Has Dublin been completely over run with on street brothels?

For shame, my dudes (referring to Dublin city council).

Between the complete lack of policing (or their resolute adherence to turning a blind eye to the rampant trash/chav infestation), the moving dry-house that is the Luas, and now I can't even get my traps and deltoids rubbed down without being told, "minimum price is 80 euro, happy ending included, compulsorily".

Check them out on google maps, some places are labelled "erotic massage parlor"; I assure you, there's nothing "erotic" about them.

They vary between "sleaze rub and tug" joints (as far as I can tell, many of them have abandoned the "rub" completely, and focus almost exclusively on the "tug"), or straight up brothels - no shame, not even an attempt at concealment.

Now I know what you're thinking, and let me say that, Hell No.

First off, I don't need to pay for it.

Secondly, it's quite simply a bummer seeing Dublin City go from bad to worse, it seems like every time I go for a wander around the city center we're one step closer to Robert DeNiro's Taxi Driver, New York style urban ethos.

It's depressing.

I know there was uproar from the locals on Dorset St a few years in the past and a couple premises were condemned, but then about 4 more popped up in other locations around the city.

Basically what I'm saying is, the city council seem to have thrown in the towel completely in the fight against Dublin city becoming the sleaze central of western Europe.

Cliff notes:

• Legit massage parlors where athletic advocates such as myself can get a professional treatment = good.
• Open street brothels and sleaze joints masquerading as "massage parlors" = bad, mmmkay.

CrookedJack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058245043/has-dublin-been-completely-over-run-with-on-street-brothels

Yes, your post is in no way hysterical rubbish.

I work in the city and unfortunately the brothels have even taken over the office. Now we all have to give aul fellas hand jobs during the morning meetings.

Still, it's a living.

timmyntc

Hello OP, I work for the uh.. City Council

Where would a respectable employee of the state such as myself find one of these on-street brothels? For legal enforcement reasons of course

o1s1n

As someone who lives and works in Dublin city, I don't see any of these brothels on a daily basis at all.

You might need to stop hanging around dodgy areas, OP.

ohnonotgmail

You seem tense and uptight OP. a handjob might relax you.

Viscount Aggro

Write to the city council manager and complain.

Ger Gough

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035435#Comment_119035435

There's a city in Thailand called "Pattaya".

It was south-east Asia's R&R location during conflicts in that region so comtemporarily operates in much the same fashion.

i.e. sleaze central.

A significant chain of the "massage parlors" around Dublin are labelled with the same name (as they're all under the one ownership).

So Pattaya, and google is your partner in crime.

The irony is that, at a young age I was visiting Pattaya for a different reason, and that's where, as a country Irish boy, I discovered the benefits of legitimate massage for the first time.

enricoh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035420#Comment_119035420

There's taking one for the team but this is another level stuff- fair play!

oceanman

brothels have been around since humans first walked the earth, they are here to stay and if you think of it they just provide a service like any other business.

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035453#Comment_119035453

Same. Now, I will admit to being of the female persuasion and someone who goes to the physio rather than a masseuse if my running injury flares up, but I do work in the city centre and have yet to trip over one of these many dens of iniquity that seem to be everywhere.

How much for a gob job? Just wondering h how much to charge.

seems easy enough to find a physio sports massage without optional/mandatory extras tbh

As far as I know, the others are owned and operated by Chinese, Brazilian and Cypriot crime organizations.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035561#Comment_119035561

The last "sports physio" I went to (who had a degree in physio framed in the reception area) got on the phone to some potential customer half way through our appointment, openly discussing her offer to shave his testicles.

Needless to say, I didn't go back.

FintanMcluskey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058245043/has-dublin-been-completely-over-run-with-on-street-brothels

First off, I don't need to pay for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACKWlqPUPI

Quitelife

To be fair there does seem to be a huge amount of thai massage premises in Dublin city.

A couple of fast food joints,a Spar etc, a bookies and a thai massage spot seem to be standard on most streets these days .

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035606#Comment_119035606

in fairness thats a great night out

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035583#Comment_119035583

anybody else read this and think of the famous line used in Sunday World articles of old when they investigated brothels and massage parlous? "Needless to say I made my excuses and left".

I have to ask, whats the OP's real agenda here. Dublin City Centre has been over run with:

-Visible open air drug dealing

-Tents belonging to homeless people seem to be everywhere now

-Petty crime

-Seagulls

-Litter

-Finally, a large cohort of people who don't give a sh1te about anything

Ive made this point before, but the "Save Dublin" brigade or whatever they are called forced Ann Summers off O'Connell street because they thought it brought down the tone of the street, when actually, it's shop front was the classiest one on the street, amid a back drop of McDonalds, Burger King and Mr Quirky's One Armed Bandit Emporium.

So, I have to ask, how or why did the OP focus on massage parlours and manage to ignore the things in the above list?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035598#Comment_119035598

What is that flick?

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035625#Comment_119035625

Is that not just whataboutary?

Perhaps we need a thread that focus on each topic?

Not really sure what you can do about Seagull in a costal city.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035666#Comment_119035666

First you say whataboutery, and then only select seagulls from my list. However, go to a clean city on the coast and the seagull population drops dramatically.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035625#Comment_119035625

Decent observation.

Inadvertently you've bolstered my argument as you're condemning trash culture and promoting class.

I am a long time connoisseur of massage and I'm merely reflecting your sentiments.

i.e. Dublin is promoting trash and oppressing class.

And I'm wondering is that a function of Irish culture, merely exemplified in Dublin.

Atlantic Dawn

Not seen them, worst I've seen human exploitation wise is gangmasters running begging rings from Moore Street, daily occurance in the open.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035765#Comment_119035765

how exactly is dublin promoting these brothels?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035767#Comment_119035767

You have not seen them because the places the OP is talking about are subdued and discreet places. I've seen them, I know the places he is talking about, but to be honest, you will get them in most capital cities. Some are ran by the mob, some are independent. As I said earlier, of all the problems Dublin has, this should be far down the list.

Ceramic

Dublin was always fairly rough around the edges though. I mean, I remember being at the Jervis Luas stop and there was a guy chasing someone around with a crowbar in the middle of the afternoon. I've also had to step around people passed out on the street around there. Obviously I called the Gardai about it, and didn't just leave them there.

I worked all over Dublin since 1979, and I can tell ye that there were basements, parlours, brothels, “massage” parlours all over the small streets and sone of the tacky ends of the big streets , with notices in upstairs windows. Example being Pearse St, where I passed such a place every day walking to work. Gardiner St, Mountjoy Square, all sorts of places, from the 1980s onwards.

However my first introduction to displays of colourful dildos in shop windows was in likes of Copenhagen, Cologne etc in early 1980s, and these were not quite the back streets. Contraception wasn’t even legal in Ireland back in my young days.

Forever as I’ve known it since my working life, O’Connell St has been the tackiest Main Street of any city I have visited, apart from Younge Street in Toronto, which, in my memory, has something of the same vibe and is close to where “business” was done.

corner of hells

Oh "Take me up to Monto, Monto, Monto

Take her up to Monto, lan-ge- roo,

To you!".

JimmyVik

I had to go into the citry center recently for the first time in ages.

I didnt see any brothels but i saw enough to make me want to avoid it for ever more. Please god dont let my company bring back wfo.

I used to live in the city center and have never seen it in such a sh!te hole and anti-social state that it is now. Cant believe whats happened to it.

But I didnt see any nrothels it has to be said :)

Tech_Head

Looks like the first Jack Reacher

joseywhales

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035765#Comment_119035765

Yes exemplified in the least Irish city in the republic.

I don't know why you have described self respect as class. We don't need such obnoxious words to describe simple human respect for ourselves and for others.

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058245043/has-dublin-been-completely-over-run-with-on-street-brothels

You do realise that the Travis Bickle character is not a hero in the movie, he's a disturbed, paranoid, judgemental and self righteous individual and gets increasingly dangerous as the film goes on. The fact that he ultimately did an honourable act by rescuing the girl doesn't mean he was the good guy all along

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035897#Comment_119035897

Depends on where you are on Yonge Street, certainly as you pass Dundas and up to Wellesley, it starts to get tacky, but it is their longest street AFAIK the longest street in the world, so bound to have good and bad parts. Bloor and Yonge is their Grafton Street.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035625#Comment_119035625

Between the above and other threads, talking sh1te

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035640#Comment_119035640

Jack Reacher

Ceramic

Have none of yiz ever read Ulysses ?!

Dublin was always a bit rough!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119036996#Comment_119036996

Take me up to Monto, Monto, Monto ....

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119036032#Comment_119036032

That’s right, it is indeed longest city street in the world. I was staying very close it to in an area known for its trade, so to speak, within walking distance also of big shopping centres, museums, theatres. Long time back, though.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119036366#Comment_119036366

It can’t be denied though that our Main Street is distinctly tacky and downbeat, but has been for many decades, all my adult life. It was brought even more into focus after a trip to a European capital last week where I did not see even one piece of litter in the street. Not one. People don’t throw much in the first place, and there are teams of busy council workers set to task that any stray pieces of paper, bags etc are removed.

Above is a set of recycling bins, same set-up to be found every few streets in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

foxsake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058245043/has-dublin-been-completely-over-run-with-on-street-brothels

there is no way you'd mistake one massage for another - you're just a whinge.

stop crying and let people want their fun.

Should all be legal and have "an area" in dublin though for all naughty fun.

sprucemoose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058245043/has-dublin-been-completely-over-run-with-on-street-brothels

'First off, I don't need to pay for it.' - well if youre only going to massage places that you dont actually pay for, then theyre always going to be a bit dodgy so

오이신

Where are these brothels in Dublin just so I know to stay away from ….. specific address needed also and phone number just so I can block it from my phone as a precaution

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119037283#Comment_119037283

You’re gonna pay for something in there. Rents don’t pay for themselves.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119037408#Comment_119037408

Take a little wander on Streetview . Actually I must do that now. Haven’t been near Dublin City centre in a year apart from driving through it and then I’m focussing on the people crossing all the time in front of me, not on the parlours. 😂

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119035420#Comment_119035420

Ya gotta earn that promotion somehow

One thing a lot of guys (mostly guys, not girls) don’t take heed of is that a lot of sex workers have emerged in an environment of sexual abuse.

What woman would actually choose a career above any other of massaging the erotic zones of none-too-attractive men (overweight, personality deficit etc) who find they must pay to get their pleasures.

A girl who was in my class at (private secondary) school became a sex worker. She had suffered appalling repeated rape by her father, and as is the phenomenon of Stockholm Syndrome, came to normalise the provision of sexual services, that being what she was most used to from a very early age.

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119036017#Comment_119036017

Someone else who confused Bickle as a hero (Bickle himself tried to kill himself at the end of the film, he doesn't think he's a hero...) ended up growing soft on Jodie Foster and took cues from Bickle. He attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan. His name was John Hinckley Junior. Scorsese almost quit the film industry as a result.

Ceramic

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Ceramic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119037193#Comment_119037193

They're used in every city with density of apartments right across the continent pretty much. The bin's located underground. There are a couple of cities in Spain and in Scandinavia that go a step further and use pneumatic collection systems, where the bins are just a hatch that you drop a bag into and they're moved by air through a network of pipes to a collection depot in the neighbourhood that's away from buildings / tight spaces.

The well intentioned, but totally backfiring pay-by-weight / pay-by-volume system requires individual bins and is a total mess, causing illegal dumping. 

In urban areas you've so many bin days it's infuriating with multiple operators collecting on different days and in rural areas, you've often got an unregulated monopoly due to low density and are utterly gouged on price.

As a system it's a mess! They need to contract out each area to an operator in a competitive tender and go back to funding it from local taxation or an annual fee.