Topic: Community and Society. Are massage parlours providing unauthorised services putting brothels out of business? Supplied: Flickr. But Charley now fears her new career is under threat, and it is not the rise of dating apps like Tinder that has her worried. She said the surge in the illegal massage parlour industry was causing a massive decline in brothel attendance and her income had halved as a result. I still needed to maintain an income, which led me into sex work.
Her two children, aged 24 and 22, were not thrilled when Charley announced her new career but she said they had come to accept it. It wasn't the rise of Tinder or dating apps, as suggested by Sunshine Coast brothel Lush, that was threatening her new career.
Charley does four shifts a week at a Brisbane brothel and then does private work, where she generally goes to clients' homes. She would prefer to only work in a brothel but needed the private work to supplement her income. Absolutely, because it is safer," she said. Charley says sex workers are under threat from illegal massage parlours. In the brothel I charge the same, but the difference is at the brothel I get 55 per cent. Despite this, she wanted the Government to do more to tackle the illegal massage parlour industry.
Charley said the evidence of the effect they were having was plain to see when you looked at what happened after a illegal massage parlour was shut down in Townsville. Charley is now worried her new career won't be viable for much longer. I like that we are health-tested every three months and our only services are safe services. Their husbands know what they do. It would be a shame for the industry to die for a whole lot of illegal stuff going on.
Charley said she was 51 now and her perception of the industry had changed. Sometimes it's not even sex, I've had people come in for a cup of coffee. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
