Nashville Massage Parlors: March massage regulation vote planned in Bibb

17 02 2010

Melody Wright said she was working as a prostitute in a Nashville, Tenn., massage parlor when the city shut down 21 of the businesses in one day.“It saved my life,” said Wright, now a Lizella grocery-store worker, who was one of about 40 people asking Bibb County commissioners Tuesday to regulate the county’s illicit massage parlors out of existence.

A woman who answered the phone at the Soft Hands massage parlor Tuesday said there was no one at the business who could offer a response.
That business was targeted in 2008 raids, when Macon police made 28 arrests at 11 massage parlors in a few months. The Telegraph could not obtain Tuesday the status of the criminal charges from Soft Hands.

Wright said she’d been locked in a cycle of drugs and prostitution while working in Nashville and Las Vegas massage parlors.

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