RubMaps

RubMaps.ch is a directory of information and reviews on massage parlors throughout the United States. It exists primarily for the purpose of listing and describing parlors that will offer sexual services to patrons. The site has survived remarkably untouched for several years, and despite the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) enacted in 2018 that shut down sexual service directories on Backpage and Craigslist, has remained operational and useful.

A Backpage and Craigslist Alternative

Once you click through the legal disclaimer, you’ll see a section of the latest massage parlor reviews in your area. This section will show all the basic information relevant to that encounter: the location, the date, the name of the provider the base price paid, the distance from your current location, and, if you’re a premium member, a rating for the encounter. In PornSites.com’s opinion, the Massage Parlors Near You tab is much more useful. This shows the same basic information about the site, but describes the race of the providers instead of the name of one specific provider, and the averaged rating of all reviews rather than of one review in particular. Clicking on any of the named locations will bring you to a page dedicated to describing that massage parlor. You’ll have access to an address, contact information, and hours, as well as a listing of the various rates for each amount of massage time offered. They even describe what types of cards are accepted, if any, as well as whether or not there is an ATM on site, and what additional features (like saunas, Jacuzzi’s, and table showers) are offered. Immediately below this infobox is a section for reviews of massages provided at the location. If you’re not a premium member, you’ll only get a bit of basic information—the name of the provider and the date. Paid members will, on top of this, have access to a rating of the encounter as well as a detailed listing and rating of every aspect of the experience, including a long narrative description of the visit. Though this section is incredibly useful for determining the quality of a massage parlor, it isn’t absolutely necessary for determining whether or not the location offers extra services. In PornSites.com’s opinion, any parlor that has more than a few reviews is incredibly likely to offer more than just a massage, because the users of RubMaps wouldn’t keep going if they didn’t. So while the information offered to free members is incredibly limited, this doesn’t ruin the utility of the site by any means. Another useful section of the site is the titular map—just below the tabbed sections on the main page, you can find a map of nearby parlors. There is also an incredibly powerful advanced search that lets you not only narrow things down by each parlor, but, if you’re a premium member, by the specific aspects and acts performed by each individual masseuse. Though not at all necessary if you’re in the mood for any standard rub and tug, this section can be incredibly useful if you desire something a lot more specific. RubMaps also has several sections only tangentially related to their main attraction. The site hosts a forum that, while not incredibly active, may be useful to learn a bit more about massage parlors in general or discovering those in your area. If you’re new to the hobby you’ll definitely want to check out the slang section, since the language used in reviews is often so dense, coded, and impenetrable that newbies might find it incomprehensible without referring to this dictionary. The blog hosted by RubMaps, though no longer actively updated, is also a surprisingly useful source of information for hobbyists young and old. Not only will you find stories and general interest pieces relating to massages, but there are also plenty of long, step-by-step guides to all aspects of massage parlors, from your very first visit, to avoiding legal (and familial) attention, all the way up to discreetly requesting certain acts from massage providers. Ignore the Live Sex Cams Tab, though—this is little more than a hidden advertisement for a third-party cam site. Though RubMaps is happily free of pop-ups and banner ads, this lone exception will redirect you away from the site, so unless you’d rather check out some live cam porn instead of visiting a massage parlor, you can steer clear.

A Question of Legality

It is clear that soliciting the services that are discussed on RubMaps is illegal. What is much less obvious is whether or not the sites operations or your activites as the end user browsing the site are illegal. RubMaps makes many efforts to ensure that it stays on the right side both morally and legally. From the moment you enter the site, you will be greeted with a long legal disclaimer about how all of the site’s content is user generated, none of it is reviewed by staff, and that they are completely unaware of whether or not any of the content is factual. They then go on to describe the content as “fantasy as it meets reality,” and claim that the site is to be used for entertainment purposes. While this legal fiction likely would not hold up to scrutiny, it is an interesting claim, particularly when you consider that it is followed up by contact information for the very real United States National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, and two further resources relating to sexual exploitation. RubMaps even links to their own guide for law enforcement, which instructs officials into to what extent RubMaps will assist with legal investigations. The end users of the site will be happy to know that RubMaps only provides information where absolutely legally necessary. They will not respond to private party litigants or other investigators unless legally required to do so, and unless such legal requirement is backed up by a properly served subpoena, writ, or court order. While you should always exercise caution when using semi-legal websites such as RubMaps by using VPNs and common sense (avoiding giving up any personally identifying information whenever possible), you can rest easy knowing that RubMaps will protect your right to privacy as much as possible.

Premium Access

Certain features of RubMaps are not granted to free users. While the site remains useful on a free membership, any more discerning readers might want to consider paying to get access to the entirety of the information offered by RubMaps. Not only will you be able to see the star ratings on parlors and on individual reviews, as well as the more detailed review information, but you’ll also get access to comments on each review—which can be surprisingly useful when it comes to figuring out whether one person’s experiences are the standard that can be expected or a one-off anomaly, for better or for worse. There are two pricing options for RubMaps—you can pay for a month-to-month membership that costs just under twenty dollars a month, or you can save a little bit by prepaying for an entire year for one hundred and fifty dollars. The savings offered here are substantial, but not so massive that they make the decision obvious. If you’re curious about one or two nearby massage parlors and just want to confirm whether or not they’re offering happy endings, a month or so of the short-term membership might be your best bet, but if you’re planning on checking out each and every late-night parlor until you’ve exhausted your city’s supply of them, an investment into a full year might be more prudent.

The Best In The Game

If you’re in the market for a massage that ends up a little differently from a standard massage, RubMaps is as good as it gets. Even with a free membership, you should be able to quickly and easily locate a parlor that offers such services close to you. Although certain details are locked behind a premium paywall, any parlor listed here with more than a few recent reviews likely offers at least some level of happy ending service. That being said, if you’re the type that needs to know whether those extras are limited to clothed handjobs or go all the way to full service, the premium membership is a reasonably affordable way to find out. When you consider the fact that really no other site offers a similar database of knowledge, the value of RubMaps increases even further. Your only other alternative is essentially to wander into massage parlors at random and test the water—and that would be inferior to a site far worse than RubMaps.