Reading was thriving for at least 15 years. Just like Washington, D.C. Both were completely shut down. All the raids were joint with the feds who assumed all of the women working those spas were slaves. Most all of those spas were K-girls who traditionally stayed at the spas for up to a month with a mamasan who cooked and cleaned for them. I guess they assumed the girls were chained to their beds at the end of the day. The authorities should have followed the girls back to Flushing on "vacation" to their shared luxury apartments, and watched them go to womens' day spas, sushi bars and K restaurants when they were not shopping in midtown Manhattan. If you were lucky, you would get invited up there to share in the fun.
In the 1990s there were a number of Caucasian spas. While some of them were raided and shut down, many closed shop because they could not compete with the emerging Asian spas. Even today, the few that exist charge excessive house and tip fees. And most of those are Russian. In all my years of mongering I never knew any spa to be black, although there was an occasional spa that maybe had a black woman for some short period.
The websites that emerged were designed to share intel on the spas and escort services. I benefited from that intel and it is why I still use them and contribute. I will always encourage a monger to report on a spa visit. I don't need a Penthouse story, but having some idea of who is in the house, conditions, busy times of day or night, changeover schedules, locations, quality of service, parking, available TS, etc is valuable intel. I can read between the lines, but I don't expect guys to write cryptograms. It is what it is. If a given jurisdiction wants to shut down a place, it is usually in response to "neighbor complaints" or political motive. Spas are well aware of the climate of local jurisdictions and state/fed initiatives. That is why places like Reading and D.C. are still largely void of spas, and why others never locate or take big risk in other jurisdictions.
All of this could be avoided if the industry was legalized and regulated. As it is in many countries. In a society where gambling, alcohol, drug use and other vices are fully accepted it is ridiculous that this industry is not. That you can go anywhere and pick up a girl and have a sexual experience with her without any issue, but give her $1 and she and you are criminals, makes no sense to me.