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We are some asean people, some foreigners, and have denounced already 10 months ago what happen in natari massage, now call Heaven massage, same adress. One son of us lost his virginity there, send by mystake by his own father.
Ubiquitous massage parlor indeed. We wrote to different gov adress, and ngo, our comments. But nothing has been done yet. We prefere to see legalese brothels, and see fake massage parlor close, because the way for (our) young girls to cross the wrong line is easier with such disguised brothels