Not your children.

Ever since I was in high school and my cousin got arrested for burning down a whore house for fun, I've had an interest in prostitutes. Just, everything in that world is mysterious to me and I like mystery.

Living near Philly has definitely peaked my interest in prostitution, and I've done lots of research such as going through Philly apartment listings just to read the stories of tenants living next to whore houses and whatnot. But recently my interest has been moved to my own town. I'm incredibly intrigued by our little rub and tug which is right up the street from me, with a sign that reads "Healing Hands Day Spa." I didn't even really think about it until Kevin's coworker informed us that he bought a hand job at a rub and tug in Doylestown and his friend bought sex.

My first thought was "ew herpes" and my second thought was "Hmm.. interesting."

So, after some recent in-depth research, I learned a lot, such as what "TS" means. Anyway, these men make it a hobby. They travel all over the place to get anything from hand jobs to blow jobs to sex. They have wives and they lie and they don't consider it "cheating." They have rules to follow about what to do if there is a police raid and they have websites where they rate "massage parlors" and give recommendations on which ladies to pick and which ladies to avoid. Some have ladies that they are clearly in love with, posting things like "if anyone fucks with her, they're gonna hear from me," and some have ladies that they bash and tease for having less than perfect bodies. It's all about finding a "hot, attractive, sexy" girl that gives what they want. Also, they give warnings about which places have ladies with diseases. It's insane.

The worst part is that a lot of these women are held there against their will. For Russian rub and tugs, the women are all lined up and the guys pick the one they want, and none of these women are there because they want to be. It's not always true for the Asian ones, but it is still a big possibility. When reading about it on a message board, some men say they leave the place if it looks suspicious, but some men said they don't care at all if the women are being held captive.

I'm not going to lie. I want to visit one. Just walk in, look around, leave. But knowing my luck, that would be on the day of the police raid. So I'll never do it. I read the blog of one women who went into one once. She explained it as having women dressed in tiny costumes with a really bad smell surrounding the room and menus smeared with suspicious liquids.

Speaking of which, it's funny to read the descriptions of these places from the men. For instance, there's this one place in which there are no rooms, however, there are only curtains like an emergency room. He said that it's annoying because "you can hear your loudmouth neighbor." At another place the "shower" doesn't work so you can hear two or three people having sex at a time. (I guess they use a shower to drown out the noise?)

Anyway, I'm babbling so let me end this by saying one more thing. I went to a message board of a bunch of rub and tug regulars and there was an extremely upset women who posted the same thing about a dozen times. She just divorced her husband because he had been going to rub and tugs behind her back regularly and the message boards were a way for him to figure out all of the information about them. She basically was saying that it was a sick website that encouraged and enabled her husband to ruin their marriage.

I felt so bad for her. My heart sank. I wonder how many marriages are ruined from this. And I wonder how many of these couples have children. I can understand to an extent disrespecting your wife... but not your children.