Admiral Richard Byrd was not only a famous explorer but also an entrepreneur. In his many travels in the Arctic he fell in love with the landscape and it's people. He just knew one thing was missing. Sex.
So he opened a string of Eskimo massage parlors to offer a happy ending to intrepid explorers on their way to the pole so to speak.
Unfortunately due to his foot fetish the Inuit maidens would not show their baby seals and would only offer release with their feet.
He went bankrupt in the first year.
(Small Businesses That Didn't Quite Cut It by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
