The Las Vegas Sun's Oct. 10 editorial on the proposed massage ordinance regulating hours that massage businesses are allowed to operate was good, but the most important point was the last sentence: "The best way to root out rogue massage parlors is through standard police enforcement ..."
As a county-licensed massage therapist since 1990, I can tell you we are one of the most restricted, regulated industries in the county, second only to gambling. And it will soon get worse, now that Metro Police are siccing the Health District on us. None of these increasingly restrictive rules has ever eliminated prostitution, or whatever else they confuse with the practice of therapeutic massage.
And could you please, once and for all, retire the use of the phrase "massage parlor." It has a definite illicit connotation and is disrespectful to our industry. Instead, I would prefer "massage business" or "massage establishment."
Susan M. Stone, Henderson
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