Seattle Massage Parlors: Wash. man gets 4 years for prostitution ring

Posted on July 31st, 2009 in Seattle massage parlors by massageseattle

Last updated July 30, 2009 4:53 p.m. PT
Wash. man gets 4 years for prostitution ring
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — A former Bellevue man who forced at least three women into prostitution has been sentenced to a little more than four years in prison.
Chomphoonut Dongird, 52, ran three massage parlors in the Seattle area. Prosecutors said he brought women from Thailand and California to work for him from 2005 to last year, and forced some to engage in prostitution to pay him back. He also arranged sham marriages, charging the women thousands of dollars to enable them to remain in the U.S.
Dongird pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to transport individuals in furtherance of prostitution. The government is seeking to have him pay $150,000 in restitution to two of the women forced to perform the sex acts.

See the full article from “Seattle Post Intelligencer”

Seattle Strip Clubs: Seattle is so nice

Posted on July 31st, 2009 in Seattle strip clubs by stripclubbouncer

Since arriving from NW Indiana almost 19 years ago, I’ve noticed a chill in the local social climate.  Seattleites are polite.  Even nice!  But a lot of Seattleites are not easy to get to know in the long term because they’re guarded; protective of their personal space.  The “cool shoulder” a lot of Seattleites feel in their attempts to initiate long term social intimacy, the “Seattle freeze,” has been discussed by local publications and authors Seattle Times and Knute Berger, among others.
On October 4 2005, the Seattle City Council approved stricter regulations on strip clubs, requiring dancers to stay four feet from patrons and disallowing dancers to take money directly from the patrons.  In addition, the clubs must be as well lit as a parking-garage and provide no private rooms.  
This is ironic because the Lusty Lady on 1st Avenue remains in the heart of what used to be known as “Flesh Avenue.”  From the late 19th century to the early 80s, Flesh Avenue featured topless clubs, adult bookstores, theaters showing sexually explicit movies, and prostitution!  

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

Seattle Strip Clubs: Yahoo, not Google, loses in deal

Posted on July 30th, 2009 in Seattle strip clubs by stripclubbouncer

A full blown recession has hit, and while it makes sense to have a viable competitor to Google, it’s like wishing for AT&T mobile phones to not drop calls. Most people have given up on the notion and figured out how to live their lives instead of hoping for something that will most likely not happen, or at least something that would happen in a time frame to make a difference.
Even the announcement of the two companies entering into a ten-year pact won’t happen right away, and there is no guarantee that it will still happen once the companies start down the road of integration. It’s hard enough to get three people to agree how to work let alone companies with tens of thousands with no history of working together. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being the ease with which a stripper can part a man with his money and ten being negotiating a piece deal in the Middle East, having this deal realize more than the current sum of their two parts, tips in favor of the right half of that scale.

See the full article from “ADOTAS”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: Local teen tackles tough issues in ‘RENT: School Edition’ starting …

Posted on July 30th, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

July 30, 2009 By Chantelle Lusebrink
NEW — Noon, July 29, 2009
Local teen Andrew Lee, 15, of Newcastle, is stepping out and tackling tough issues in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s “RENT: School Edition.”
Every summer, the theater’s professionals step aside to make room for aspiring young actors, directors and musicians on the stage.
Andrew has been acting for some time, but it is the first time he has performed with SCT.
“I love to sing and I’ve been doing it since choir in fifth grade, but I guess it just transformed into theater,” he said.
The show does censor some language used in the original production of “RENT,” but doesn’t shy away from tackling the tough issues the show is intended to examine, like prostitution, drugs, gay and lesbian issues, and AIDS.

See the full article from “Newcastle News”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron

Posted on July 30th, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

Oh, how tedious it is, earning a living! Still, never mind. By way of compensation, he was allowed to wear his vest (his shoulders, which slope like the Matterhorn, are an endless source of fascination) whenever he liked, the only exception being when he was required to put on some ghastly felt version of Albanian national costume.
He was also allowed to insult everyone in sight when he attended a party at the British embassy in Istanbul. He had some amusing line of Byron’s about the Turks and sodomy that it pleased him to repeat over and over, like a small boy who has just learned a rude word. At tea with a Portuguese call girl, whom he met on the spurious grounds that the traveller Byron particularly relished sex with Spanish prostitutes, he asked: “Who [which nationality] has the biggest penises?” Good question, Rupert! This is exactly the kind of thing that, throwing down my hastily annotated copy of Don Juan, I liked to ask my tutor at college.

See the full article from “New Statesman”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: Christina Patterson: Oh, the delights – and dangers – of charm

Posted on July 30th, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

On Monday night, a contemporary sex symbol celebrated the life and loves of a spiritual brother. Byron, said Rupert Everett in a Channel 4 film, In Search of Byron, was “the first modern sex symbol”, the “first international celebrity” and “one of the earliest practitioners of PR”. He was also a rather good poet, but the poetry, it soon became clear, was not Everett’s chief concern.
Poetry tends not to lend itself to glorious shots of your muscled torso, rising, like Botticelli’s Venus, from a bubble bath, or your lean buttocks, being pummelled in a hammam, or your fine biceps primed for swimming the Hellespont (which, rather humiliatingly, you don’t actually manage). Poetry tends not to lend itself to giggles with Turkish prostitutes about the size of Brazilian men’s willies or exchanges with ambassadors about the Turkish predilection for “sodomy and sherbert”.

See the full article from “Independent”

Seattle Strip Clubs: Guys extreme adventures in Washington.

Posted on July 29th, 2009 in Seattle strip clubs by stripclubbouncer

Guys extreme adventures in Washington.
After my recent post about ” mancations”, I couldn’t stop thinking whether guy’s vacations should be just booze and strippers, “soft” adventures like biking, rafting, skydiving or something they will remember for a long, long time. I spent some time on the net and found some unbelievable adventures. Here are just a few of them: driving WWII tank, flying in a fighter jet, driving Formula 1 racing car, becoming a firefighter , special/covert/sea operations agent, piloting a submarine and more.
Everything from extreme adventures to extremely bizarre, like “pirate hunting” vacations to those interested in wielding AK-47’s and shooting at pirates off the coast of Somalia ( just US$5,000+ AK-47’s and ammunition available for rent each day).
Do we have anything that even remotely as extreme as those adventures in Washington State? Not quite, but here are a few ideas:

See the full article from “Seattle Post Intelligencer”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: The Scandalous Adventures Of Lord Byron C4

Posted on July 28th, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

Everett, the first presenter to strip off every five minutes since the heyday of Judith Chalmers, was tracing the route of the scandal-laden first European tour of esteemed poet Lord Byron, a man who “captures all the glamour of the human condition from the gutter to the gods”. Not for nothing has he been described as the Britney Spears of his generation.
In his travels to the continent, Byron got up to so many duvet-based shenanigans the only wonder was he didn’t return cross-eyed. Described by Everett as “the first modern sex symbol”, pre-dating Tommy Steele by several decades, he was “Britain’s first international celebrity with a vanity and sexual appetite of a rock star”. Regularly did he appear on the front of Ye News Of Ye Worlde.
Byron landed first in the louche southern city of Lisbon, famed for its bars and bordellos. There he “greedily experimented” with actresses, servant girls, and prostitutes, before moving on to the tapas.

See the full article from “Stoke & Staffordshire”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: Why are there so many motels on Aurora Avenue?

Posted on July 27th, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

If a street could get an award for most motels, it would likely go to Aurora Avenue. Why? From at least 1913, Aurora Avenue was the major north-south arterial through Seattle for travelers en route north to Canada and south to California. In the 1920s, roadhouses and inns for weary car travelers became the most familiar feature of the strip. But the motel-ificication really took off in 1962 when the world was beating a path to Seattle’s door to see the wonders of Century 21, otherwise known as the Seattle World’s Fair. With Mom, Dad and the kids packed into the station wagon, and dog-tired from crossing the plains on the nation’s primitive interstate system, the motels on Aurora with their kitschy neon signs and ample parking seemed like a home-away-from home. In later years, the same motels have welcomed prostitutes and the temporarily homeless along with other travelers, and Aurora Avenue continues to be a well-traveled route and a well-worn place to rest for the night.

See the full article from “Seattle Post Intelligencer”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: Colacurcio, associates plead not guilty to strip club-related charges

Posted on July 25th, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

A month after a federal indictment was issued against them, Northwest strip club mogul Frank Colacurcio Sr. and five others involved in his businesses appeared in court Friday to answer charges of racketeering, money laundering and facilitation of prostitution.
Facing U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue, Colacurcio, his son, Frank Colacurcio Jr., and longtime associate John Gilbert Conte. They pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, as did three other accused.
In an grand jury indictment unsealed June 30, federal authorities accuse the Colacurcios and their associates of racketeering, using interstate commerce to facilitate prostitution, money laundering and mail fraud. At issue are allegations that the strip clubs — Rick’s in Seattle, Sugar’s in Shoreline, Honey’s in Everett and Fox’s in Tacoma — were used as fronts for prostitution that allegedly garnered the men $25 million in the past four years.

See the full article from “Seattle Post Intelligencer”

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