do not underestimate the sleaze of the Playboy bunny

Well, where do I start on this place?

You can see obviously the sign says 'Bunnys Club' and the playboy bunnies and the fact that this looks NOTHING like an actual club. It's in the middle of a terrace of buildings on a main road out of Birmingham, the windows upstairs are painted/boarded over and the front of the building is all tiled apart from the front door.

Hmmm what kind of 'club' could this be? If it could even be considered a club I'd guess table/pole/lap...but there's a reason why I don't think this is a club.

Until recently this establishment was 'Cuddles' a 'massage parlor'. You or may not have seen in the news but during the summer this year this place was raided and 19 illegally immigrated women from various countries were believed to have been trafficked. It transpired that this place was not a massage parlor at all - and these women were basically being held against their will:

From The Scotsman:
"The women, from seven different countries, had had their passports taken from them by the owners of Cuddles, in Bearwood, Birmingham, which was operating as a brothel...A sawn-off shotgun and three extendable batons were found on the premises, which has an electric fence at the rear...Police were looking into allegations that they were brought to this country after being promised jobs as nannies and waitresses, and said that immigration officers had been informed...Cuddles massage parlour was targeted as part of intelligence gathered through Operation Strikeout, which targets robberies and violent crime...There are more than 12 rooms in the building. The walls were lined with metallic sheeting from the ceiling to the floor and there were mattresses in the rooms."

Please read the rest of the post - those were just some important points that I felt the need to highlight.

See also the BBC News story
and the Birmingham Mail

The police raided Cuddles after a TWO MONTH surveillance operation - I have known that the place wasn't really a massage parlor for about as long as i've known it existed, i.e. about seven years.

This is an old building and it had 'more than 12 rooms' which means lots of walls - removing said walls would, in my opinion, make the place structurally unsound. So by any chance is this 'club' in fact a 'massage parlor' by another name? A massage parlor with metal walls and mattress floors?

And children and teenagers see this place on the bus on the way into town and then see t-shirts and stationary, and tops and notebooks are okay right? So Bunnys Club is okay?

Grrr...