Why are you doing this?

I have been asked why I made Happy Endings?, and my motives have been questioned.
I get asked all the time about why I made the film. I figured I would post the question as asked to me by one of the women from the spa.

Happy Endings? is intriguing exploration of the Asian massage parlor industry in Providence, RI, where a 25 year-old loophole has made the exchange of sex for money legal — as long as it happens behind closed doors.

As the documentary follows a recent Korean immigrant, Heather, working to operate her spa, the citys mayor fights to change the law that allows her business a legal existence.

The film includes interviews with Korean women who work in spas, clients who frequent the spas, politicians from 1980 and today, police, local news footage, radio call-in shows and voiced reviews from internet escort review boards.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• asian massage parlor
• Happy Endings?
• happy endings
• human trafficking
• prostitution
• Rhode Island
• Providence
• legal prostitution
• RI prostitution law