MPs, unlike providers, don't do any screening. They usually take walk-ins. This puts them at more risk for a bust, and thus calling attention to them on a site like TER is a bad idea IMO.
It's an especially bad idea I think to post reviews of massage therapists who work in legit massage establishments and who happen to go "above and beyond" for some clients at least. Even if it's something like taking her top off and allowing DIY, that's enough to get her license revoked in many jurisdictions. Again, they're not doing screening, at least not like a provider would do. It's really irresponsible to include in the review a link to the spa's web site, which I know is required for the review to be published but it usually includes info like the address of the place and full-face photos of the therapists. And the therapist probably has no idea she's been "outed" in a review. She probably doesn't even know TER exists.-- Modified on 1/24/2017 3:45:32 PM
I have been exploring local AMP locations for possibilities (around Denver), as such was looking at review sites, though I didn't sign up for any of them...
To me it seems like you would be able to figure out if a place offers possibilities for extras or not from a single visit, and the worst that can happen is you just get a nice massage without extras.
So that said, is it a good idea to post reviews of massage parlors on review sites? I hesitate to post reviews of places at a fixed location because it seems like it would help LE come down on them. Reading through the forums of at least one review site it seemed the the number of reviews may have dried up for that reason...
I would like to help others by indicating what happened at places I tried but don't want to get any of the places in trouble.
MPs, unlike providers, don't do any screening. They usually take walk-ins. This puts them at more risk for a bust, and thus calling attention to them on a site like TER is a bad idea IMO.
It's an especially bad idea I think to post reviews of massage therapists who work in legit massage establishments and who happen to go "above and beyond" for some clients at least. Even if it's something like taking her top off and allowing DIY, that's enough to get her license revoked in many jurisdictions. Again, they're not doing screening, at least not like a provider would do. It's really irresponsible to include in the review a link to the spa's web site, which I know is required for the review to be published but it usually includes info like the address of the place and full-face photos of the therapists. And the therapist probably has no idea she's been "outed" in a review. She probably doesn't even know TER exists.
-- Modified on 1/24/2017 3:45:32 PM
Another factor is that, unlike a provider who travels to clients or tucks herself away in a discreet hotel room or apartment, a massage parlor is sitting there visible in a fixed location, and usually the municipal government where it is located has an eye on it and is under political pressure not to let "vice" flourish in the neighborhood. So it's kind of vulnerable at the best of times.