19 women rescued from brothel

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I've passed this place and joked about working there so many times

Just a thought, what if it were called 'Rapes' instead of 'Cuddles'?

Thats a bit funny I think actually..

Oh FFS, I think that statement is a bit ridiculous, mt.

Of course the issue is serious, I'm not denying that, but the name is stupid.

sigh - you KNOW the answer to that one, mt!
"theyre illegal immigrants, they were breaking the law being here anyway"

"cuddles" is the sort of name I might expect to find for a kinky sex shop (you know the ones with the neon lights outside, and the cheap plastic manequins in the window). You just don't expect to discover it's the 'home' to something like this.

actually I find the name cuddles a bit sad. rapes would have been nearer the truth, obviously.

yes - but people are talking about what they thought of the name "BEFORE" they knew what was going on there - obviously in relation to the news story it's NOT funny.

Not wanting to seem harsh here, but can we all seriously sit here and say that we were unaware that Eastern European women were being trafficked over here for prostitution purposes ?! Surely to discover that a 'massage sauna' is employing (on however an exploitative basis) these girls is not a huge surprise ?

The sex industry is shocking and something does need to be done, but this raid is hardly throwing up new information, is it ?

why call it industry at all?

There is a great deal of traffic in girls and women, from Eastern Europe into the EU, and from the poorer nations of the Pacific into Japan. Everyone knows this, and yet nothing is done.

Such laws that repatriate these women to their home countries where they are likely to lapse into similar trade. And doubly so when the perpetrators go scott-free.

Sick, it is sick!

Oh god, we used to eat at the Italian next to "Cuddles" We always found it6 to be very seedy. Just not how seedy.

Iused to licve next to a brothel in Stirchley. Hopefully, they don't do that sort of thing thaere

And MT, the massage parlour in Sello Oak is "Manyana" that I know these things.

obvious to you and me qoq

NDP - yes, we all know it, but if we just accept it with a shrug and a "so what" nothing will ever change.

personally I think I am in favour of bringing the whole business inside a legal framework - issues at the job centre notwithstanding.

Of course it's ridiculous, NDP. That's the point! And I'd also agree that this is nothing new, it's just in the news (though I got the feeling that was probably more to do with the all female action force that carried out the raid).

Realistically, there will always be a sex trade. Men who don't get sex will always want it and some women (and also some men) will be willing to give it to them for a price. Capitalism (with a bit of misogyny thrown in for good measure) means those stronger (i.e. men) will always exploit those weaker (women). I don't know where I stand on legalisation as to some extent all of this is somehow legitimised. But whatever happens it won't end completely. We can certainly do something about the prevalence of porn in the mainstream though.

Moozo, that's perfect! Why bother to do today what you can always do tomorrow.