I was at a lunch meeting. A lady at my table who runs a big
landscape company off Harry Hines near Royal Ln. was ranting
about the prostitution going on in sex spas opening up almost on a daily basis
near her business. She was considering relocating her business and
employees out of Dallas. Her neighborhood business association had
recently met with the woman who was then DPD Deputy Chief over NW Substation to
complain about the problem. The Deputy Chief actually told business owners
at the meeting that the "girls" were better off working in the sex
spas than
"on the streets", that prostitution had always existed and no one can
stop it. Granted that Deputy Chief was a Bolton appointee who was in way
over her head, but it was still a shock. |
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JC:
The zoning issue is secondary at this
point. People wanting sex
doesn't make them perverts, even if you
are just using poetic license.
By not making prostitution legal AND free from regulations, these
types of business will make our neighborhoods slide downhill.
If prostitution was legal and providing a much sought after
service, the houses themselves would have incentive to keep the girls off
the street. Much like
a Greenville Ave eatery would have a push cart
vendor busted.
Compromise is the enemy here. They
can't get rid of these completely because we
operate on a capitalistic/freedom system.
Since we are talking about sex, it's
about time we housed those that want to go that route.
If you have ever been to Vegas where paid sex is legal
outside Las Vegas, police have zero tolerance for any type of "activity"
on the Vegas Strip.
So if it was legalized,
it could be moved to some outside area as the enforcement would be so
intense in the other areas you wouldn't have those business allowed to
open. That's the only way to get it out of
the neighborhood.
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You can imagine how well that went over with the business owners. It's
like saying banks have always been robbed, and no one can stop it!
Neighborhoods near Walnut Hill just East of Brockbank fought a modeling studio
last year called Studio One. That sex spa advertised with pictures of a female
dressed only in a
black leather collar and g-string riding another female similarly attired.
Studio One was not operating under a sexually oriented business (SOB) license. They
had a certificate of occupancy (CO) for a "personal services" business.
Studio One moved out of our area to a more industrial location, but not because
the city cracked down on their obvious SOB operation. They moved because
their building was sold, and the new owner did not want that kind of trash as
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Frank
M. Stich:
You're so
right about prostitution destroying a neighborhood. We've
seen it happen time and time again, but the
DPD Deputy Chief was right as well.
Prostitution is the oldest profession in
the world according to any history you read, no
matter the age in which it was written. It's
always seemed to have been here, and it's always going to be no matter
how how hard you work to stop it.
I just wish we'd get our act
together in this country to do a better job of
managing it. All you have to do is look south
of the border. I remember when I was a youngster going to
Mexico for the first time with my family on
vacation in Laredo. Prostitutes were almost
everywhere you looked in Nuevo
Laredo. By the
time I got to college age, they had opened Boy's
Town, sort of out in the middle of nowhere.
They had it under control, all in one place.
Whether
we like it or not, it's part of reality. We
need to deal with it. Those who want to avail
themselves of these services should be able to, but not in my backyard or
anyone else's who doesn't want to live in Boy's
Town for that matter. It's
the way many European
cities deal with it, and it seems to work...
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Question 1: How does City Hall issue a "personal services" CO to a
sex spa?
Question 2: After the city was furnished copies of Studio One's own
advertisements which promised services of a very intimate nature, why was the
place not shut down immediately?
We asked those questions over a year ago. Now, we ask the same
questions about a new sex spa about to open a block from Studio One's
former home. The new sex spa will be called "Mirage Bath & Spa".
Guess what? They are not licensed as a SOB. They claim City Hall
issued them a CO for a "personal services" business. That makes them the
same thing as a hair salon or nail salon.
Look at these advertisements for Mirage and Sakura. If they are the
equivalent of a hair salon, how come one is butt naked (except for her shoes)?
12/07/04
The perverts at AneMagazine asked that we remove their clipping from
DallasArena.com.
Mike Anderson:
It appears you using a clipping from our
journal w/o permission. I'm am going to kindly ask that you immeidately
remove the add with our company logo from
http://www.dallasarena.com/t040318.htm
cc: John Pickerton - Attorney at law
Thank you,Mike
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Wonder how Chase Bank feels about Mirage using
its name in their advertisement?
Most legitimate day spas who advertise show a client getting a facial or massage
by a uniformed employee. Is butt naked the uniform for the whores who work
in the sex spas?
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Because he represented the Walnut Hill/Royal Ln/Harry Hines area before the
Redistricting Commission did us in, I called Councilman Ed Oakley about the
zoning and legality of issuing a "personal services" CO to these whorehouses. He said he tried to get the ordinance changed to
require workers in any "personal
services" business to be licensed for the service they perform, whether hair
care, nail care, facials or massages, etc. We already require licenses for
hair care. Most legitimate masseuses are licensed. It would not
be a burden for legitimate businesses offering personal services.
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We don't have to
issue a license for "body shampoos". We can tell the whores and
horndogs we don't allow open prostitution in the city limits of Dallas.
Councilman Steve Salazar who now represents the area has asked the City Attorney
to look into this matter.
If you stand in front of the door of Mirage and look East, you see a
residential house just a block away. You can't see it from that spot, but there's an
apartment house even closer where children live. This is just the wrong
place for a very wrong business.
There are so many of these sex spas all over Dallas it makes you wonder if there
are enough horn dogs in this town to keep them all in business. Surely a
few of the perverts who frequent the sex spas can get some woman to have a relationship with them.
Do you actually know any guy who goes to these sex spas? Me either! |
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Amy H:
Who, indeed, are these guys who
keep ?personal services? places in business? Unfortunately, even though you
and I think we don?t know any of them, we probably do. It?s not the kind of
thing people advertise about themselves.
It?s a disgusting situation. Thank
you for keeping the heat on. If there?s ever an organized protest, I trust
you?ll let us all know about it.
Thanks for all your hard work. |
Sex spas are beyond exploitive. They are just vile.
Oh, I know, Wick Allison (publishes D Magazine and North Dallas People, etc.)
thinks Dallas needs a red light district and thinks sex clubs are great for the
city, particularly our convention business. Wick Allison lives in the Park
Cities. He exploits Dallas, but he doesn't sleep in our city limits.
It looks likes NW Dallas must have another demonstration, maybe lots of them
before this gets City Hall's attention. That's not to say Councilman
Salazar is not being responsive because he got right on this when we asked for
his help. The problem is with the City Manager not being focused on the
needs of this city and the people who pay his salary and will pay his very
generous retirement package.
Then, there's the problem in the City Attorney's Office. We need a
proactive City Attorney who comes up with ordinance language to give the council
the authority to clean up the trash operations in this city like all these sex
spas that victimize legitimate businesses we really need near our homes.
Our City Attorney only operates on a crisis to crisis basis. That just
doesn't cut it!
In the case of Mirage, there is a laundromat next to it. With all the
apartments near this shopping center complex/turned billiard halls and sex spa complex, many people would normally use that laundromat.
There are so many children in our area, the DISD has 3 new elementary schools
planned for immediate construction. Unfortunately, our children are mostly
Hispanic and don't have much clout at City Hall.
We like having lots of small businesses available to fix our shoes, clean our
clothes, repair our broken stuff. They cannot stay in business next to a
sex club of any nature. When they move out, we will have to spend our
money in Farmers Branch or Carrollton.
Surprisingly, I am optimistic Councilmen Salazar and Oakley will get something
done about this spreading cancer of bath houses and sex spas. Councilman
Oakley is very knowledgeable zoning matters, and Councilman Salazar is still
trying to show his critics that he is taking his job very seriously this time.
We also have Rafael Anchia as our State Representative-Elect. As a lawyer
and an advocate for education and Dallas children, I am sure he will work on
legislation in Austin to require licenses for anyone who physically touches
someone else and gets paid for it. Requiring licenses for women who work
in sex spas will dry up most of them because many of the women are
undocumented aliens who can't get a license because they are not here legally.
The sex spas that the DPD closed on Royal Ln. a few months ago for prostitution
were typical of how they operate and who works in them.
You know what goes on in sex spas. The city knows what goes on in sex
spas. What we don't know --
Who are all the horn dogs who keep the
sex spas open?
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