All are located on Santa Monica Boulevard, sometimes in places difficult to spot while driving down the street. Our city of 1.89 square miles is home to nine active massage parlors listed on, a “Yelp” for customers of illicit massage parlors who rate and describe their satisfaction with the sexual services they receive. There were “an estimated 9,000 illicit massage parlors across the country.”Ī handful of those apparently are in West Hollywood. The Times said law enforcement reported that “Behind Illicit Massage Parlors Lie a Vast Crime Network and Modern Indentured Servitude.” That’s the headline of a story published in The New York Times on March 2 that describes a “$3 billion-a-year sex industry that relies on pervasive secrecy, close-knit ownership rings and tens of thousands of mostly foreign women ensnared in a form of modern indentured servitude an industry.” The gate entrance, just left of the tree, to Momo Therapy massage at 7551 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd.