SouthFlorida.com | City Link Magazine

So long as we're talking about legitimate businesses and not those happy-ending massage parlors that advertise in the back pages of certain weekly magazines, the most intimate services a salon or spa can legally offer are bikini waxes and massages. But even at the most up-and-up establishments, customers sometimes confuse themselves with actors in a late-night Cinemax movie as soon as their bottoms come off. Following are two on-the-job experiences from local aestheticians who asked to remain anonymous.

Wax on, get off

"Bikini-waxing has never been my favorite thing to do as a waxer, but the salon I work at in Palm Beach offers it. If a customer requests it, we have to do it. I prefer waxing legs and brows. One day, I had a woman come in for a bikini wax and ask me to make the wax extra hot. I really didn't feel comfortable doing that because she could burn her skin. But she kept insisting, so I made it hotter. I spread the wax along her bikini line, and she started wiggling all over the table. As I yanked the strips of hair away, she kept asking me to pull harder, like she was getting off on it. I was completely freaked out by this point and just trying to get it over with, so I worked as fast as I could. When she asked me to leave the room, I was actually relieved. She came out 15 minutes later with this huge grin on her face, so I guess she finished herself off in there."

No happy ending here

"I work at a very upscale spa in Miami Beach, where massages cost $100 and up for an hour. It's happened to me a couple of times now where I've been massaging guys and they start to pitch a tent when I have them roll over onto their back. I'm [a heterosexual man] and in a relationship, so I wasn't interested either time when these guys asked if I could finish them off. One of the guys offered me an extra $50 bucks to rub his dick. He kept saying, 'I'm not gay; I just need you to help me out because my wife never touches it.' But I just refused to do it. Then, I left the room so he could put his clothes back on. I knocked [on the door], and he said to go ahead and open the door. And he was standing there completely naked. I just wanted to run away."