SEX work in Victoria is legal inside a licenced brothel. A sex worker in the bedroom of The Boardroom brothel formerly located in Sydney. Source:News Corp Australia. Mr Stamenkovic has been working in the sex industry in Melbourne and Sydney for almost 20 years. These operations cost millions of dollars to run. He said illegal massage parlours work with minimal overhead costs in an unregulated and unsafe industry.
He said they pay staff below award wages and let clients do things they cannot do inside a legal brothel, including engaging in unprotected sex. They absolutely kill it. The fallout is two-fold. Second, it means clients think they can get away with more when they enter a licensed brothel.
Sex work in Victoria is divided between two very distinct sides of the industry. He said massage parlours operating as brothels are everywhere in the Melbourne CBD, just as they are in Sydney. Tricia Hughes is the CEO of Massage and Myotherapy Australia, the group representing professionally qualified practitioners across massage, remedial massage and myotherapy.
She, too, feels helpless to make any real inroads against the scourge of illegal activity taking place in faux massage clinics. This makes it difficult for police as they have no victim to report a crime. The fight against illegal brothels is continuing. Police tried in Coburg, north of Melbourne, earlier this year after suspected illegal activity at Sabai Massage.
Police alleged it was operating as a brothel and had it declared an illegal brothel on May 4, according to the Herald Sun. A few months later, the allegation was overturned and the massage parlour was allowed to continue trading. The owners denied any wrongdoing. On social media, the brothel advertises carefully, well aware it is guided by strict regulations.
