Reply With QuoteAbout time the govt starts making this legal! Look at Sydney and learn from them QLD!
Hi all
Found this in the CM yesterday. Pam from SS also gets a mentions at the end of the article. Seems like MP's are hitting the headlines or CM's are covering it more.
Magistrate’s blast over massage parlour prostitution
A BRISBANE magistrate has blasted a “distressing prevalence” of prostitution offences amid a series of police raids on massage parlours across the city.
Massage parlour owner Cui Xuguang, 36, is one of the first to be sentenced after police from the state’s prostitution taskforce raided his Rocklea business, on Brisbane’s southside, in March.
Four on prostitution charges after massage parlour raid
The Sunnybank part-time chef and trained accountant was one of three people charged after the raid on the Little Miss Massage parlour on Ipswich Rd.
He appeared before the Holland Park Magistrate Court last week, where Magistrate Simon Young raised a “distressing prevalence of this type of offence in this jurisdiction”.
Mr Young said he had heard at least five such matters in the past four to six weeks.
“Whether or not that’s an increase in the oversight or investigation of the industry or whether or not it’s just the way it works in this area I’m not sure,” he said.
Xuguang was fined $1500 for knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution between January and March.
He had “made a deliberate attempt to circumvent the prostitution laws in the operation of this business,” the court heard.
But the sentence recognised his “modest income” and loss of $45,000 spent buying the business in December last year.
Xuguang’s moment in court came after 25-year-old Miyuki Matsuya was fined $150 for “knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution by another” at the same massage parlour.
Outside court, he told The Courier-Mail he regretted entering the industry as “massage and prostitution” are “mixed up”. “(It’s) hard to separate these two,” he said.
He said the previous owner had signed a contract with the workers prohibiting sexual services. The business was bought off Gumtree, he said.
Xuguang said he assumed if the women did offer such services it was “not my problem.”
He said he realised some staff were offering extra services, but didn’t want to ask for fear he would lose customers. He said he never told staff to offer sexual services.
In another massage parlour raid the same month at The Gap police charged a 32-year-old business owner from Sunnybank Hills with running an unlawful prostitution business.
A 40-year-old woman was also charged.
Meanwhile, another massage parlour owner, East Brisbane Cloud 9 operator Choonhwa “Pam” Lee is defending charges in the Brisbane Magistrate Court of running an illegal prostitution business.
About time the govt starts making this legal! Look at Sydney and learn from them QLD!
Amen to that.
Chill out and loosen up.
To do this, means changes to regulations governing both massage parlours and brothels.
I think that would be better for everyone.
Seems a bit odd, both the one at the Gap and at Rocklea were new. Funny how they just happened to b targeted while the old favs go on their merry way. Theres prob about another half a dozen new shops sprung up since those raids, so certainly not stopping them.
Its a losing battle.
BCC and QLD Gov’t can’t even implement and enforce bike helmet, scooter and alcohol consumption in public laws so fat chance of achieving anything for RnT shops and affected parties.
Rant complete......
$150 fine for the ML, cheaper than a parking ticket ..
Now let that be a deterrent to others who think about engaging in this form of employment.Originally Posted by brownwallaby
Head shake 101.
$150 fine from the court, probably a huge bill from the tax office for undeclared income. Courts are soft but those taxmen are ruthless
She will have to shake a head or two to make the money back.
It's not the 1950's anymore Palaczscuk and Trad. Harmonise with NSW. QLD men and tourists have the coin and demand to fuck. Get out of the way, Government.
Lots of the old favs are far worse in terms of the law.
The gov isn't in the way, there have been legal brothels in Qld for decades. Stop trying to bring your anti gov paranoia into every discussion.
But what's so wrong about getting a htug at a massage parlor? Yet it is banned!
Read the Act. Anything that causes sexual stimulation or gratification is regarded as prostitution.
This includes hjs, i think its the same in NSW but is regulated differently. I know its draconian but at this point in time it is the law. U can also read several cases for and against the law from various interest groups, quite interesting.
"QLD men and tourists have the coin and demand to fuck" - What's so wrong with going to a brothel?
The regulations are there to minimise exploitation and risk of STDs.
Furthermore, most of the whining about Qld is based on the incorrect assumption that it's all legal in NSW/Vic. Read the news, NSW and Vic are also policing illegal brothels in massage shops. Yes there laws are different to our, but they are not as deregulated as you think they are.
Only new shop owners get caught.
The old shops are not.
Hmmmm
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