★★Taiwanese
Massage ★★★★
BACK & FOOT RUB, erotic
massage parlors, 台湾の足裏,全身マッサージ体験 ★★★★this site's
world No. 1
in 2020~25,2017~19,2016,
2015,2014,
2013,
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Top since 1998 ★
Telegraph (UK), 2023-5-15:
Everywhere you look there are hair salons
offering shampoos and head massages for a handful of New Taiwan dollars, while
reflexology and back massage for NT$10 can be had on almost every street
corner. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/15/war-taiwan-residents-seemed-in-blissful-denial/
(PS: massage in regular hair salons is cheap, tips may be free, and massage time
is short; but massage in massage parlours usually cost you NT1,000~2000 for two
hours) New York Times, 2021-3-21:
In Asia, massage is legal, normal and necessary. In America, it’s stained by
sexism, imperialism and sex trafficking.
―
“Aren’t
they all sex parlors?”。
(nytimes.com/2021/03/21/opinion/atlanta-shooting-asian-massage.html?_ga=2.4229488.2143597131.1619676290-916182465.1606396806)
However, in Asia's Taiwan, erotic/porn massages or rub-and-tugs
are everywhere,
even including some blind massage
(worse in 10 years ago).
US state government - Trafficking in persons report,
Jun. 2023,
July 2021 and Jun. 2020:
Taiwan
traffickers also exploit persons with disabilities in sex trafficking. BBC,
2021-5-20 named Taipei's WanHua district "Taiwan's red light district, home to
tea houses and massage centers" (news.yahoo.com/covid-19-went-wrong-singapore-232207544.html). TIME, 2021-5-20: a Little Secret Tea, Broke Down Taiwan's COVID-19 Defenses.
"a little secret" implies tea houses and massage centers are legal and normal on
surface, but are secret porn business. Even
in
some regular traditional massage businesses, some masseuses or female therapists rub customer's groin area
(they use the term "海邊", "Hi-bian") while giving full-body
massage, some go further to offer "happy ending" for tips. So, you better select a place with
reputation, e.g., "六星集"
(
http://www.footmassage.com.tw/)
or
5 star hotel's massage salon / barber shop.
★ WebMD:
Used as a complement
to traditional, Western medicine, massage can promote relaxation and
reduce cancer symptoms or side effects of treatment. It may help reduce
pain, swelling, fatigue, nausea, or depression, for example, or improve
the function of your immune system. Massage helps relieve depression and anxiety.
★Michigan State
University
:
Ancient foot massage
technique may ease cancer
symptoms.
Reflexology is
based on the idea that
stimulating specific
points on the feet can improve the functioning
of corresponding organs, glands and other parts
of the body.
★FoxNews: Cancer patients feel less distress after massage
therapy, study finds.
★America
Cancer Society:
While massage appears promising for symptom
management and improving quality of life, available scientific evidence
does not support claims that massage slows or reverses the growth or
spread of cancer. A growing number of health care professionals
recognize massage as a useful addition to conventional medical
treatment.
★
Harvard University :
Frequent Ejaculation May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
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youtube.com/watch?v=wsMuBItVTTg
youtube.com/watch?v=TIK6H8ZvpKs
April 2024, Feb. 2018
Massage is popular in Taiwan. pic. is survivors from huge
earthquake having massage in temporary shelter
In a chain store, I chose a 75-year-old
masseuse
(with 50 years of experience, maybe the oldest in the field). Her muscles were
still
good. She said her monthly income was less than NT30,000, another one said
probably about NT20,000 (USD700). They used to earn extra cash by doing
massage in hotel room upon call - not any more. Recently, it
is difficult to call blind massager in Taipei's small hotels, but grand
ones such as EverGreen Hotel still call blind massage for their customers
staying overnight.
<信安 (Xin An)>
tripadvisor.jp/Attraction_Review-g13806451-d16882545-Reviews-Xin_An_An_Mo_Zhong_Xin-Datong_Taipei.html
is the most well-known blind massage chain stores. One
store in the west quarter hires several
normal vision female therapists from China - the one I chose pressured
hard, she said the store was
interviewed and reported by a famous Japanese TV station.
These "blind" massage shops have a special selling point - massaging the lower body for half hour
for NT400.
US
State Government 2023traffickinginpersonsreport(2023-6-16):
Taiwanese
traffickers also exploit persons with disabilities in sex trafficking.
♣
Traditional massage (傳統按摩) Generally speaking,
masseuses from
Mainland
China are powerful and can pressure really hard; before getting married to
Taiwan, many of them were peasants, fisherwomen or seaside workers. Most
masseuses in
foreign tourists-areas XiMenDing
(西門町)
and Taipei Main Station are
Taiwanese (e.g., <足強> Simon
Massage shop or <足滿足>
shop), because, one Chinese
masseuse told me, tourists usually don't like
hard-pressure massage, especially Japanese - they like soft or gentle massage.
The Chinese massage girl also told me, Taiwanese
masseuses have power
too, but it depends if they are willing to spend full energy on it.
The price of a traditional massage is about 1,300 for two hours. <李炳輝
(Li BingHui)>
massage chain shop, a popular one, borrows the name of (Wikipedia:
"借出名稱站台") a senior blind singer 李炳輝
who also played a role as
celebrity endorsements for the shop ,
but Mr. Li doesn't have any position in the shop, he lived in poverty, according to media reports, Li only earned
little per month and needed friends' donations to make living
73歲李炳輝現況曝光！穿單薄外套市場旁賣藝 畫面惹鼻酸 (yahoo.com) ; by contrast, a mainland female
massager of Li BingHui shop said that she can earn NT 90,000 per month if working
harder. In traditional massage field, the oldest ones are aged over
60 , almost all male massagers are Taiwanese - Traditional
massage in Taipei's 5-star hotels are different - rarely see a male massage
therapist, if you want one, the hotel may do special arrangement for you.
Taiwan's massage crimes never end, they occurred in famous shops, even top
hospital (Cheng Hsin General Hospital) ... some very popular massager was sexual
assault criminal
in recent half year, media reported several crimes including :
Taiwan police usually keep one eye closed on these parlors.
Unlike traditional massage, Thai. style massagers or , say, servants don't sit in rows in the lobby for
your selections. The counter usually take customer to a private room, then the
girl (actually, woman aged 30-55 or older but they won't let you know) shows up in darker or dim light, they usually
don't look like normal house wives or neighbor girls, instead, some look just like
prostitutes, some may argue a lot for tips if you allow
a grey-zone at the beginning. The regular massage price is about NT800~1000 for one hour and 1,300 for 90 minutes,
extra service fee not included. They pressure very soft, usually. Few
Thai. massage parlors with excellent decoration don't offer erotic massage
(but some girls may cross the line), Thai. massage (usually)
doesn't pressure as hard as (Chinese) traditional massage.
♣
Spa
massage (視聽理容會館)
High-end massage. Each private room
is equipped
with TV, audio, excellent air condition, hair-cutting chair, and provides with
nail-care, face-care
options; some Spas have a jokingly name「手工店」, which
means some girls may finger
you and offer jerk off service (even 'take-out' service for extra money).Media
reported a widely-known council member was a customer of a spa in NanJing E. Rd.
Spa shops have girls
younger than Thai. massage parlours.
Spa's price is about double the traditional massage's. For instance, <京華城>
NT1300 per hour、2600
for 2 hours, <Sakura
Spa> NT3200 (USD100) for 2 hours, both are cheaper than those in 5-star
hotels. Due to CovID-19, <溫莎堡>
chain shops with foreign tour groups as their main marketing objective was
closed.
Ending
A few years ago, the price of traditional massage in Japan was about 50% off
(cw.com.tw/article/5101785
), NT620
per hour was cheaper than those in Taiwan. China's price suppose even
lower. Considering the average monthly income in Taiwan
(Wiki. Jul 2023: USD
1,282 ~1,407)
is only about half of that in Japan (DeskTrack
Nov. 2023
3,794 USD),
the massage price seems still too high for Taiwanese public.
April 2024
Wikipedia's
interlink WikiSexGuide, April 2021
wikisexguide.com/wiki/Taipei
"Most of the prostitutes in Taiwan are
working in innocent looking massage
parlors, salons, spas, night clubs, dance halls, even tea houses"◦
http://www.wikisexguide.com/wiki/Taiwan
(
Dec. 2018 ): "One can find prostitutes in
massage parlors, spas, salons in
Taiwan".
Apple Daily , 2021-2-17
The
hidden rule for workers in
sex-related circle (including
massage parlous, etc) is the law
is hard to protect their rights
and interests if encounter some
risk such as rape (sex without
money), sexual harassment etc
while "working".
tw.appledaily.com/local/20210217/O2GPTL5QTZAEPAFAS3TNAXCZAQ/
Apple Daily (蘋果日報), 12-25-2020
To have fun
at erotic or porn
massage parlors, you may need
regular (or repeat) customer to
lead the way， otherwise the shop
definitely will deny everything,
even kick you out. Those parlors
in ZhongShan district usually
use secret code "0.3、0.5、1" to
name their service, "0.3: means
NT3000 for hand job, "0.5" means
NT5,000 for blow job, "1" is
NT10,000 for (S) sex service, some
pure traditional massage or SPA
shops also offer hand-job service, to
get NT2500 a lot easier than
hard-work massage.
https://tw.appledaily.com/local/20201225/G5X6NBZAPJDINEDLPZKHFDVE5E/
https://tw.appledaily.com/local/20201225/KF6JYZ247ZDPNGGSDW5PMHAU5U/
Apple Daily , 11-9-2020
even a
physical therapist
of
Cheng-Hsin General Hospital
(Taipei 振興醫院),
a famous hospital, committed a
crime of sexual harassment (made
a pass at her private part, etc)
while giving massage upon a
female patient.
tw.appledaily.com/local/20201109/6J43CZ653VBS3PZZKDBA4FK3XA/
Hong Kong best film nominee <金雞>('02)，
Hong Kong masseuse in a normal
traditional massage house
"peddles" her hand job after
regular massage service.
Another HK film also mentions
female massagers like to do hand
job for their customers. In
Taiwan, many masseuses, even
blind
or
visually impaired
ones, are willing to do
this for money. Some
will do it if you have
connection with her regular
customer or friends.
BBC, 6-3-2020
“knife therapy”, is believed to have
physical and emotional healing powers and is a form of
Chinese medicine that is thought to be more than 2,000
years old.
●
Taiwan's
phony crackdown on prostitution :prostitution
!
Basically, there're 3 types of massage services in
Taiwan : traditional massage, barber shop massage, and
Thailand (or some South-east Asia
countries) style massage parlors. The latter two are more
erotic. Traditional massage could work out your
tension, increase circulation, activate the right energy
points
(穴道),
and alleviate pains, if you get the right masseuse,
some massage workers in traditional massage shops offer
"extra" service for easy money. Having massage
in Taiwan, pls. note
:
●
health vs. fraud
/ A story in Washington Post,
2021-3-31,
said in the US
a very poor neck massage -
physical therapy referred by physiciancosts
over two hundred US dollars
for 45 minutes.
Taiwanese
masseuse
costs you only about 1/10.United Daily
News (8-23-2018) reported that, according to the law, any Taiwanese masseuse
without MD license declaring they
offer "therapy" instead of massage, or
what they do have curative effect
(e.g., lymphatic detoxification, cure plantar fasciitis,
pathological massage) will get penalty fine.
EBC TV (東森電視,
靖天育樂,
9-30-2018, "Hello Doctor"): There's one case scraping (刮痧) improperly caused
paraplegic problems ...... massaging improperly
may cause LDH, Erectile dysfunction, Gatism,
stroke....... Taipei City
Hospital (Renai branch) 's M.D. in 康健 Magazine (12-4-2017) said the main
difference between massage-naprapathy in medical clinic and various style
massages in massage shops is that the clinic will find
out your pathogeny (cause of disease) and give
right treatments. CTS, 5-4-2018, reported a
Taiwanese person with
hyperglycemia/hyperlipidemia/ hypertension almost die
for having massage in Taiwan.
● crime /
BBC 12-13-2019:
The back-cracking Thailand massage has
been added to intangible cultural heritage list by
UNESCO,
however,
the form of Thai. massage in Taiwan is
different.
Mirror (鏡周刊) 5-14-2019:
Recently, lots of East-South Asian young girls entered
Taiwan to be prostitutes ... you may see them in
Thai. massage parlors, as well as in some traditional
massage shops. Some underworld (gangsters) own
both erotic Thai. massage and traditional massage
business which may do something as well. ○
Yahoo headline 11-27-2017 ( and Chicago Tribune, CNN,
USA Today, etc) : Massage Envy,
a behemoth in massage therapy, is
facing hundreds of sexual assault allegations, because
massage has "built-in
risk" , "just
like there was opportunity in the priesthood, there's
opportunity in the massage room... your guard is down
completely".
Washington Post (11-27-2017): "ONE incident is too
many". CNA, 2021-4-23
(cna.com.tw/news/asoc/202104230056.aspx) reported
a
male massager fooled a young girl client that there are
some energy points
(穴道)
in breast and private part, then successfully sexual assaulted her.
Liberty Times, 2021-4-16
(news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/breakingnews/3502055):
an old (age 57)
masseuse lured a male client in about same age as her
son into sex transaction.
Taiwan's
CTV(中視),
2021-5-13,
7:20am: a
good-looking
masseuse's throat was cut by a sharp knife...
.
CTV、CTS(華視新聞)
TV News at
9-3-2019:
a girl college
student was separated her legs and was sexual
harassed while having massage in
tourist-site Xi-Mun-Din
area, TVBS News reported a similar case, suspiciously, was
found in a
famous brand
『李炳輝第二代』("疑爆猥褻性侵"
for details -
https://news.tvbs.com.tw/local/353431).
Apple Daily (蘋果日報)
12-16-2019 :
a masseuse in
Xi-Min-Din (西門町) foot massage shop did "kiss"
"outrageously" a lady-customer's private part when she
was sleepy during the session, the high court can't give
him heavy penalty for lacking of evidences。CTV (中視新聞)
evening news, 5-19-2017, 19:07: a female customer was
hurt and was drew blood by a masseuse's "needle"
.
The Liberty Times (1-8-2016),
a masseuse in a popular night market (RaoHe Street) did
sexual assault (by fingers, and kissing) to a cute house
wife...
I personally have unusual experiences of " doze-off " during
a massage session - in
an
obscure storefront.
Hence,
please
keep in mind to select 5 star hotel's or
best-reputation massage shops for your perfect safety,
the popular or crowded ones may not be clean ones.
Besides, having body massage in a private room is much
more risky than foot massage in an open space.
For
similar reason
( poor Taiwan administration),
Taiwan's most famous Toxicology expert & professor Yin
M.D. (顏宗海,
U. London ) advised that "Minimize the times of dining
out to protect your health !
Taiwan's massage costs you more than all-you-can-eat
buffet in 5 star hotel like US Sheraton or Shangri-La's,
about NT1000 for 2.5 hours' lunch.
(Taiwan's traditional massage asks about NT800 per
hour, Barber massage NT1100+ per hour, Thai massage is
cheaper, usually NT1000~1200 for 2 hours, but tips NT500
~ 2000+ for "extra service", by contrast, massage price
in Thailand is about NT200 per hour, in China may even
cost you less; Some barber massage shops near
Westin hotel, Sherwood hotel, EVA hotel were closed in
recent years, in Oct. 2018, two massage shops next to Sheraton hotel was
closed )
uneven
ps1:
the female masseuse
might naturally touch customer's groin near end of
massage therapy, and provides 40 minutes "service"
starting from Japanese $7000.
Ecstasy
in massage ? particularly
full body massage in a private
room
The ecstasy method is constantly
updated, be careful !
n M.D.劉伯恩
says, at least three different
kinds of
ecstasy:
1.
Rapidly volatilizing liquid
Armonia : In high
concentrations, it will cause an
instant nervous system response.
Rapid volatilization affects the
central nervous system, causing
loss of memory or temporary loss
of some control, and even
fainting 2.
Liquid anesthetic (液態麻藥):
it will only numb the part, not
dizzy
3. Gaseous nitrous oxide(氣態笑氣):
it has the same effect but
currently cannot be transformed to a liquid
n
Policeadvise:
should you encounter this situation, move the
medicine to toilet paper or towel, then enclose it in a paper bag, and hand it
over to the police... not in plastic bags as it may be corrupted
n
solution:in the first place drink a lot of water or inhale pure oxygen to
help metabolize poisons
PS: The
possibility of having massage by
illegal or immoral
masseuses
can not be ruled out.
●
business is down
-
even before CovID-19
broke out. EBC(東森) TV News at 8-2-2019 reported that many massage
businesses in must-see tourist-site Xi-Mun-Din, such as <足強/
Simon massage>、<皇家峇里
/ royalbali>,
etc prove
keen competitions in the field, in the past years
70% of customers were Korean and Japanese tourists (next
were from HK, Singapore and local people), now drop
about 50%. Taking low-price strategy only leads to
destructive
competition, or useless at all,
because there's no crowded visitors to come. Around
end of 2019, top brand <6-star Foot
Massage Villa
Spa> (六星集, http://www.footmassage.com.tw/)
on
Chuan-Ann E. Rd. was closed already......
All these most likely proves previous strategy, so-called
"premium
services"
not working well
――
CTS evening news
(2-15-2019
19:15)
reported that
Taiwanese massage business are leaping at the chance to
attract Japanese customers by upgrading to premium
services
―― Apple Daily (12-28-2018) reported
that the number of Japanese tourists to massage shops is going down, because of a sudden dramatic
decline of massage price in Japan, even
cheaper than Taiwan's price. Besides,
according to
TradingEconomics,
the average amount of Japanese net salary in Nov. 2018,
NTD91,109.27, is about double that of Taiwanese, NT46,542.
In earlier years, three
main attractions for Japanese tourists were
National Palace Museum,
steamed bun and cheap massage, according to a Japanese
writer's essay in Apple Daily at 12-28-2018.
●
Porn /
The Guardian 2021-5-16
(theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/lockdowns-and-panic-buying-in-taiwan-as-covid-cases-rise):
...the district of Wanhua,
where a cluster of at least 100 cases so far has centred on hosted bars and
teahouses connected to the sex work industry.
But, Next TV news 2021-5-18:
Many
foreign laborers from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, etc entered
Taiwan by the name of care-taker but actually illegally worked
at these porn
parlors in Taipei's Wanhua district, now have escaped to their boss places
in southern Taiwan to avoid corona-virus test...
some massage parlors ignored ban placed by gov. and
still run business.
UDN 12-2-2018: Taiwan's
“New
Southbound Policy”
results in
"fake tourists, true prostitutes", the number of foreign
prostitutes hits top ever, some of them 'work' for massage parlors
(some use sound-translator to communicate with customers).
(2018-10-28):
young Vietnamese
work as skin-care masseuses at day time, as street
girls in 桂林 road & lanes after 11 pm.
According to The United Daily News (7.27.2014) and Apple
Daily News (4.12.2014), many massage parlors in Taipei run porn business. Prostitution
in Taiwan
are,
firstly, Thai massage parlors
(「掛羊頭賣狗肉」的按摩店(或養生館)), second, call-girls
controlled by agents, thirdly, individual working studio
or so-called one-woman
brothel
(「一樓一鳳」).
Some
massage business set their market-positioning to be Thai. massage parlor as well
as Traditional massage shop, so as to earn one way or another, hence some refine young house wives made more than NTD 100 thousands per month.
at 5-5-2016 reported
"nude massage"
advertisement
Apple
Daily News (April 12, 2014)
, according to what the reporter saw - massage girls in Taipei
all do
prostate-care sort of half-package sexual
service
(都會從事被稱為「攝護腺保養」、「淋巴排毒.
」等半套性服務).
Most
girls in Thai. massage parlours and erotic luxury barber-shop
(or namely, "massage fashion center", "spa massage",
"audio-visual massage", "skin care
studio", etc, or in Chinese "視聽理容, 時尚紓壓會館" )
might offer some manual stimulation or
whatever
release the most tension,
a happy-ending
for customers. Some
masseuses
in traditional massage businesses will
rub your upper inner thigh muscles, and might go further
for tips or for routine customers.
The
China Times (1.19.2014) : The massage became
most popular business in Taiwan, this sort of
salons were opened more and more
in recent years for Taiwan's bad economic. The
China Time Weekly (6-2-2016): The 1st floor of Taiwan
president Ma's apartment is a traditional massage shop. Apple Daily news (Dec. 25, 2014) reported
a scholar's
study ―
the reason that barber shops and massage parlors in
Taiwan offer "something extra" to "horn
it up" is Taiwanese
people's
sexual repression and men's "needs"/hormones
(ps: but many Taiwanese customers do it just for "entertainment"
and casual fun-fun -
ref. to Next
magazine 2015, No.722 ). Most masseuse in Thai.
massage parlors are mainland Chinese women,
they are more powerful and more "open" than Taiwanese women. If Taiwan's
Thai massage parlors all get together in one street,
that'll be a "China Town" in Taiwan
―
definitely the most special China Town on this planet.
Some
massage houses are so popular (e.g., Foot-Massage Spa Villa) that
customers flock to it, you may need a
reservation in advance (just like Michelin one star
restaurants in New York ), otherwise will be in a
queue for service. Taiwan's
media equated Taiwanese (foot) massage with National
Palace Museum (exhibiting ancient China's treasures)
―
both are
Taiwan's major attractions,
therefore, "Taiwanese massage" certainly
deserves to be
explored and studied - on the web-pages following
top-rankings records below.
○
pic. left: This sites-group was ranked
No. 1 on China's Baidu by "Taiwan massage" ,
test at 8-3-2019, No. 5 at
2022-6-13
pic. right: This sites-group was ranked
No. 1
on China's Baidu by
"Taiwanese massage" , at 6-20-2020, 7-12-2019,
, No.
5 at 2022-6-13
○
○
Basically, there're
3 categories of Taiwanese massage:
●
1-1. high end /
Taiwan’s
democratically elected representatives
came
They,
also namely "massage
fashion center", or "spa massage",
"audio-visual massage", "skin care
studio", etc, or in Chinese "視聽理容, 時尚紓壓會館",offer good quality of massage as well as
luxury
environment and atmosphere - customers have
private room, comfortable barber-chair, heart-delighted
music, freezing air-condition, and a cable TV,
basic price for pure massage is about NTD1000~1300 per
hour,
other services
including nail care, pedicure, hair-cutting, expert foot
massage, etc cost you more. You can select pretty massage girls
aged 20+(very few under 20), or senior
masseuse
usually with better massage skills and stronger muscle,
energy, to do Zhi Ya (指壓)。You may experience pampering
and motherly energy in here, but, most
of luxury barber shop massage businesses are belong to "erotic massage" category.
"Zhi Ya" means "Acupressure",
is manual pressure applied to a specific slightly
depressed point (pressure points)
on the body with fingers/hands. However,
only a few or very few massage female are
willing to do acupressure and squeezing/rubbing
guests' muscles harder solely by their fingers for
the whole session, instead, they elbow customers'
muscle, or even foot-step on guests' back and legs, to
save their own energy. To my experience, they
still are better than the blind masseuse called by 4
star or 5 star hotel (reception counter). Please
note, some masseuse may try to twist your neck like
Turkish bath way, inexperienced masseuse may hurts
customer.
In Taipei City, basic massage expense
range is NT1000~1300 (USD35~40) per hour, USD70~80 per 2
hrs., tips optional. (New Taipei City is cheaper,
about NT400 for half hour) In most
barber shops,
the customers, may just like an ancient emperor, having
several girls around to serve you
― e.g.,
one or 2 masseuse do zhi-ya
on your body & foot, another one does facial treatment and
a manicurist does nail
care, etc for you. In this sort of barber
shops, customers
usually lie
supine ( in contrast, traditional massage
usually start from lying face-down ) on
the barber-bed
for being massaged, so that some evil masseuses are
harder (still possible) to do anything tricky (e.g., daze
customers by chemical ... for a moment)
"after you". Better select a shop with
reputation
for your personal safety.
According to
ETTV news ("東森", 9-10-2014) and
The China Times' <Want Weekly<
("周刊王", No.041, 2015), the
daughter
in law(蔡依珊) of Dr.
Lien Chan (連戰1936-), former vice-president and
chairman of Guomintang (or say KMT - ruling political
party of current government),
loves Sakura barber-shop massage house located by Dun-Hua Ren-Ai
circle, ETTV news also reported
that lots of very influential VIPs,
glitterati,
love coming here, many BMW and Benz (worth many
billions dollars) are parking at the front , TV
stars like
天心、侯佩岑 was
here, etc,
however, my
Sakura
experiences in last year
were just OK, not perfect. Their
price is just little bit higher than other barber shops, NT1300
for 60 min.,
NT1950 for 90 min., NT2600 for 2 hours,
doing a facial(
做臉)costs
you NT1400、hair-washing
(洗髮)
NT500、Foot
cuticle repair(修腳)
NT500、ear-pick(挖耳)
NT450、shoes-polishing
(擦皮鞋)NT150、
hair-cutting(理髮) NT600、manicure
(修手) NT350.
Massage salons in 5 star hotels (see section 3 below)
cost you much more.
A
massage
girl told me Sakura
is a "higher class" place.
In recent years
more and more red Chinese girls have been 'imported' to
massage businesses in Taiwan. More likely
there're 'something' (out for a drink, etc) you can talk
about with some masseuses ... The
clientmay bit paw
some
masseuses while massaging.
The Liberty Times reported at 3-17-2008: The
module of sex trade in here is client buying
masseuse's
hours (paying take-out fee to the massage center) in advance, then
take the girl out to hotel for love hog things.
The
paper of Central Police University (Hsu S.Y., 2009) or
Chung Hua University (professor Liao YihHsing,
2012) : The price of "take-out 2 hours" is about NTD
800, the price for "vanish the cane" is
usually NTD3000.
One
masseuse
told me they don't have good
reputation, but some of them still married a right guy
(usually means a rich man).
★ The
Huffington Post:
An erotic massage is both healthy
and sexy
Breast Massages May Prevent Cancer, Study
Says
It's time to get hands-on.
An erotic massage is both healthy
and sexy — making it a win for you
and your partner.
A revelation in science suggests
that a simple squeeze of the breasts
may help prevent malignant cells
from triggering breast cancer. How,
you ask? This is because the
physical pressure helps regulate the
cells back to a normal growth
pattern.
Wikipedia: In July 2012, The Huffington Post was ranked #1 on the 15
Most Popular Political Sites list by eBizMBA Rank.
This web-page
Ranking No.1 on Google by keywords
"Taiwanese massage", test at 6-6-2015, 2-4-2015,
No.1
"Taiwan massage" in Chinese, test at
6-17-2017, 9-9-2016, No.2 at 3-5-2018,
● another
popular barber shop massage, Gin-Hua
Town (京華城時尚館),
was just reported by
<Want Weekly> ("周刊王",
10-21-2015)
that in some evening a married city-councilor,
Dai Xi-Qin
(市議員戴錫欽),
stayed in there for 3 hours.
<Want Weekly>
also calls it a "manual stimulation" (手工),
or porn
(情色) shop, but was rarely investigated or/and
caught by police since opened in 1994, Taiwan's
police chief Chen Guo-Ann (陳國恩 '17) was the police chief in charge of
Song-San District where Gin-Hua Town massage
parlor was under his jurisdiction.
Want Weekly reporter also saw some gorgeous girls often
walking around the lobby, but not every woman in there
offers sex service for money. ps:
photo of the chief of Taiwan's National Police
Agency, Chen Kuo-En /
http://www.npa.gov.tw/NPAGip/wSite/ct?xItem=76136&ctNode=12850
pic. above: Taiwanese style
barber massage chair (very exotic and very
Taiwanese style) - pic. taken in Gin-Hua Town / Metro Massage
resort house (京華城/大都會Comfortable
Internal Relax), Nan-Gin E. Rd., sec. 5.,
118.
According to academic paper of
Central Police University(中央警察大學研究所 2009
)or paper of Chung-Hua University (中華大學
2012):
the take-out fee for the massage house is NTD800
(USD27) for 2 hours,
price for
boink
―
negotiate with the girl,
usually
NTD3000
◎
Major majestic barber shops for massaging in Taipei :
●
Sakura健康生活館 :
Esquire Building, round-about
traffic circle (rotonde)Ren'ai
Rd.
●
Windser Bur Massage
Shop - 25-12, Sec.1 , Min-Seng E. Rd., Taipei
(Lots of foreign tour groups are here)
●
京華城( Metro 大都會) Comfortable
Internal Relax - 118, Sec. 5, NanGin E. Rd. Taipei
●
Kai.Yeh.com.tw (KaDerLy)
- 140, Sec. 2, Nan-Gin E. Rd., Taipei
●
White House Massage
& Barber Shop - B1, 294, Sec.1 Dunhua S.
Rd. Taipei
●
Kai.Yeh.com.tw (Cardia)
- 100, Lin-Sen N. Rd. , Taipei
● ShangHai
in the Night (夜上海)Spa: 25, Sec.3, Nan-Gin E.
Rd., Taipei
●
Pleasure Body Works
Spa (悅華) - 96, Sec.3, Nan-Gin
E. Rd., Taipei (closed, early 2015)
●
Kai.Yeh.com.tw
(Triumph arch) - 53, Sec. 3, Min-Seng E.
Rd.,Taipei
●
Time (時代)
- 103, Sec.2, Chuan-Ann East Rd., Taipei
●
Price
Town
太子城 Spa - ZhongXiao E. Rd. and Guon-Fu S.
Rd., Taipei
●
冠天下 healthcare
- 38 Sec.2, Nan-Gin E. Rd.,
Taipei
●
晶華首席: 21, sec.1 Chuan-Ann E. Rd., Taipei
●
溫莎堡
Windser Bur Massage Shop - sec.1 Chuan-Ann E.
Rd., Taipei (opposite side of 晶華首席)
●
Beautiful
Environmental (美儷新境): 285, Sec. 5, NanGin E. Rd. Taipei
●
Broadway
(百老匯)
-
cross way : Nan-Gin
E. Rd. and Yi Jiang Street (moved
to Sin-Sen bridge & renamed 5'16)
●
186 fashion salon : 186, Sec. 4, Nan-Gin E. Rd.,
Taipei (only 2 hr session available)
●
Day
Spa太子城
- 330, sec 4, ZhongXiao E Rd, Super star
Ti-Ko-Liang 豬哥亮was there overnight
many times
Apple daily (蘋果日報), 2020-12-25
Porn massage needs regular client lead the way,
otherwise the shops might deny selling sex, those in ZongShan district (中山區)
usually use secret code "0.3"、"0.5"、"1"
―
"0.3" means to engage in masturbation
for
NTD3000 (USD100)，"0.5"
means NTD5000 blow job,
"1" is NTD10,000 full service,
Some pure traditional massage parlors and SPA
also provide with jerk-off job asking NTD 2500,
those
masseuses prefer easy-money NTD 2500 rather than
hard-work earning much less.
prostitution
!
The
percentage of Taiwanese prostitutes in 1,000
population ranks
No.1 in Asia,
the percentage of clients paid for sex ranks
No.1 in the world
pic. left: Zola Zu's cartoon, exhibited in Japan, Israel,
and Taiwan (originally prt. in the China Times)
pic. right: a Zola Zu's
cartoon using foot-massage sign
●
1-2.
low end /
Older fellers,
but not the classics..
★
Recall a kinda
"out-of-bounds" film <American Pie - Book of Love> , a
very experienced prostitute, elderly Monique, dies while
performing fellatio on a high-schooler. In
Taiwan, you got a lot of chances to try a Cougar in
out-of-date barber shops.
The age gap might be a lot bigger than that of Trump couple.
Some
barber shops having large black or almost opaque
or
obstructive
door-height windows as front facade
(to
prevent viewing what's going on inside
or how massagers look)
offering sex
transaction are hard to survive in Taiwan, there're
only some (about 10+) "old fashioned" barber-shops
in Taipei, e.g., around Yan-Ping S. Rd. & Han-Kou St.
(and in
Kun-Ming St.
,
Bo'ai special district "博愛特區"
- Taiwan Presidential Palace zone
- by contrast, erotic massage studios in the US,
typically,
are not found on main
throughfares, but in out of the way locations
), doing pure massage for NT700~800 per hr.,
or/and do "half-package" ("half"
means 'hand job', "full service" means going
all the way)
for about
NT1000/hr. ~ NT1500
or NT1600/90 min.
( taking-out "full" service price bargains) by
middle-aged (usually 40, 50+ some even outdated up to
70+) Taiwanese ( some are house-wife style, some others
are terrible-looking floozies with fully made-up or even
a belly-bag) , in small-sized barber-chairs of a preserved-in-time
crampedworking unit separated by
a sort of office furniture screen, or cotton curtain, or
a window door
― the darkness
builds an invisible wall for protecting each couple's little privacy, these
sort of nostalgic
(since 1970+)
barber shops transport older guests back to their
younger age,
but still are less
competitive than Thai. massage parlors.
In
Sept., 2018, an old-brand barber shop
namely "群爺" in
Xi-Mun Din
("西門町",
a popular
tourists district)
was
closed. By
2024, at least two more were closed. Due
to bad business, at least two old
style bright-light barber shops in
Bo'ai special district
offer dry-humping or even more.
Till 2024, at least two barber shops are
full of middle-age women from China (and few
from Vietnam) .
Before
having massage in these sort of dark parlors, you better
carefully ask the
price (NT1200 for 1.5 hour is just traditional massage)
and/or negotiate the price to avoid dispute later.
Some of them may not be what they look.
★
TVBS
(Mar. 17,
'08)
reported, the prosecutor said there's no wall and
door to separate each barber chair, so it's hard to
conclude there was any sexual intercourse done in front
of many people probably over there, and therefore no
one was charged.
(news.tvbs.com.tw/local/163408)。 The
prosecutor
'forgot' something ―
dim lit or even dark light for the desired effect. However, the Liberty Times
(Mar. 17,
'08) reported that a customer had sex with a massager on a small barber
chair, their 'room' was separated by just some cotton curtains. Apple
Daily reported (2003-6-6), some porn barber shops are close to Taipei police
station (within 100m), their massagers are older than
your mom, price is NTD 1500 for half package,
NTD 2000 for full service.
This price can have very young street girls in China
like GuangZhou, Zhuhai.
★
●
pic.:
the main difference between Thai. massage
parlors and dark barber shops is the latter one
has more older Taiwanese massagers looking like
passing through all odds or vicissitudes
(till now, more middle-age women from China work there), and a
barber pole at front of the shop, their regular
clients probably are older men.
In contrast, prostitutes in some legal places (e.g., 14 houses in TaiNan
City 台南東豐路、新營廠前街)
aged 30+, NT 800 for 20 min., 500~1000 for 30 min.
(
ref to Apple Daily 蘋果日報2-13-2019) are cheaper and, maybe, safer.
Thailand massage,
or namely, Vietnam, Cambodia ... such
some
South-East Asia countries.
Thai.massage parlors have long had
a reputation as fronts for prostitution,
most, if not all, of massage girls are sex-workers.
◎
Wikipedia's
interWiki wikisexguide.com/wiki/Taipei (April,
2021):
There are Thai. massage
places all over Taipei and in most massage salons you do
have a good chance to find extra services. Wikipedia's
interlink WikiSexGuide points out ( Mar. 2015) that there are Thai massage places
all over Taipei and most places you have a good chance
to find 'extra services'.
In contrast to
so-called "astonishingly affordable" price USD 50 plus
tips per hour in N.Y. (New York Times, 2021-3-21), about
USD25 per hour in here
― tips for "extra
service" is not included.
The China Times (Jan. 13, 2015) analyzed those massage
parlors without room-door-locks are not running erotic
or porn business,
but if this news-report is correct, probably there is no erotic-porn
massage parlors in Taiwan. The truth is Taiwan's massage
parlors were very aware of the legal boundaries, and already exploited a
legal loophole to run business
―
keeping each private massage room's sliding (side-pull)
door closed but
unlock (or set a small window on the room-door), so as to be
in a legally "public area" status, in practice, no one
passing by will open the door to disturb "business" inside.
Taiwanese police and prosecutors certainly can see all these tricks
even with an eye blind, they just play
deaf-mute on porn trade. UDN
(3-16-2016) : recently, Taiwan prosecutors less likely
charge the crime "Offenses against Morals" to strip
teasers inside a room with door locked or just closed. A widely
known prostitute (官秀琴, eventually she
killed herself ) blamed that Taiwan's officials
only deal with tiny little fishes, and let go sharks with
connections ("柿子揀軟的吃"), this reminds
me Taiwan's official propaganda commercial to the U.N.,
using
the analogy of a
tiny-little-fish-sized whale in a
dollar-fish bowl to a poor isolated Taiwan.
◎
Typical Thailand style massage suppose applies deep
pressure, and pulling, bending, stretching the body, and
manipulating body into a variety of yoga poses.
The major difference between Taiwan's traditional barber shops
and Thai. massage parlors in Taiwan is Thai's cheaper
decoration and cheaper price
―
NT900~1300 (about USD35)
for about 2 hours (about NT600~800 for 1 hr)
on
a tami style, very thin flat
mattress on the floor in a single room (a little
tiny cubby hole couldn't be tighter) doing body massage (Zhi Ya),
or about NT1200+ for 2 hours on just a hard bed of a single room
doing "Essence Oil Massage"/"Aromatherapy"(油壓).
New Taipei City costs about same as Taipei City's.
Some Thai. parlors around Hua-Xi St. cost bit more,
NT1300 for 100 min. , they provide massage by Vietnamese
girls.
◎
Most massage-girls in Thai. massage parlors came from
China (mainland), particularly Fujian province (Fukien)
―
it's something weird, because according to statistics equal distribution
― suppose be
equally allocated to 20+
provinces of China. Do Fukien
specially
love this job? Workers usually are widows (married to Taiwanese)
or a wife of bogus/sham-marriage
( aged 30-45, few are aged
below 30), some others came Taiwan by using the law,
e.g., in the name of "Principle of Dependence on
Relatives"
or by using legal loopholes, e.g., short term travels
in the name of doing aesthetic medicine, minor
cosmetic/plastic surgery, stow-away, etc.
Most Thai
masseuse have rather plain (or worse than plain) look,
you (very) hardly find anyone of them being as refined
(or pretty) as the massage girl Shiao-Maam ("小蠻") or blind
massage girl Do-Hong ("都紅") in the communist
Chinese-French film <Blind Massage> which
swept Taiwan's 2014/2015 Golden Horse
movie awards (ps: lots of Taiwanese blind female
masseuses
called by motel/hotel offer hand-job or even "hard-core" sex service), Comparatively speaking, these red Chinese
in Thai parlors are (far) less pretty-looking, worse breeding(教養),
less
feminine
temperament(溫柔女質)(some are not only men-like tomboys but
also sort of shrews) than those Taiwanese chicks
and compensated dating (援交) working girls being kicked
out of Taipei's sex industry by former president Chen about
20 years ago. Their best interest to serve is
money itself.
Only a few parlors attract or solicit customers
by aged 20+ communist Chinese girls (e.g.,
rear of Taipei mainstation, Min-Sen
W Rd. cross Sin-Sen N rd.), or by young cute Vietnamese girls
- most are younger ones
(e.g., Yan Ping N.
Rd., or around Hua-Xi St. ), or by quite young Cambodia girl
(e.g., Gin-lin Rd. cross Min-Sen W Rd.),
etc (data Dec. '14), or Ba-Da Rd. near RaoHe
market (Aug. '18) , or even by the poofter masseuses (e.g., near Nei-Chiang St. cross
Kun-Ming St. / running their business by keeping a low-profile
―
without a
signage
board at front-door so that
passengers
hardly find them). The largest erotic-massage base
filling with Vietnamese women is in Da-Li district and Tai-Ping
district of Tai-Chung City (middle Taiwan). Many
parlors in Wan-Hua Dist. hired more or less Vietnamese
aged 30+ ( Aug. 2015).
◎
Generally
speaking, Thai. parlor's massage skill / performance is worse or
much worse than Taiwanese barber-shop girls'. Most of them can not or
just don't want to spend too much
energy on doing hard work by their fingers, some of them
said Zhi Ya too hard may causes dim-sighted
or Uterine
Prolapse (20 years ago, a major news
reported mainland Chinese masseuse is so
"professional
dedication" that eventually caused Uterine Prolapse,
but probably not any more in Thai massage
parlors nowadays! ), they prefer to earn
easy money-tips by "half-package" (hand
job) services
(another benefit for them is some guests may leave sooner)
usually ask NT500~1000 depends ( full package - sex
service, about
NT2,000-3,500 ). They usually
don't seduce customers by rising lips, a
tender
half-smile or flirtatious glance.
Adjusting dim light
50% turns all the masseuses into beauties,
their octopus fingers and hot body language (or direct
randy words), are their well-trained skills to boost
clients'
"demands", then the "preys" are
blinded to make a pass at them then toy with them. Those
female seem to be totally "women's liberation"
- not bound by old school, one
university-graduate girl was waiting in lobby for her
mother has "job" done (just like Japanese film <
Muddy River泥の河> ), that mother
later tried to persuade her daughter to do the "job" for
the customer.
◎
This sort of parlours are everywhere in Taiwan, in Taipei, most
of them are located in Zhongshan
District (around Min-Sen E. Rd. (Sec.2), Min-Sen
W. Rd., Min-Chuan E. Rd., Chang-chun Rd.,
Gi-Lin Road, etc) , Da-Tung District, WanHua
Dist. (Kun-Ming St.), also you can easily found some in sec. 4, Ba-de
Road and sec. 5, Nan-Gin E. Rd. , Hua-Shi Street
night-market tourism
area...... (Tea houses in lanes connecting
Hua Xi St. offer different kinds of sex transactions )
Few massage
parlors advertising themselves
"ancient/traditional Thailand (medical) massage
therapy "
are decorated with Thailand stuffs and some
specialist/expertise diplomas,
the
Thailand aroma smell greeted customers since customers went
through the entrance door.
Their women masseuses
spend bit more efforts and energy than erotic Thai parlors',
they all (almost all) look like middle-aged next-door house-wife's stereotype
―
bit fatty shape and not pretty face, even man-like
old "tom-boy", in
spite of their unattractive condition, some of them still
are willing to
offer more or less "extra service" for tips, or give customers
their
phone number in a dim light room, for instance, a parlor
in Min- X. Rd . Most of them are
mainland Chinese or immigrants from communist China,
maybe few of them are Thailand skilled teachers,
multi-racial
girls.
◎
If you like new experience, very few massage shops (e.g., Min-Zu W Rd
cross Da-lun St.) use hard-working
Vietnamese (both Northern and Southern Vietnam) only,
most of them are middle-aged, skilled masseuses.
The name "Thailand" seems has already been
stigmatized
in massage field,
but, few Thai. massage
shops solely hiring Thailand middle-aged women are
de-stigmatizing toward the dirty name. In
there, most Thai women do massaging with more
forces, more mechanical without an emotional hand,
and are proud of their "well-trained professional
tech." . These shops usually don't offer sex service,
and don't
have private room for individuals, instead, a large room separating with long
cotton curtains.
However, Thailand
masseuses
love to talk each other loudly in their own Thai. language while
working, so
sometimes or most time you may need an ear-plug to keep a peace of
mind. This sort of shops are located in,
e.g., Shin-Sen South Rd.
cross Jen-Ei Road(仁愛路), Nan-Gin E.
Rd. cross Jien-Guo North Road (Section 2), Min-Chua
E. Rd. cross Son-Jian Rd. , the one in Shi-Choun
St. (WanHua Dist.) has few private rooms for zhi-ya
service (closed '18) .
pic. : Taiwan's travel advertisement in middle
East, a phony or inappropriate piece?
1) Even massage parlors in Taipei's 5 star hotels are not
greenish at all,
let alone
enjoying
being
purified by the forest's unpolluted atmosphere,
besides,
u probably won't see Buda-arts
decorations appeared in many Western
hotels.
2)If
"full if green" functions analogical juxtaposition as
adjective/adverb
(e.g.,
studies show
forest bathing strengthens
the immune system), it's an ad for massage itself
(not exactly for TW),
tourists'
1st choice will be "leading brand" in massage
field. Most Taiwanese
massage
parlors got tiny & crowded space, some
basement smell ... or maybe some gas radon
or sweet germs inside?
not know how often they clean the filter of air
condition?
3) probably not too easy to do "Buddhist meditation"
there because next room
may be noisy.
4) Nude body to appeal tourists? NCCU professor
in Middle East advised it's no good.
Gov.
expressed Dubai chk the pic. already.
5) Not a clever or creative design just like
almost all ads made in Taiwan.
pic : a
street view, an ad.
of Thai Massage parlor
in Taipei
(泰尚皇)
★
pic. left: This massage parlor
near tourist site Taipei Circle
(圓環)
and police station make a large
board advertising ( metaphor
phrases like "sexual
happiness"(幸福), "coquetry",
"flirtatious"(風情) ) and a red
lantern being hanged at front
door (pls. ref. to world famous
Chinese film "Raise the Red
Lantern") to hint it may be a
porn business. However,
police seem ignore those signs,
have they ever check what's going on
inside?
Wikipedia's
interlink WikiSexGuide (Dec. 2018): One can find
prostitutes in massage parlors,
spas, salons in Taiwan.
Although prostitution remains
illegal in Taiwan, over 100,000
prostitutes are working, and
over 2 million clients pay for
sex. Apple Daily
12.25.2014: the percentage of
porn clients of all Taiwanese
adults ranks world No.1.
How's Taiwan's prostitutes
ranking? Are they pretty
enough to turn u on? Most working females in
massage parlors are "dama"
(middle-aged aunts)
from communist China. In
China, clients can
have very young (aged 20+-) and
fresh
prostitutes in the price of
USD30 or so, which is a lot
cheaper.
CovID-19 news:
news:
Holland's red-light district was closed for CoronaVirus,
in contrast, Taiwan's "entertainment" business are still
open, SET iNews (三立新聞) 3-19-2020: all "entertainment"
businesses (including massage parlour) has been low down
30%, girls in night clubs don't wear face mask, the
customers were check temperature before getting in.
SET (三立新聞) 3-11-2020: Due to CovID-19, 4 massage houses in
信義district have bad business (1/3 compared to before). GlobalNews(寰宇新聞)
Taiwan, 2-26-2020: Facing CoronaVirus, massage houses in
Yong Kang St. area (永康商圈)
only have 1 customer per day.
◎
★
(3)
Traditional massages:
hard-work massage, suppose
◎
Traditional massages usually do not offer naked sexual
services as Thai massage parlors do, although some
may offer something additional, or even more -
according to the Liberty Times (1-8-2016),
a masseuse in a popular night market (RaoHe Street) did
sexual assault (by fingers, and kissing) to a cute house
wife who was naked,
while doing "Essence Oil Massage"/"Aromatherapy"(油壓),
another case was happened in Taichung city, a masseuse
did similar things (ravaged
her pubic bone and private part)
to a aged 60+ female
principal, and hence was
charged sexual intercourse
by
using power, and was sentenced to 16 months by Supreme
Court (9-27-2016, Liberty Times) .
Taipei prosecutor office thinks
Aromatherapy doesn't need
to be total naked (Around the same time, a very popular
TV soap '天真遇到現實' of Communist China made an old-fashioned
country-side aunt feeling ashamed about stripping
herself naked to do
masseuse's
Essence Oil massage as a funny
punch-line ), Taipei women police office advised
better coming with a friend together and choosing a female
masseuse. Besides, CTV news (5-19-2017):
a woman customer was pricked by a needle for
bloodletting while being massaged. News and cases prove the
quality of Taiwanese massages varies.
Having an all-you-can-eat buffet in 5 star hotel
restaurant (lunch at Sheraton, Shangri-La's, etc ) costs
you about NT1000 in 2.5 - 3 hours, same money gives you
traditional massage in, usually, 80 minutes, barber
massage in about 60 minutes, are those
masseuse women
ranking 5 ~ 2,1,0 star? or do they have related
diploma ?
The number of "traditional massage" workers in Taiwan is
up to 100 thousands (Apple Daily, June 2015).
Customers usually expect massage-girls functional, instead
of 'ornamental'. For your best interest,
customers/clients may test
the therapist or
masseuse
if they have basic
knowledge, e.g., massaging calf (back side of lower leg)
promotes blood circulation and enhances metabolism to
keep us from illness,
or some important body-acupoints
link to which organ ? e.g., pressing san-yin-chiao may
releases menstrual pain, pressing zuo-san-lee is good
for our immunity system..., then you can know your
massage worker is a skilled teacher or just a cheap
labored coolie - who may hurts your health.
Quite some M.D.s in
長庚
hospital
co-worte
(May 2013)
<A Manual
Acupressure對症按摩圖典>, a guide
book with pictures, can be
your ref. to learn pressing certain acupressure for
certain illness as well as to
test the
massage-girl assigned to
you.
Traditional massage's price in Taiwan
is OK, but massage in China is cheaper,
Discovery
TLC
Samantha Brown
kept yelling too cheap when she enjoyed massage in
mainland China,
some city's (e.g., ZhuHai -
near Macau or Macao) street-side masseuses only ask
rmb20~30 per hour (brokers pass phone-card in street,
massage-worker to your hotel room), some country-side
girls work very hard too. So, I always push
Taiwan's masseuses press harder and harder - to keep
Taiwan's competitiveness.
◎
◎
5
star hotels:
Many 5 star
hotels in
Taipei (The Grand Hyatt, The W Hotel, the Shangri-La,
Regent, etc ) offer high class body treatments (massage) fit for royalty,
e.g., the Shangri-La's health club is at the 6th floor, Grand Hyatt's beauty salon
is at the 5th floor, they
provide many &
various business items, e.g., Hyatt hotel hair care (11 items, e.g., prof.
permanent, NT3000~5000), hand&feet care (5 items, e.g.,
foot whitening and peeling, NT1200), body treatment (8
items, e.g., full body aromatherapy, NT4500 per 2 hrs),
and facial treatment (6 items).
Beauty Salon of Hyatt
Taipei has
2 small massage rooms with 2 masseuse on staff (
Taiwanese, 10+ yrs experience, not
Hyatt employees, Hyatt outsource massage business to
outsider company, most 5
star hotels run massage business by the same way
- outsource to a
subordinate unit of
cosmetic products inc, etc,
), customers are requested
(optional) to wear
a small paper under-pant for essence oil massage.
Today, the masseuse massaged me by using lavender
lotion (free charge) imported from USA, and did not put too
much pressure on my body, because, she explained,
business-class Westerner travelers usually only want muscle
relaxing or/and lymphatic drainage,
they don't need very hard pressure on muscle or acupoint,
however, the room is perfect in privacy (most
traditional massage houses in Taiwan don't have very private
or complete-wall room
- hence lots of noises from next room ) for a completely relax/rest or
a nap for their very soft music
(sounds
like Bandari's ) and
dim light. When my hour was up, the masseuse
cleaned my body with hot towels. No tips needed in
here. (Nov. 2014)
If you are
5 star hotels over-night guests, usually the
hotel (I tried EVA Air hotel in Tai-Chung City, ps:
2015 AirlineRating.com: EVA Air ranking world no.7, Asia
no.1 ) you stay can call
a blind (or the visually
disabled)
female masseuse for
you, with economic price. EVA Air hotel
in Taipei provides fingers pressure (between medium and
hard) for whole session.
◎
BBC
Life Style, 2021-12-28 introduces SPA in Dubai's
top hotel asking 200 pounds per 50 min.,
comparatively, It's lots of cheaper in Taiwan
Massage
service in 5 star hotels in Taipei, Taiwan
(R.O.C.)
Mandarin Oriental
(東方文華)
hands/feet care
(手足護理保養) NT
2900 ~ NT 5200, tel: 02-2715-6990, CTN
2-10-2018;
trained
female masseuses ,
Essence
oil body massage (身體按摩精油芳療療程) NT5800/1.5hour,
10% plus, no Zhi-Yi (finger) service.
(Mar. 2015)
Westin
Taipei (六福皇宮)
female massagers (masseuse
on staff) at F9 spa;
essence oil massage only, no Zhi-Ya(指壓)
massage, NT5200 per 90 min., NT4000 per hour, NT2000 per half hour.
(May
2016, Dec.
2014)
Sheraton
(喜來登飯店)
Spa
massage for
over-night guests
and club
members
only.
(Dec.
2014)
Grand
Hyatt (君悅飯店) (5th fl.)
masseuse; both essence oil massage and Zhi-Ya(指壓) massage, NT2500
per hour, NT3500 per 90 minutes. essence
oil free. (Dec.
2014)
Shangri-La's
(遠東飯店) (6th fl.)
female
massagers (usually masseuse, if you don't
particularly order a male
masseur) ; both essence oil massage and Zhi-Ya(指壓) massage
provided,
NT2800 per hour, NT1500 per 30 minutes.
(Dec.
2014)
Regent
(晶華酒店)
沐蘭Spa:
female massagers, Essence oil body
massage(身體按摩精油芳療療程)NT4620. ( Mar. 2015)
Sherwood
(西華飯店) (20F)
essence
oil massage only, NT3500
per hour, NT5200 fr. 90 min.,
masseuses aged 30+.
(May 2016, early 2015)
Howard
(福華飯店) (4F
Spa)
masseuse
(with certificate);
both essence oil massage and Zhi-Ya(指壓) massage, NT2800
per hour, NT3600 per 1.5 hour, Germany organic
essence oil (Lpold) for free.
(Dec.
2014)
NT1500 per 60 min. for male customers in hair salon (May
2016)
EVA Air
Hotel (長榮酒店)
Bing Spa
at F1,
senior masseuses, NT3300 for
60 minutes, NT4400 90 min., fingers pressure
(between medium and hard, usually) for whole session,
basically. (May
2016, Dec.
2014)
Lemeridien
(艾美酒店)
no
massage available. (nov. '14)
◎
Pic above: Hyatt Hotel
massage room with treatment equipments,
white part is massage bed.
Pic
above: very soft music and dim light are good
for a completely rest.
◎ ◎
<Royal Thai> Massage house (www.tgd.com.tw)
has branches in Taipei as well as in Tai-chung
city, although namely "Royal", their house is not a
"palace", but a small-space apartment well decorated
with Thailand flavors. Their private-room price is NT2100 for 2 hours
―
doing pedicure & foot massage, royal massage, back
massage & spa, relaxing massage at head neck and
shoulder, full body assisted Yoga. The major
difference between <Royal Thai> and <6-star Foot Massage
Villa Spa> is Thailand massage VS. Chinese massage, Thai
massage likes to do Yoga style pull & bend & stretch
your body/muscle tendon/sinew, Chinese style massage
mostly do Zhi Ya (press by fingers) and squeezing,
rubbering.
This shop
declared by ads. on the net that they are ambitious to
break through the 'ecologic environment' of current market, and to
clear masseuses' reputation
(objective is to be respectable massage-girls as Euro.
masseuses are
).
◎
◎
<6-star Foot
Massage Villa
Spa> (六星集) http://www.footmassage.com.tw/ is
another widely-known massage house here in Taiwan, the
branch in Nan-Gin E. Rd. (section 5) got most number of
workers - 80 ~ 100 or so, they do all kinds of
traditional Chinese/Taiwanese massage items ( e.g., ◆
cupping
therapy拔罐、◆
Scraping
- a popular treatment for sunstroke by scraping the
patient's neck, chest or back
刮痧、◆
Reflexology足疗、◆凍甲、◆
pedicure削腳皮)
as well as foot massage, essence body massage etc,
price starting from NT200 up to NT2600+,
Whole body massage including service charge is about NT2400 per 2 hours,
oil massage costs you NT3600 per 2 hours, private room (TV, wash-room, lock door, 2-4 beds, etc )
costs NT200 additional
(but no reservation allowed), here suggest you make a phone-call
reservation for a masseuse, heavy-work massage
girls usually work at night time. In here all
masseuse and masseur
wear mask while working to protect customers. My experience in
here is
: the girl is very polite, attentive, and did an excellent job for every second on Zhi Ya"/"Acupressure"
―
manual pressure to a specific point/ muscle
tendon /
Meridian / sinew
(筋络)
with fingers/hands.
◎
pic. above: Chinese style massage chair - Foot
Massage Villa Spa,
Best known Chinese
style massage in
Taiwan. (Nan-Gin E. Rd., sec. 5)
pic. above:
No.1 "massage in
Taiwan" on Google, test at 6-5-2015
No1. ranking by
Chinese keyword "massage in Taiwan" on Google,
2-11-2016
◎
◎ Hua-Shi Street (華西)
tourist night market has
turned "Snake street" into "Massage street", you can
find cheaper-price (whole body massage about NT800 for 1
hr., NT1400~1600 for 2 hrs., one store offers min. price only NT400 per
hr. - you walk out of Hua-Xi Str., turn right, about
100m. distance) traditional massage houses in there as well as lots
of Thai erotic/porn massage parlors around there. Hua-Shi
Street was widely known for its very-cheap-price sexual
transactions with underage/teens 20 yrs. ago, are they still up
to the same old? Most lonely ones may enter lanes around
or Thai. parlors for
cheap sex trade. How about traditional
massage houses? Recently (middle
'15) I randomly
chose 4 samples out of 10+ traditional massage shops in Hua-Shi
street, 2 of them can offer "half package" sex service
(ps: try 'phenix', I saw a cute Vietnamese with
reclining posture in the
lobby couch for selection ), the other 2
did something bit "extra" to me while doing 2 hrs. body massage,
most masseuse
are aged 30~50 women from local and
red China, usually red Chinese are more willing to work
harder for more money, but both sides some workers may have work-ethics problem, or Taiwan has not been up to int'l level yet
- they don't give full efforts by fingers, etc.
A Chinese saying: 'just one bite can tell a bad egg',
however, one bad egg can tell other eggs in the box are
bad too?
◎ ◎
Another
known tourist district, Shi-Mun Din (西門町, e.g.,
Kun-Ming St. etc), has
many massage houses aiming tourists, a
number of parlors of them looking like regular
massage house, offer sex service with cheap price -
about NT500 tips for half package, NT2000 for
full package.
◎ ◎ Lee B.H. massage chain-store
(李炳輝) is another masstige
(mass-popular) product positioning & marketing
fragmentation massage house in Taiwan ―
economic price (whole body
massage NT1200 fr 1.5 hr ~ NT1350
fr. 2 hrs. / Nov. 2016 ) and worth the value
policy, Gi-Lin
branch (red Chinese masseuse aged 30-56, 2~3
beds in each very simple
& basic
decoration room) probably is better than other branches
(西門Shi-Mun headquarter has more Taiwanese workers ), however,
according to my limited experiences ( with 8+ massage girls
there), most
of them used
their elbow (or/and feet) for half (or more) session ( don't use their fingers for hard
pressure), as for service manner, comparatively speaking, is worse than that of 6-star Foot-Massage
Villa Spa (just like flight attendant's service). Others
may be better, I don't know, they have lots of massage
girls.
◎ ◎ Shih-Lin Night Market /
3 brands are in here,
(1) Fly-Far is different from almost all other Taiwanese
massage parlors in 3 aspects (middle 2015):
<1> Customers (unless familiar customers) are
requested to pay before having massage service, so that
you can't change the package ordered
(e.g., you are not allowed to cut 2 hour massage
ordered shorter, say 1.5 hour) if you are not satisfied
with masseuses, the room, noises, air-condition,
masseuse's cough, etc. This is quite different
from almost all other massage business in Taiwan.
<2> Fly-Far owns 4 branches (very closer to each other,
all in Wen-Lin Rd.) with different
positioning & marketing fragmentation, so as to earn
both low-end and high-end customers. However,
customer can (may) order branch No.3's (higher price)
masseuse
to serve in branch No.5 (lower price, NT 1080 for 1.5
hrs. ), branch No.3's decoration is same or better than
branch No.2's ( No.2's suites in 2nd floor are separated
by just a simple screen, but No.3's suites are separated
by wooden "wall" - although those are not
"completed" walls giving you complete privacy - you may
still hear noises , cough next doors ), but No.2's price (NT2000
for 2 hrs., NT1500 for 1.5 hrs.) is higher than No.3's
price (NT1200 for 1.5 hrs.). According to my
only twice
experiences, the massage ways in higher-price branch is
about same as those in lower-price branch.
<3> There's no store 4, because "4" is an unlucky number
in Chinese culture, according to a masseuse's phrase.
(2) Teacher Gee (or "Chi") 's lobby looks bit messy, particular
in floor 2 and 3, Maybe that's the way to earn more
money, because Fly-Far's massage girl told
(may be just a joke) me some
customers avoid their store No.2 or No.3 because they
guess good decoration
probably costs them more money, therefore they selected
Fly-Far store No.1
or Teacher Gee.
(3)
EverGreen (萬年青)/ No private room, cheaper price
(afternoon price : NT1000 for 1.5 hrs), some
massage women are aged 60-70.
PS: Two
new shops were opened around here in June 2018.
◎
◎ Shin-Ann (信安) massage house (http://www.信安按摩中心.tw/ ) is
the most widely known blind massage place, with price
NT600 per hour, I tried one branch in Shin-Ee Rd., the
fat and strong body masseuse can not
do strong zhi-yi (hard finger pressure), another one
looking cool, slender was doing shoulder massage for a
Westerner. Blind massages usually can be found in
large hospitals (e.g., 榮總), with same price NT600 per hr., but
according to studies, lots of germs/virus were found in
the air over there.
◎
◎
Teacher Deng (鄧師傅,
http://teacherdeng.com.tw/s?p=sfmr&n=2 ) is another widely known chained
massage store with about 20 branches in Kao-Hsiung,
Tai-Nan, TaoYuan, Sin-Chu, etc, both Zhi-Yi and
Oil (oil price not included) body massages ask same price, NT2200 per
2 hours. Being different from
Lee Bin Huea stores,
Deng's don't like to use communist Chinese
masseuse, in
their Gin-Lin store, only 2 from red China.
Their spacious hall lounge decorates traditional wooden
sculpture arts, but the very bright-light massage rooms
are not furnished very stylish (at least not suit my
taste).
◎
◎ Raohe St. Night Market , Taipei Circle
At least 5 massage houses
in RaoHe Street, if my memory served, the house at
No.100 has very private rooms with simple locks, No.107
is blind-people massages, some others are in No.99 and
No.52. I look around (not paying too much
attention) in Taipei Circle last year, I saw lots of
Thai massage parlors there, and only one traditional
massage.
◎
◎ TomHua St. business circle
Around
5 massage houses
in TomHua(通化) Street, totally about 8 including lanes
there. Be careful about "puncture discount" NT1000
for 1.5 hours (Nov. 2016), you get no discount if
you don't have cell-phone for some codes. There're
a few massage houses ( one blind massage) in LinJian
(臨江) night market.
◎◎ 6 Diao Tong business circle :
this place that Japanese tourists favored has around 10
massage shops, including barber massage and traditional
massage shops.
◎
◎ ◎
滋和堂 :
Popular to
tourists. Here is filled with Japanese tourists
before 16 pm, Korean tourists after 16 pm, usually.
The body massage price for int'l tourists is about NT700
for half hour, the masseuse serving me said they don't
have higher income per hour because the travel agents
taking some "commission", local customer price is NT1000
per hour, the masseuses are proud of having "higher
class" customers (Sakura
masseuses said so too),
but customers wanting
strong pressure may not like their fingers -
probably they use their feet, and may not be very heavy
(some are slender or skinny) . I only tried once at Oct.
28, 2017, so, no idea about others.
◎
◎
Di-Hua Street (迪化街):
Knife massage reported by LA Times (2015) can be found
in here, you can have 5-minutes free try, call
0938-514-588。
Oct. 29, 2017
◎
◎
Nom-Ann, De-Hui Street (德惠,
農安街 etc
): this area has lots
of various massage shops.
◎
◎
A Japanese expert in
massaging, 淺井隆彥, expresses in his book <圖解油壓按摩教本> that
Oriental massage emphasizes pressing by fingers,
however, most
masseuse
I met prefer to use their elbow or even feet most of
time, because, either they don't have such 'muscle' to
do a heavy job or just want to save some energy to earn
more money, while dealing with a stronger-muscle
customer like me.
Besides,
Even in some regular
healthy massage center, you may have chance to
get "something" extra, but If you prefer pretty face and good shape, probably
better try Taiwanese style massage barber shops, you may
have more
chances to see young and pretty dolls (more likely not
fresh enough) in some shops there.
Pic. :
body massage (Dragon-phoenix
Town Thai Parlor)
ads. are everywhere in Taipei;
many Vietnamese, Communist
Chinese girls/women entered this
market
Pic. :
foot massage - Hua-Shi Street
hard working girls / masseuse
concentrated on customers' feet
pic:Lee (李炳輝)
masseuse's
bruised elbow fr. some yrs. massaging
This sites was ranked No.1 on Bing by keyword
"Taiwan massage" in Chinese.
Those upper ones are ads.
pic.
black-glass-front-door barber shops offer
massage/'entertainment' services by aged women
looking bit like house wives, those shops being
less competitive than Thai parlors most are
located near Taipei main station.This shop
already changed a new name after this site
reported it. / Jan. 2016.
◎◎
Massage houses in
tourist districts
◆ Shi-Mun Din,西門町
◆ Hua-Shi Street Night Market
◆ Shih-Lin Night Market
Parlors
contacts
Hua-Shi
Street
◆
龍鳳城02-23023898,
銀座02-23361185,
祿承坊02-23023428,
名軒02-23360505,
美麗人生02-23022122,
名家02-23360867,
漢峰02-23082884,
帝王02-23027252
天信堂02-23082301,
etc
Shi-Mun Din,西門町
◆
李炳輝
02-23890828
royal bali
02-66308080,
Kun-Ming St. (昆明) 82
東方
02-23832283
足強
02-23118839
金興發
02-23754210 (clsd '15)全方位23719677
朝日
02-23897705
大都會
Kome-Din Rd. (康定) 240
大腳丫
02-23148383
善園
Kome-Din Rd. (康定) 234
大上海
Chung-Hua Rd. (中華) sec.2, 69
etc
Shih-Lin Night Market
◆
Fly-Far 飛來發/ pavilion 1:
02-2881-4582 (ask them the phone of
pavilion 2~5)
Teacher Gee 紀老師/ cell phone 0939096688
萬年青/ 士林夜市基河路1(No.1, Gi-Ho Rd., Shih-Lin)
pic above : Best-known Thai massage in Taiwan.
◎
ending:
Taiwanese massages
really have competitiveness?
1.
Many masseuse
are just Coolie doing hard
manual work.
You may give a quiz to some masseuse
or massagers,
e.g., only one acupuncture point, but
many reflex points at bottom of each foot. One mainland
Chinese masseuse told me she can't
pass my examination about
acupressure (Acupoint,
Meridian, etc) is because she is
an illiterate person (can't read Chinese language).
2.
Mainland (communist) Chinese masseuse
like to laugh or say Taiwanese
masseuse
can't or/and don't work too hard.
Indeed, most red Chinese are willing to work longer and
harder, for money.
3.
Japanese expert in massage
日本淺井隆彥's
book <圖解油壓按摩教本> points out: Western massages
usually use palm (手掌), Eastern massages usually use
finger-tips(指尖) and finger-pulp(指腹) etc. According to my experience, most
masseuse in Taiwan, no matter
Taiwanese or communist Chinese, don't use their
fingers a lot, most of time they use elbow or even feet if you
need harder-press.
Business
Insider (June, 2015) ignores Taiwanese massage while introducing
Taiwan's tourism & travel.
4.
Most or almost all traditional massage parlors (except 5 star hotel
massage salons) decorated not well, or too basic,
simple, crude,
and not private at all, you may hear noises from next
"unit" (not "room", usually units are very close, and
are separated by just a cotton curtain) sometimes or most of time, not to mention
enjoying oriental
Zen atmosphere or Chinoiserie chic decor.
5.
Discovery
TLC
Samantha Brown was too happy about price when she enjoyed massaging in
red China,
in contrast, Taiwan's price is not so competitive, and
Taiwan style massage is not as creative as those in China. China offers
too many subterfuge or "cute" selling-points, e.g.,
"The Secret of
Honourable imperial Princess consort Yáng
" in XiAnn (西安「楊貴妃的秘密」)
and various spa items, e.g., almond
frosting-surface
spa, fruit
Punica
granatum
spa,
Paeonia
suffruticosa
flower spa.
(牡丹杏仁磨砂spa或石榴spa).
Taxi drivers told me Chinese tourists won't do massages
in Taiwan for money's sake. Taiwan
probably is not competitive
with some other Asian countries -
Asia Travel channel (亞洲旅遊台) at 3-3-2018 8:20pm
introduced a massage shop in Thailand with various items
and low price - about NT500 (less than USD 20) for 2
hours.
6. work ethics
in Taiwan. besides, some masseuses
had wet-cough or coughed up phlegm.
One masseuse told me they just want to survive and make
money while facing politics.
7.
You want playgirls ? more choices in
China, more cool and fresh looking in Korea, more
expensive in Japan. just common sense!
8. Tourists may be confused erotic/porn parlors
and traditional massage places, although Taiwan's major media
reported that, unlike
foreign massage businesses or barber shops, many local
massage businesses tried to add
"something extra". It probably is
not too difficult to even get a blind female massager
who is willing to give or sell you a "half-package"
service (~2016).
Lots of Taiwanese
famous & rich people love to enjoy massaging, e.g., former president
Lee 李登輝(by 按摩師朱素心)、
former president Ma's mother ( Huang
massage shop at 1st floor of his
apartment), former
PM Dr. Lien 連戰(朱素心)、VIP politician Song 宋楚瑜(朱素心)、 KMT
politician leader連勝文妻蔡依珊(健康生活館)
、Kaohsiung mayor (now head Control Yuan) Chen 高雄市長陳菊也靠按摩復健養生(<Apple
Daily>, 9.9.2014)、and
other top ranking politicians like 關中(朱素心)、陳亭妃等立委與多名台南市議員及副議長(御手國醫養生會館http://www.e111.com.tw/)、
涂醒哲etc (維納斯養生館與櫻花養生館)、余政憲(明眼按摩師)等
(ref. to
<Want Weekly 周刊王>,2015, No.041-page22).
You Wang (王又曾) to L.A.百草堂 massage shop
each week (<Apple
Daily >,
May 2016)
About 20 years ago, Taiwan's current leader laughed at
the US's having taken a
"hypocrite"
way to treat erotic/porn business
issue, nowadays, Taiwan is a
"hypocrite"
(or, suspiciously, even as an
accomplice
in
the criminal structure) too
―
Taiwanese government play
deaf-mute on sex service everywhere. Apple Daily
News (Nov. 5, 2011) reported by its head-page: the sex industry's annual
value of production is at least NT 6000 million (USD
200 million)
2014)
reported a huge
prostitution base is Taiwan police station's
neighborhood, but policemen gave "pass" to it,
everybody got away with illegal transactions
(警局旁就是大淫窟，警察也不抓)
Apple
Daily News (April 12, 2014)
, according to what the reporter saw - massage girls in Taipei
"all do
prostate-care", "Lymphatic drainage",
equally half-package sexual
service (都會從事被稱為「攝護腺保養」、「淋巴排毒.
」等半套性服務).
originally written on Mar. 2015,
updated May 2016. (may bit add new things later)
ps1:
Taiwan's
population is about 23 million, population of male
between 15 and 65 is about 8.6 million, the number of
person-time as sex industry patrons (whoremasters) is about 30
million per year.
ps2:
Chinese version:
Taiwan massage
(more precise, exact meanings)
ps3: This article writer has not
visited all massage parlors in Taipei, Taiwan.
pic. :The
web-sites group was ranked No.1 "Taiwanese
massage "
on Yandex of Russia,
2022-2-13,
2021-12-28,
2021-10-19, 2021-7-24, 2021-6-2
pic.: No.1 "Taiwanese
massage" on Baidu of China, 2022-2-13,
2021-12-28, 6-21-2020
pic. :The
web-sites group was ranked No.1
"Taiwanese
massage "
on Baidu of China,
2022-2-12,
2021-10-19, 2021-7-23, No. 2 at 2021-5-9
pic. :The
web-sites group was ranked No.1 "Taiwan's
massage "
on Yandex of Russia,
2022-2-13,
2021-12-28,
2021-10-19, 2021-7-23, No.2 at 2021-5-22
pic. :The
web-sites-group was ranked No.1 "Taiwan's
foot rub " or "Taiwanese foot rub" on DuckDuckGo,
2021-10-19, 2021-7-23, 2021-5-13
pic.
right: No.3 "Taiwanese
massage " on Microsoft Bing at
2021-5-12; among top ranks on Bing ,
2020-12-6
pic. : No.1
"massage in Taiwan" (Chinese version) on DuckDuckGo,
2021-5-12;
pic. :The
web-sites group was ranked No.1 "Taiwanese
massage"
on DuckDuckGo, 2021-7-23, No.2 at
2021-10-19, 2021-5-12
This sites-group was ranked
No. 1
on US Bing by
"Taiwan
massage" , and "Taiwanese massage"
at 5-16-2019, 9-23-2018,
2-2-2018,
12-4-2017
pic. on the left :
This site ranks
No. 1
on Google by "Taiwan
massage" or "massage in Taiwan" in Chinese,
at 6-17-2017, 12-25-2014
pic.: This site was ranked
No.1 on Yandex of Russia by
keyword "Taiwanese Massage" at 2-21-2018
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Related
articles (int'l & local):
★
Université de Montréal
Prostate cancer risk reduced by sleeping with many women, but
increased with many men
Compared to men who have had only one partner during their lifetime, having
sex with more than 20 women is associated with a 28% lower risk of one day being
diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to researchers at the University of
Montreal and INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier. However, having more than 20 male
partners in one's lifetime is associated with a twofold higher risk of getting
prostate cancer compared to those who have never slept with a man.
Marie-Elise Parent and Marie-Claude Rousseau, professors at university's School
of Public Health, and their colleague Andrea Spence, published their findings in
the journal Cancer Epidemiology. The results were obtained as part of the
Montreal study PROtEuS (Prostate Cancer & Environment Study), in which 3,208 men
responded to a questionnaire on, amongst other things, their sex lives. Of these
men, 1,590 were diagnosed with prostate cancer between September 2005 and August
2009, while 1,618 men were part of the control group... full text
pls. refer to www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/
(國外最新研究指，發生性關係愈多，罹攝護腺癌風險愈低，若女伴累積逾二十人，風險可降兩成八，得其他致死率較高的癌症風險也可減一成九。...
加拿大蒙特利爾大學(蒙特婁大學 Université de Montréal)問卷調查該校約三千兩百名，參與「攝護腺癌與環境研究」者，分析其性生活頻率與該癌相關性，獲上述結果。
研究推論若射精頻率高，恐致癌的有毒物質不易堆積在攝護腺，而性伴侶多，射精數應會增加。研究另發現，獨身者得攝護腺癌風險，比有伴者高約五成；...
)
★ Harvard University : Frequent Ejaculation May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
May 19, 2015
(ref to MedicalDaily)
Men who ejaculated at least 21 times a month
reduced their risk for prostate cancer by 20 percent compared to men who
ejaculated four to seven times a month.
It's important to note frequent ejaculation was associated with
incident prostate cancer, not risk for what researchers consider lethal
prostate cancer.
Research from the late 70s that found mortality risk was 50 percent lower
among men who had frequent orgasms (two or more per week), even when
controlling for other factors such as age and smoking.
★
Next Magazine (Taiwan)
Nov. 13, 2014
(No.703)
Vietnamese brides
happy camp in Tai-chung City
New Taipei city found out
the percentage of foreign brides is about 2%, up to 30%
of them fails to accommodate Taiwan's life, hence a dark
power kept enticing/tempting (by money) those weak people to fall
into prostitution world...
The density of massage parlors inside Da-Li district &
Tai-Ping district (大里、太平) of Tai-Chung City (台中市) is
almost the highest in Taiwan, we can name this area as
Vietnamese brides major prostitution base in Taiwan.
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★ WebMD
Massage Therapy
Styles and
Health
Benefits (brief)
1. More than
one study has shown the effectiveness of massage
therapy for back pain.
2. Massage therapy can reduce the number of
migraines a person has and also improve sleep.
3. osteoarthritis a one-hour massage
either one or two times a week had improvements
in pain, stiffness, and function 4. Cancer: Used as a complement to
traditional, Western medicine, massage can
promote relaxation and reduce cancer symptoms or
side effects of treatment. It may help reduce
pain, swelling, fatigue, nausea, or depression,
for example, or improve the function of your
immune system
5.massage helps relieve depression and anxiety.
http://www.webmd.com/balance/massage-therapy-styles-and-health-benefits?page=3
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★Michigan State
University
Published: Nov. 12, 2012
Ancient foot massage
technique may ease cancer
symptoms
A study led by a Michigan
State University researcher
offers the
strongest
evidence yet that
reflexology – a type of
specialized foot massage
practiced since the age of
pharaohs – can help cancer
patients manage their
symptoms and perform daily
tasks.
... it is the
first large-scale, randomized study of
reflexology as a complement to standard cancer
treatment...
Reflexology is
based on the idea that
stimulating specific
points on the feet can improve the functioning
of corresponding organs, glands and other parts
of the body.
...
reflexology’s effects appeared to be primarily
physical, not psychological.
Don't do massage when you're too full or
starving (吃太飽或太餓不適合按摩，否則促進腸道蠕動，會造成傷害)
Starting from left foot (建議由左腳開始)
Pregnant women don't do stronger massage (孕婦按摩太刺激會讓子宮收縮)
having warm water after massage (按摩後口渴，可喝溫開水，因需水份以代謝血管淋巴腺內的廢物)
Trying
to get rid of bruising by hot water pad (按摩後瘀青，可能因下肢血液循環差，務必熱敷之，將瘀血代謝掉)
Don't do foot massage if your foot wounded ( 腳上有傷口不不適合腳底按摩)
It's normal
that tired people feel more tired after massage
(疲勞的人按摩後特別累，因過程中要將疲倦因子釋放，疲累為代謝這些因子之故)
advice above by M.D.卓雨青
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★
Massaging calf keeps
us from illness
The deep veins of the lower legs are situated in
the muscles of the calf , and when compressed by muscular contraction , the non
- return valves cause a pumping effect ( the muscle pump ) aiding the return of
blood ... So, calf plays the role of human's heart, it promotes blood
circulation and enhances metabolism to keep us from illness...Try it 5 or 10
minutes per day, it will be helpful to you, after massaging, pls. drink one
bottle of water. details
pls. ref. to
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/supplement/paper/865937 or the author's
(槙孝子)book.
...The heavy blade can reach deeper than fingers alone, and practitioners
believe the conductive steel can remove "negative energy" from the body. The
result, Wu said, is less insomnia, better circulation and relief from sore
muscles. ..."We always tell clients it's not about how hard you are being hit;
it's also about the transfer of energy, the transfer of chi,"
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★ Apple Daily News, Taiwan , April
12, 2014 (brief)
Massage girls in Taipei all can do
"prostate-care", "Lymphatic drainage", actually "half-package" sex service...
Expert advised massage
service won't do any good to
cure your prostate...
Chinese version: 《蘋果》近日在台北市與新北市直擊發現，舒壓按摩小姐都會從事被稱為「攝護腺保養」、「淋巴排毒」等半套性服務，且「加入後業績成長3成！」按摩小姐做半套時，反而擔心服務不周遭客人上網投訴...
...一開始便先幫記者抹上嬰兒油做油壓，還得意自稱：「我可是有按摩師執照的！」並表示：「90分鐘1600元含半套，再加1000元，可全裸按摩做淋巴排毒！」...
北市按摩職業工會理事長盧江葦解釋，正統按摩技術是以經穴學與解剖學原理，以揉捏、扣打等推拿按摩，使肌肉放鬆，攝護腺的問題通常出現在久坐、長期使用造成老化、緊繃，「平常需自行保養，無法透過按摩治療。」強調並無淋巴排毒或攝護腺保養等噱頭及手法。
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★ FoxNews: Cancer patients feel less distress after massage
therapy, study finds
FoxNews.com
The stress-relieving benefits of massage have been well documented, but a
recent study shows that massage may have more profound benefits that just
relieving stress and relaxing tight muscles.
The study, published in the journal BMJ, looked at the benefits of
massage for brain cancer
patients. To be expected, these patients often suffer from neurological
problems, which affect their physical functioning, their cognitive abilities
and their psychological well-being.
They also have to deal with the progressive nature of their illness and
difficult treatments like radiation, surgery and chemotherapy. Brain cancer
patients typically report a high prevalence of depression and other mental
disorders.
In this study, 25 brain tumor patients who were classified as
“distressed” received a massage twice a week for four weeks. At the end of
week four, the distress scores for all participants were below the threshold
for experiencing distress. In other words, the factors leading to their
diagnosis faded away.
“This is more significant than I would have expected,” said Dr. Keri
Peterson, a spokesperson for the American Massage Therapy Association.
What’s more, the issues these patients reported as “concerns” for them
prior to the massage were no longer worrisome by the end of the four weeks.
At the baseline assessment before the massages began, at least 75 percent
of participants reported the following items of concern: sadness, worry,
fatigue, nervousness, pain, sleep and getting around. At least 50 percent
reported concerns with insurance, fears, depression, dry or itchy skin,
work, transportation, eating, constipation, tingling in hands and feet, and
nausea.
At the end of week four, only 50 percent of patients reported concerns
with fatigue. All the other sources of concern were felt by 40 percent or
fewer of the participants. For example, while 100 percent of participants
reported sadness at the onset of the study, only 40 percent reported sadness
after four weeks of massage. The reduction in worries led to improved
emotional, social and physical well-being.
However, when the massages were discontinued, the improvements began to
fade, although they still scored better than before the study started.
Cancer patients have nearly twice the risk of developing psychiatric
distress compared to the general population, and the benefits of massage may
extend to those with other types of cancer as well.
Peterson said it’s important to go to a licensed massage therapist. You
can find one through
AMTA's website. Be sure to tell the therapist what your goals are,
Peterson added.
A massage to relieve back pain is different than one that will reduce
stress and improve one's well-being
While massage appears promising
for symptom management and improving quality of life,
available scientific evidence does not support claims that
massage slows or reverses the growth or spread of cancer. A
growing number of health care professionals recognize
massage as a useful addition to conventional medical
treatment. In a 1999 publication, the National Cancer
Institute found that about half of their cancer centers
offered massage as an adjunctive therapy to cancer
treatment. Some studies of massage for cancer patients
suggest that it can decrease stress, anxiety, depression,
pain, and fatigue. These potential benefits hold great
promise for people who have cancer, who often must deal with
the stresses of a serious illness in addition to unpleasant
side effects of conventional medical treatment. While some
evidence from research studies with cancer patients supports
the use of massage for short-term symptom relief, additional
research is needed to find out if there are measurable,
long-term physical or psychological benefits.
Meanwhile, most patients do
indeed seem to feel better after massage, which may result
in substantial relief. A 2005 review of research reported
that massage therapy has been shown to reduce pain and
anxiety in randomized controlled trials. Large,
well-controlled studies are still needed to determine the
long-term health benefits of massage.
A special type of massage called
manual lymph drainage (MLD) is done as part of Complex
Decongestive Therapy (CDT), which is used to treat
lymphedema after certain cancer surgeries. CDT also
includes external compression garments, special exercises,
and skin care. This treatment is usually done by lymphedema
specialists rather than general-practice massage therapists.
Studies suggest that outcomes of this 4-part treatment can
be very good if started early enough.
Are there any possible problems
or complications?
People with rheumatoid arthritis,
cancer that has
spread to the bone, spine injuries, osteoporosis,
or other bone diseases that could be worsened by physical
manipulation should
avoid physical manipulation or
deep pressure.
Manipulation of a bone that is already weakened by cancer
metastasis could result in a bone fracture. People who have
had radiation therapy may find even light touch on the
treatment area to be uncomfortable. A few people have
allergic reactions to lotions or oils used during massage,
and this may be more common among patients receiving
radiation treatment.
Patients with low blood platelet
counts (a common side effect of
chemotherapy) or who are taking blood-thinning medication
such as warfarin (Coumadin) may be susceptible to easy
bruising and should
ask their doctor whether massage is safe for them.
Another concern for people who
have cancer is that, in theory,
tissue manipulation
in the area of a tumor might increase the risk that cancer
cells will travel to other parts of the body. It
might be prudent for cancer patients to
avoid massage near
tumors and lumps that could be cancerous until this
question is clearly answered.
People with cancer and chronic
conditions such as arthritis
and heart disease should consult their physicians before
undergoing any type of therapy that involves manipulation of
joints and muscles. Massage should be provided by
a trained
professional with expertise in working safely with
people with cancer and with cancer survivors. It is
important that the massage therapist know about your cancer
and its treatment. Generally,
gentle massage and bodywork can be adapted to meet
the needs of cancer patients.
It is also important for people
who have cancer to let their medical care provider know they
are receiving massage. Family members and other caregivers
can be instructed in certain massage techniques as well.
Relying on this treatment alone
and delaying or avoiding conventional medical care for
cancer may have serious health consequences.
A 55 years-old woman doing her
tui-na (massage) job for a long term while her young-girl time resulted in
prolapse of
uterine, bladder, rectal,
leakage of urine, and urinate once per hour, etc, even can't make love ......
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★United Daily News
7.27.2014
Brief : Taiwan's the oldest profession,
prostitution sexual transaction, includes -
(1.) massage shops actually doing something extra, (2.)
call-girls manipulating by agents, (3.) individual working studio
or so-called one-woman
brothel
(「一樓一鳳」).
Taiwan passes a crackdown law in 2011 (Under the new policy, both the
sex workers and patrons/guests are subject to fines ranging from
NT$1,500 (USD$50) to NT$30,000 for engaging in paid sex outside the
permissible vicinity.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/11/16/the-trouble-with-taiwans-new-prostitution-rules/
)
an
informer/a stool pigeon, and police failed to get
any prostitutes.
過去，有警員光靠嫖客當線民，一個月內可抓到賣淫案上百件，贏得功獎；有的小姐一個月被抓四次，在外碰到員警還主動打招呼，搞得警察太太當場質問「這女的是誰」？如今，嫖客不配合，這種狀況已不復見。
資深員警指出，台北市賣淫業有三大類，一是「掛羊頭賣狗肉」he
cries wine and sells vinegar false advertising 的按摩店或養生館，二是有「雞頭」安排性交易的應召站，三是小姐自設個人工作室的「一樓一鳳」；查緝按摩店及應召站大都要長期布線，查緝一樓一鳳性交易案成為基層員警主要績效來源。
不過，個人工作室大都隱身在大樓套房內，常需「雙重認證」才能讓賣淫女子開門。所謂雙重認證是指嫖客想買春，打電話給小姐後，要報上介紹人的手機和年齡，對方向介紹人確認無誤，才能上樓，如果查證發現不實，這通撥入的電話號碼就會被列為「黑名單」，永不接聽。警方通常會在查獲色情後，吸收嫖客當線民充當介紹人，取得認證後直搗淫窟。過去，嫖客不罰，賣淫女子被抓後要驗血檢查有無染病，嫖客大多願意配合，如今「娼嫖都罰」was
arrested and charged with being a common ，嫖客大都不太願意協助警方查緝。警方說，現在查緝性交易，沒有線民就「土法煉鋼」在可疑大樓前守望，看到可疑男子找門牌號碼，就設法跟進大樓，確認他進入哪間房，再埋伏於大樓樓梯間，躲過個人工作室設置的錄影監視鏡頭，於性交易完成後「搶門」盤查，再依違反社會秩序維護法裁罰。資深員警指出，查緝性交易案過去由派出所設置專案組，市警局憂心風紀問題，於今年三月裁掉專案組，改編制在分局行政組轄下，不定期查緝色情。
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★
Famous Taiwanese MD 榮總副院長陳威明 <文音時間> :
Massaging may cause cancer cells spreading to other part of your body, this
was published in intl paper already .
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★ The Liberty Times (Taiwan), 2-13-2016
Some cell-phone's software
like
「LINE」、「WeChat」、「BeeTalk」、「SKOUT」、「Badoo」、「Paktor拍拖」、「遇見」etc has become "media"
for calling prostitutes.
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★
The 'ecology' of
trans-national
call-girl/sex trafficking rings in Taiwan,
Next Magazine (壹周刊) 3.26.2015 No.722
The "ecology" of call-girls rings
in Taiwan changed with domestic society situations,
the
market of sexual transactions with economic-priced call girls - red Chinese and
South-Eastern Asian remains stable,
sex-industry
agents irregularly import secondly
(not top class) international models (price NT10,000~100,000+ for each deal)...
Each foreign call girl has sex with 5-10 groups of customers per day,
most of those customers are high ranking officials in top
100 business, or Taiwan's glitterati,
spoiled rich second generation
born with a silver spoon in one's mouth,...
all with high profile in media...
(brief)
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★
Apple Daily News
6.22.2014
(brief)
按摩
12 pm
till 5 am early morning, many packs of hot
girls stood at front of the Gin-Di Building
(Chinese namely "金帝") or lanes aside.
Many prostitutes here are aged 25~35, 40% of
them are mainland Chinese, 40 % Taiwanese,
20% are South-Eastern Asian girls.
The transaction price (NT1300 ~ 1600, about
USD50 per time - 15 minutes, hotel room free
) is much cheaper than regular price
(NT3000~5000 per 40 min., hotel fee plus) of
this kind in Taipei.
Many of Gin-Di
girls were night-club (酒店) girls, while
getting older, they came here for being less
competitive with those new-coming club girls
aged 20+ .
Residents or
business men nearby expressed those wild
girls took far from secretive way to
show up for being chosen.
A police station is very close to Gin-Di
building.
Other major sex
business bases, e.g., Hua-Shi Street girls
ask NT600~1000 per 20 minutes, Kee-Lung
Railway area (基隆鐵支路) price NT1200 ~ 1500 per
15 min.
★The China Times (1.19.2014): Massage
shops became most popular business in Taiwan, opening more and more in recent years since Taiwan's bad economic,
Taiwanese love to relieve stress,
sooth working pressure by massage. More than half of them
are illegal business without reg. to TW government. (brief)
This site was ranked No.1
on Yahoo (Taiwan) by "Taiwanese
massage" in English and in
Chinese, at 9-23-2018
pic.: No.1
"Taiwan MASSAGE" in Chinese on
Yahoo search engine at 9-23-2018, 2-21-2018
A well-known politician Wu B.S. (吳伯雄) has a
widely-known saying: Every Taiwanese, except the
police,
knows illegal 'Casino' houses are everywhere in Taiwan.
Taiwan's prostitution is about the same. (Police announced at 5-5-2015
"completely root out sex business" (according
to The
China Times, 5-5-2015
標題"...全面掃除色情"),
eventually, only 3 cases in massage parlors got caught,
according to official report by Taiwan's Central News Agency,
5-10-2015 )
Taiwan's
media equated Taiwanese (foot) massage with National
Palace Museum (exhibiting ancient China's treasures)
―
both are
Taiwan's major attractions,
therefore, "Taiwanese massage" certainly
deserves to be
explored and studied - on the web-pages following
top-rankings records below. 
