Elwood 5566

maybe it is… maybe it isn’t

Over the weekend I wrote about some seedy developments at one of the best jjimjilbang I know (Haircut’n Handjob). I have since discovered first hand, well not quite, that it has indeed been brothelised. On Saturday, one of my friends introduced me to a chap who had just had his cock vigorously frisked.  He was actually naked at the time he was telling us and I was tempted to look down to see if he was still ‘flushed.’ I’m not sure whether he had a shave, haircut and massage or just a hand-job and have yet to learn whether the ‘massage,’ or indeed the haircut and shave, are simply euphemisms for a wank and possibly more.

but not as obvious

There are two barber’s poles outside the complex entrance though they are each of a different design and not turning in opposite directions.  After more investigation and asking, it does seem that the 1 pole haircut, 2 pole hand-job ‘rule,’ is ambiguous.

I also noticed, both arriving and leaving the mogyoktang (bathhouse) floor, that the barber’s shop was a little like the travel agents one used to see around Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin side; they look like what they are advertised as, but no one is at home and there are no customers. I take it the shufflings take place in one of the back rooms and by the lack of girls lazing on the barber’s sofa; it must have been rush hour. Perhaps if you enter at the front, and dressed in street clothes, you get a haircut etc, but if you enter from the changing room area, via a little passage, you can get wanked.

As for the women? On my last few visits, I haven’t seen any sitting in the hairdressers, and there were five or six of them; business must be good. What did they look like? Umm… definitely Korean, black hair, petit…but I doubt that’s much help! They looked okay, perhaps in their late twenties but to be honest, as it was lunchtime, I was more interested in the contents of the nearby Paris baguette.

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