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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Nashville Massage Parlors: Our Back Pages: This Week in Print Over the Years

26 10 2009

The former heart of Nashville’s tourist business is now overrun with adult movie houses, bookstores and massage parlors.
Lower Broad’s clientele had gone from rhinestone-studded to rough since the Opry moved out to Opryland three years earlier from the venerable Ryman Auditorium:
The Ryman remains open for tours, but a reporter recently counted 10 adult movie houses, bookstores or massage parlors within three blocks.In fact, the Adult Mini Cinema is right across the street from the Ryman. A sign in the window says: “Hi, for open-minded adults we have fiery films, magazines, paperbacks [and] novelties, but you must be 18 to enter.”Roy Acuff, “the king of country music,” owns one of the buildings housing an adult bookstore. He says there’s nothing he can do because the person he leased to subleased.

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Nashville Massage Parlors: Green Hills Resident Arrested On Prostitution Charges

16 07 2009

Green Hills Resident Arrested On Prostitution Charges
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Green Hills woman faces prostitution charges after police said she ran an erotic massage service out of her home.
Police arrested Veronica Wright after an undercover investigation. Detectives said Wright had placed ads for ‘Holistic Massage’ in a weekly newspaper.
A police operative booked an appointment and said Wright would charge $70 for a massage and then charge an additional $100 to perform a sex act. 
Records found in the home showed Wright had a number of clients. She was arrested back in 2008 for operating a similar business from a home on Kimbark Drive in Green Hills.

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