Soon after he disrobed, Yvette assumed the elderly man was sweetly delusional as well. The first few times, Yvette corrected him each time he called her by the other name, but then let the matter go, surmising that somewhere along the line, her senile customer had a black woman like her as a caregiver.
Yvette is serious about the healing aspects of her discipline, so much so that these days, she specializes in oncology massage. When her patient reached up for her, Yvette figured his delusions were kicking in again. She kept guiding his hands back down. But when the reaching turned into groping, she firmly explained he needed to stop. She encounters such situations about once a month, she says. Is that it? Is it finished? At any given moment, one police source says, there are about eight massage parlors operating as fronts for prostitution somewhere in the District.
The cop says D. Massage parlors, legally, are required to employ therapists who go through the D. A spokesman for the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Helder Gil, says records show only 17 massage establishments in the District have the required business license. A Google search, meanwhile, turns up more than massage businesses in D. Guillaume also says he gets calls from men obviously fishing for sex.
A good-looking guy whose smooth features and bearded face looks like he was inspired by the aesthetics of ancient Persia, Tony Jackson works for Lunar and says hard-up women clients do it more subtly, but will also look for something more than a tension release.
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