Rick Stafford wrote: > What I would like to see from participants on this list is what they think > about Green Party candidate Dean Zimmerman's statements regarding the > re-opening of the saunas/massage parlors along Lake Street as the solution to >prostitutes in our neighborhoods.
I hope Dean was making this comment as an aside to be amusing, because it does not make sense otherwise. Since I live across the street from one of the two remaining whore houses on Lake Street, I can say something about this issue. There are two saunas remaining, the Royal Knight between Fifth and Portland and the Utopia East between Oakland and Park. With the exception of 18 months three or four years ago they've been open forever--or so it seems. The street prostitutes still ply their trade in both North Central and south West Phillips. In court several years back, a police officer testified that it costs $160.00 for the "full treatment" at the saunas. Street prostitutes charge $20.00. They work near the saunas because they have the same customer base and because the presence of saunas are free advertizing for their services. From my observation and that of my neighbors "near the saunas" extends as far as 38th St. to the South and Franklin to the North. They work out of houses in the neighborhoods and sashay up and down Lake Stree and 31st. St. when they are on the stroll. They will do so successfully, in my opinion, so long as the law goes after the prostitutes vigorously, but doesn't go after either the johns (their customer base) or the sauna pimps and street pimps--and keep on them. Allowing new whore houses to open on Lake Street will not solve any of the problems associated with street prostitution, but if could make liffe more dangerous for young girls and women who are not part of the trade, but only going about their business. WizardMarks, Central > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
