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body-rub parlour
DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
Spelling variants:body rub parlor, body rub parlour
n. — euphemism, dated, Urban culture
an establishment offering massage services and often, illegally, sexual services.
Type: 5. Frequency — These establishments, often found in run-down districts, are associated with illicit sexual services (see. e.g., the 2013 quotation). The term is very rarely found outside of Canada (see Chart 1), and appears to be Canadian in origin. Even with the spelling of "parlor", more common in the US, the term is most frequent in Canada (see Chart 2).
See also COD-2, s.v. "body-rub parlour", which is marked "Cdn".
See also COD-2, s.v. "body-rub parlour", which is marked "Cdn".
Quotations
1978
The appeal succeeds, the order of the Divisional Court is varied and, as varied, will direct the respondent municipality to issue to the appelant an owner and operator's licence for a body-rub parlour at the premises in question within the municipality.
1987
An Ontario Supreme Court judge has upheld the legality of a Metro Toronto bylaw that requires body-rub parlors to obtain licences.
1993
A university graduate who raised her son on her own and put him through college into a professional school has been fined $750 for operating a Brampton sex massage parlor called The Right Touch.
A second woman, who is illiterate and lives on a widow's allowance, has been fined $300 for offering to perform sex acts for money in The Airport Studio body rub parlor in Mississauga.
2007
Coquitlam council has doubled the business-licence fees charged escort agencies and body-rub parlour operators to $10,000.
References
- COD-2
Images
Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 9 Oct. 2013
