Fat Chicks Stampede for Nevada! Male prostitution is Nevada's newest legal profession
Delmore Suetweig
jan06,0,7495471.story?track=rss
After months of debate in the state's surprisingly squeamish brothel
community, Nye County officials agree to let Shady Lady Ranch near Death
Valley hire men.
Reporting from Tonopah, Nev. - Brothel owner Bobbi Davis got the
go-ahead Tuesday to hire what her website cheekily calls "a few good
men."
Her Shady Lady Ranch is searching for "service-oriented" guys willing to
become Nevada's first legal male sex workers.
"I personally feel, as do the many other women who have made contact
with me since I started this, that this is a service whose time has
come," Davis said in a letter to Nye County officials.
A county board's vote Tuesday affirming that Davis could offer "shady
men" to her clientele followed months of rancorous debate among the
state's legal brothel community. The industry, in its own peculiar way,
is somewhat conservative: Considered an anachronism of bawdy mining
camps by some Nevada newcomers, it often balks at change.
Of course, new ideas in a business unique to Nevada (in its legal form)
are a touch different. Adding porn stars to brothel lineups rankled some
owners. Overturning a ban on brothel advertising, a battle Davis and the
American Civil Liberties Union helped lead, also stirred up debate.
Though neither change shuttered the state's 25 or so bordellos -- some
would argue the publicity helped -- many owners still operate in an
off-the-grid manner, wary of being shut down.
George Flint, longtime lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Assn., has said
that allowing male prostitutes could be the industry's Pearl Harbor. He
has hinted that brothels possibly offering gay sex -- a choice each
prostitute, as an independent contractor, would be free to make -- might
sour some legislators on the entire brothel system.
Nevada lawmakers are notoriously skittish when discussing the birds and
bees. The Legislature, even when severely cash-strapped, has repeatedly
declined to tax the brothels (which are banned in Reno and Las Vegas)
for fear of, well, legitimizing the business.
"This is the first time in the history of the world . . . that men have
been licensed to sell sex," Flint said Tuesday, his voice rising. "It's
never been done!"
Davis and her husband, Jim, merely hope to boost business. Their small
outpost near Death Valley, about 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas,
offers as many as five women, relies heavily on travelers and has gotten
some requests for gigolos.
After announcing her plans this summer, Davis and attorney Allen
Lichtenstein succeeded where the better-known Hollywood Madam, Heidi
Fleiss, had failed. In 2005, Fleiss announced that she was moving to
Pahrump, in southern Nye County, in hopes of creating a "stud farm." She
opened a Laundromat instead.
Davis figures that, even if it's a flop, adding men to her roster is
worth trying. She has been inundated with more than 100 applications,
she said, though she held off on hiring until she'd cleared all
bureaucratic hurdles.
The final one: Tuesday's meeting of the Nye County Licensing and Liquor
Board, which is made up of five county commissioners and Sheriff Tony
DeMeo, who had been openly skeptical of Davis' plan.
Opponents who promised to take buses to Tonopah, however, failed to show
up. Not one constituent spoke about the proposal. But DeMeo, Flint and
Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch, raised concerns about
monitoring the spread of infectious diseases, though state health
regulators had already cleared the way for male sex workers.
"You guys can't scare me," said Commissioner Lorinda Wichman before
voting in Davis' favor. "I'm going to try this."
Though the vote was relatively nonconfrontational, the discussion
beforehand showed how much controversy remains. For much of Davis'
speech, officials rested their chins in their hands, lowered their eyes
or slumped in their chairs. When the sheriff noted that Davis' statement
varied from her letter to commissioners, she read aloud one section with
force.
"It seems the biggest hoopla is a great fear in some people's minds that
some kind of homosexual activity might go on," she said. "Why panic I
don't understand . . . it's not my intent to encourage or promote or to
turn my business into a 'gay property.' "
DeMeo wondered whether sex workers could check female customers for
signs of disease as easily as men. Davis said yes.
"If you want me to go into the inspection routine, I will," she said.
"Please don't!" said a commissioner, to laughter.
Lady Veteran
<delm...@suetfactory.de> wrote:
>http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-male-prostitutes6-2010
>jan06,0,7495471.story?track=rss
>
>After months of debate in the state's surprisingly squeamish brothel
>community, Nye County officials agree to let Shady Lady Ranch near Death
>Valley hire men.
>
You aren't even in the running so let it be.
LV
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Lady Veteran <arm...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:50:03 +0000 (UTC), Delmore Suetweig
> <delm...@suetfactory.de> wrote:
>
> >http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-male-prostitutes6-2010
> >jan06,0,7495471.story?track=rss
> >
> >After months of debate in the state's surprisingly squeamish brothel
> >community, Nye County officials agree to let Shady Lady Ranch near Death
> >Valley hire men.
> >
> You aren't even in the running so let it be.
>
> LV
They're not hiring blacks so you're out of luck anyway.
Lady Veteran
wrote:
Why. did you apply and get rejected? Idiot models are found in lots of
colors and cultures.
Dr. Chung
news:gocdk55fgcvr88fpn...@4ax.com:
> On 7 Jan 2010 20:30:39 -0000, "Canadian Bacon" <cle...@canadian.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>In article <ligak5pp9d9mvcods...@4ax.com>
>>Lady Veteran <arm...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:50:03 +0000 (UTC), Delmore Suetweig
>>> <delm...@suetfactory.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> >http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-male-prostitutes6
>>> >-2010 jan06,0,7495471.story?track=rss
>>> >After months of debate in the state's surprisingly squeamish
>>> >brothel community, Nye County officials agree to let Shady Lady
>>> >Ranch near Death Valley hire men.
>>> >
>>> You aren't even in the running so let it be.
>>>
>>> LV
>>
>>They're not hiring blacks so you're out of luck anyway.
>>
> mail...@reece.net.au
>
> Why. did you apply and get rejected? Idiot models are found in lots of
> colors and cultures.
Indeed, look at you.
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