“Start on your well-being journey stay the fuck away from Massage Envy” is some common sense well-being wisdom posited by the national spa franchise Massage Envy. In an exhaustive report which reflects what amounts to the premiere strip mall employer of sex offenders, Buzzfeed News’s Katie Baker reveals that over 180 people have filed sexual assault lawsuits, police reports, and state board complaints against the company and its employees.
The piece leads with just one of an abundance of stories (all women’s) of groping, licking, genital touching and penetration:
On May 2, 2015, Susan Ingram lay facedown in the dark at her local Massage Envy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, one of the franchise’s nearly 1,200 spas nationwide. It was her seventh session with James Deiter, a massage therapist whom the spa had enthusiastically recommended. By now, Ingram trusted Deiter, and she closed her eyes and relaxed as he worked her muscles. Then, without warning, Deiter ground his erect penis against Ingram’s body. He groped her breasts. He put his fingers in and out of her vagina.
That “masseuse” eventually pled guilty to nine counts of sexual molestation; when asked why the owner didn’t do anything about numerous complains were made to the spa itself, she said it was the spa’s “official policy” not to do anything until customers came in to report assault in person.
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