2011年6月16日星期四

there is a neon MASSAGE sign over the pizza chain outlet

there is a neon MASSAGE sign over the pizza chain outlet

Around here, there is a neon MASSAGE sign over the pizza chain outlet. There is one between the veterinary clinic and the Polish bakery. There is one over the throw-pillow store and another above the manicurists across the street from the throw-pillow store. There seems to be one near the florist's that makes funeral wreaths, but that place is actually a Chinese medical clinic that might now be cursing its signage as people increasingly come in looking for happy endings quite different from welltonified liver chi.

I did a tour yesterday. I visited four but only two were open for business, it being noon on a Wednesday. At the one between the vet's and the Polish bakery, which advertises everything from shiatsu to leg waxing on its opaque storefront, I was greeted by a woman with an unctuous Eastern European accent in a transparent white minidress and platform mules.It was pretty much the same thing at the next one, right down to the smell, something like strawberry incense mixed with male effluvium, except the woman was Filipina. Walking out, I thought of a party I attended, briefly, a few summers ago. My husband and I were invited to the country home of a person in the entertainment industry that we barely knew, only a few kilometres from our own country place. We drove through a long private gravel road lined with cedars to a property on a hill, and found, within minutes of arrival, that we had driven straight into the centre of a full-blown swinger's scene. You think you are going to an old French Canadian impresario's pool-side cocktail and find yourself in some key party Oz.

The swinger's scene itself was not the fascinating thing to me. (It was all pretty unattractive. We left very fast. There might have been some actual sprinting involved.) It was more the scene's placement, which brought the idea that behind any bunch of plain old cedars you can find any number of unexpected things, a roiling undercurrent of decadence twitching behind hedges.

That's not a bad vibe to live with.The sale runs throughout June and July offering up to 70% discounts on fashion jewellery and accessories in retail outlets across the country Adds spice to country living. And similarly, I'd say "why not?" to the boom of exotic parlours around here -cupcakes overground; cheesecake underground -because quite frankly this district could use some edge. The problem is that the establishments in question represent a problem. Because as seedy as the redlight district may have seemed to some of those passing it on their way to the office, it contained a kind of safety for those working in it. For sex workers, the district was community, both policed and selfpoliced.It is meet all of the world women's jewellery fantasies and desires with the sensual beauty and soft but delicate sensibility design. The tiny place above the throw cushion shop in west-end doggieland? It might seem like a safer neighbourhood, but for sex work, it isn't.Using silicone rubber selection in various applications is a challenge to fabricators. Because nobody is checking here. That Eastern European woman in the see-through mini? The Filipina? They were both completely alone. Anything could happen to them.

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