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Watertown psychologist Joel Ziff, a sex addiction therapist who has worked with hundreds of men, says illicit massage parlors are a gateway into other forms of commercial sex because they appear safer and are less pricey than other forms of prostitution. “I spent about $20,000 over those four years.”
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“I spent anywhere from $100, which was probably the typical, to sometimes $200,’’ Tom said. Tom is a former buyer who until a few years ago contributed to what has become a nearly $3 billion annual industry in the U.S., according to a recent study by Texas Christian University. Money he spent for erotic massage, he says, could have gone to his children’s music lessons, a family vacation or a charity of his choice. Tom says what at first was a distraction became an increasingly expensive obsession. “There were a few times I did it at work, at lunch. One of them is a Boston-area resident who asked for anonymity to tell his story. Company executives, lawyers, police officers, teachers and politicians have been arrested in stings over recent years. A new study by the D.C.-based Polaris Project finds that the largest percentage of buyers are white men with post-graduate degrees making more than $100,000 a year. Buyers represent every race, every color and every profession.
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Indeed, on any on any given day there are about 9,000 online searches in the Boston area on Rubmaps and other internet sites for places to buy sex, according to Demand Abolition, an anti-human trafficking organization based in Cambridge. There are now seven active sites in Framingham, nearly 200 across the state, according to data provided by the anti-trafficking group Praesidium Partners. One man described how he dropped his wife and kids off at a nearby park before heading in “to get some relief.” One reviewer wrote, “Jennifer embodied everything that I wanted, yet couldn't get out my wife.” Some called her a sweetheart, others mentioned routine details like the easy parking. Most described in graphic terms the kind of sex they could buy at the Framingham spa. Before the Greentree Health Spa was shut down last year, sex buyers crowed about the place on an erotic online review site called Rubmaps, a digital forum that lists some 7,000 illicit massage-related businesses across the United States.