A group of massage therapists in Florida have been arrested amid claims they offered to perform sex acts to undercover detectives during a two-day sting dubbed ‘Operation Skin So Soft’.
During the two-day operation, which began this past Monday, undercover detectives went to 22 different Asian massage parlors around Polk County to get massages from licensed therapists.
But 20 of those women – who are all from the Republic of China – offered sex acts to the detectives completely unprompted.
One of the women arrested was said to have ‘tried to have full sex’ with the detective even after he denied her advances.
The name given to the sting – ‘Operation Skin So Soft’ – was inspired by a compliment given to an undercover officer while they were auditing the massage parlors.
This caught my eye because I lived in Taiwan for some time and because cases like this are usually not so large or so prominently displayed in the news, near top of first page of DM. Everyone in the photo is an adult. But it is often the case that sex-workers in East Asia, and probably most of the world, are sold into the profession when they are young by their parents or ‘guardians’, or otherwise forced or enticed into it at an age when they are much too young to understand the consequences. Consider 8 year-old drag queens performing in front of adult audiences in USA in this light. It used to be in Taiwan that parents ‘sold’ their children into sex-work by signing contracts that paid them while indenturing their children. Not sure what the story in Taiwan is today. Could be the same. What do the USA parents of an 8 year-old drag queen get? ABN
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