Bullecer asks CH to regulate massage for women’s genitals

FORMER Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board (Caib) chairman Rene Josef Bullecer is urging the Cebu City Government to order the closure of spas offering yoni massage, a massage for the female genitals.

While lingam massage or the massage of a man’s genitals has gained popularity in Cebu, yoni massage is also catching up, Bullecer said.

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He said at least five massage parlors in the city are offering the yoni massage.

He said most of the customers of the massage parlors are tourists from the neighboring Asian countries.

Bullecer is urging the City Government to monitor these massage parlors and close them as soon as possible.

He said he has long been receiving complaints about massage parlors and relayed them to the City Government.

However, Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young earlier said lingam massage parlors ordered to stop operating in neighboring cities can do business in Cebu City instead.

But he said City Hall will issue regulations and guidelines for these spas to follow.

Aside from Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue, which are cracking down on lingam spas, the Cebu Provincial Board is scheduling a public hearing on a proposed ordinance banning lingam massage in the province.

But former city mayor and now Rep. Tomas Osmeña (Cebu City, south district) defended the stand of the vice mayor.

Osmeña said lingam massage spas have long existed in Cebu and they will always be there whether it will be banned or legalized.

“We are not stupid. We already know it’s very hard to ban it, para nako, it’s better to try to control it. It’s not that I’m in favor of it. You must accept the reality that you can’t stop it or they will go underground and then you have a very high sexually transmitted diseases infection rate,” Osmeña said.

Mayor Michael Rama refused to take a stand yet whether to ban or to regulate lingam and yoni massage.

The mayor said he doesn’t want to preempt the position of the reactivated Caib, headed by Dr. Lucille Mercado.

“Caib knows what it’s supposed to do. (The members) are mandated to perform their jobs,” Rama said.