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While spas and massages are often seen as wellness havens, hidden dangers like sexual abuse, human trafficking, and labor exploitation threaten both clients and workers.
Sexual Abuse
Power imbalances create conditions for sexual misconduct. Clients are often in private rooms, unclothed or relaxed, relying on trust that can be violated. Hundreds of abuse complaints have been filed against major massage chains, and therapists themselves experience harassment from clients or management.
Human Trafficking & Exploitation
Illegal massage businesses lure vulnerable workers, often migrant women, with false job promises, coercing them into sexual or labor exploitation through debt bondage, document confiscation, and threats.
Unethical Labor Practices
Even legitimate spas may exploit workers through low pay, long hours, and unsafe conditions, particularly affecting migrant women.
Physical and Medical Risks
Untrained practitioners can cause nerve, artery, or bone injuries, thrombosis, stroke, or even death. Poor hygiene may also spread infections.
Med-Spas & Misleading Marketing
Untrained staff performing procedures like Botox, overhyped “before-and-after” images, and misleading advertisements can endanger clients and mislead consumers.
