Typical newspaper boxes commonly filled with free flyers solely advertising 'escorts' on Las Vegas Blvd, although prostitution itself is illegal in Las Vegas and Clark county.

Nevada is one of only two U.S. states that allow some legal prostitution; in most of its counties, brothels are legalized and heavily regulated. In Rhode Island, the act of sex for money is not illegal, but street solicitation and operation of a brothel are. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixelsFull resolution (1544 × 1024 pixel, file size: 260 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) My photo taken Dec 2005 of boxes/flyers solely advertising for prostitution/escorts on Las Vegas Blvd. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixelsFull resolution (1544 × 1024 pixel, file size: 260 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) My photo taken Dec 2005 of boxes/flyers solely advertising for prostitution/escorts on Las Vegas Blvd. ... Official language(s) English Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Area  Ranked 7th  - Total 110,567 sq mi (286,367 km²)  - Width 322 miles (519 km)  - Length 490 miles (788 km)  - % water 0. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the... Whore redirects here. ... Nevada has 16 counties and one independent city. ... A brothel, also known as a bordello or whorehouse, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sex with the clients. ... “RI” redirects here. ...

Legal situation

Under Nevada state law, any county with a population of less than 400,000 is allowed to license brothels if it so chooses (NRS 244.345). As of January 1978,^[1] Clark County (which contains Las Vegas) is the only county in Nevada with a population of over 400,000, but Washoe County may soon reach that point as well.^[2] Incorporated towns and cities in counties that allow prostitution may regulate the trade further or prohibit it altogether. 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. ... Vegas redirects here. ... Washoe County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ...

As of July 2004, brothels are illegal under county or municipal law in Carson City (which encompasses the entire county), Washoe County (which contains Reno), Clark County (which contains Las Vegas), Douglas County, and Lincoln County. The other 11 counties permit licensed brothels in certain specified areas or cities. Motto: Proud of its Past. ... Washoe County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. ... Douglas County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. ... Lincoln County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ...

The precise licensing requirements vary from county to county. License fees for brothels range from an annual $100,000 in Storey County to an annual $200 in Lander County. Licensed prostitutes must be at least 21 years old, except in Storey County and Lyon County, where the legal age is 18. Storey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. ... Lander County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ... Storey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. ... Lyon County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ...

State law requires that registered brothel prostitutes be checked weekly for several sexually transmitted diseases and monthly for HIV; furthermore, condoms are mandatory for all oral sex and sexual intercourse. Brothel owners may be held liable if customers become infected with HIV after a prostitute has tested positive for the virus (NRS 041.1397). A sexually transmitted disease (STD) is an illness caused by an infectious pathogen that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex. ... Species Human immunodeficiency virus 1 Human immunodeficiency virus 2 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS, a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections). ... A condom is a device, usually made of latex, or more recently polyurethane, that is used during sexual intercourse. ... Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ... It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ... Species Human immunodeficiency virus 1 Human immunodeficiency virus 2 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS, a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections). ...

Nevada has laws against engaging in prostitution outside of licensed brothels, against encouraging others to become prostitutes, and against living off the proceeds of a prostitute. For many years Brothels have been restricted from advertising their services in counties where brothel prostitution is illegal, however the state law restricting such activity has recently been overturned.[1] Pimping v. ...

Legal brothels

About 30 legal brothels existed in the state in January 2004, employing about 300 female prostitutes at any given time. All but the smallest ones operate as follows: as the customer is buzzed in and sits down in the parlor, the available women appear in a line-up and introduce themselves. If the customer chooses a woman, the price negotiations take place in the woman's room, which are often overheard by management. The house normally gets half of the negotiated amount. If the customer arrives by cab, the driver will receive some 20% of whatever the customer spends; this is subtracted from the woman's earnings. Typical prices start at US$100 and average about $300 for half an hour of intercourse and oral sex. The prostitutes almost never kiss on the mouth. Brothels do not have preset prices, the only known exception being Shady Lady brothel on Route 95, approximately 30 miles north of Beatty. Generally, the closer a brothel is to Las Vegas, the higher the prices. Thus Sheri's Ranch and Chicken Ranch, both located in Pahrump, are on the whole more expensive than other brothels. Sheri's Ranch is the larger of the two, and may have upwards of 20 prostitutes on its premises at any given time. It is also the more expensive of the two, and generally the most expensive legal brothel in Nevada. ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ... Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ... This is a trivia section. ... Sheris Ranch is a legal brothel, resort and spa in Pahrump, Nevada. ... The Chicken Ranch is a legal, licensed brothel located about 60 miles west of Las Vegas near the town of Pahrump, in Nye County, at 10511 Homestead Road (location: , ). The 17 bed brothel sits on 40 acres of land. ...

Because by law brothels are not allowed to advertise in Clark County, some visitors to Las Vegas are not aware of their existence. They are also not allowed to advertise for employees in Clark County.

Brothel prostitutes work as independent contractors and thus do not receive any unemployment, retirement or health benefits. They are responsible for paying their own taxes, which many neglect, since it is mainly a cash business. The women typically work for a period of several weeks, during which time they live in the brothel and hardly ever leave it. They then take some time off. It has been argued that the tight control that brothels exert over the working conditions precludes the women from legally being classified as independent contractors. An independent contractor is a person or business which provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract. ...

Since 1986, when mandatory testing began, not a single brothel prostitute has ever tested positive for HIV.^[3] The mandatory condom law was passed in 1988. A study conducted in 1995 in two brothels found that condom use in the brothels is consistent and sexually transmitted diseases are accordingly absent. The study also found that few of the prostitutes use condoms in their private lives.

Illegal prostitution

Prostitution outside licensed brothels is a misdemeanor in Nevada. The big casino towns of Reno and Las Vegas have worked to expand their tourism base by attracting families to the hotels and casinos. Accordingly, the state legislature has made prostitution illegal in both Clark and Washoe Counties and law enforcement agencies have tried to eliminate the once rampant street prostitution. Nevertheless, prostitutes continue to work in casinos, where they wait in bars and attempt to make contact with males. A misdemeanor, or misdemeanour, in many common law legal systems, is a lesser criminal act. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Escort services offering sexual services euphemistically as 'entertainment' or 'companionship' are ubiquitous, with about 140 pages of the Las Vegas yellow pages devoted to "entertainers". Similar ads are present in newspaper boxes all along Las Vegas Boulevard. From the Strip to downtown Fremont Street at most bus stops and many street lights, a large collection of free flyers offering escort services with semi-nude pictures are available (see photo above). Moreover, smaller hand sized flyers are dispensed to tourists and others along the Las Vegas Strip, often right in front of the most high end hotels and casinos, by hired workers; these flyers also graphically depict female 'personal' entertainers or escort services. Despite the attempt to make Las Vegas more family-friendly, such advertising for these services are protected by the First Amendment and goes on undisturbed by police or hotel security. An Escort Service can refer to an: 1. ... For the use in computing, see Yellow Pages (computing). ... Las Vegas Boulevard is the current name for a road that has a historic past. ... Fremont Street by night. ... “First Amendment” redirects here. ...

Also, some gentlemen's clubs on the Strip offer VIP rooms, which claims to put the client in a private room with the dancer, and the client is given permission to do what they want with the dancer. More often than not, this offer is a scam, where the dancer proceeds to entice the client to spend money on expensive drinks, stringing him along. This continues as long as the customer keeps buying. Should the customer become impatient and demanding, insist on sex or refuse to buy more drinks, the girl will excuse herself and have bouncers forcibly eject the customer from the club. Because of his complicity in attempting to solicit the services of a prostitute, the customer has no legal recourse without incriminating or at least embarrassing himself.^[4]

History

Brothels have been tolerated in Nevada since the middle of the 19th century. One brothel in Elko has been in business since 1902. In 1937, a law was enacted to require weekly health checks of all prostitutes. Reno and Las Vegas had red light districts, when Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the suppression of all prostitution near military bases in 1942. When this order was lifted in 1948, Reno officials tried to shut down a brothel as a public nuisance, and this action was upheld by the Nevada Supreme Court in 1949. In 1951, both Reno and Las Vegas had closed their red light districts as public nuisances, but brothels continued to exist throughout the state. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elko, Nevada Elko is a city in Elko County, Nevada, United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A red-light district is a neighborhood where prostitution is a common part of everyday life. ... FDR redirects here. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Supreme Court of Nevada is the highest judicial body in the Nevada state government. ...

In 1970, Joe Conforte, owner of the brothel called Mustang Ranch near Reno, managed to convince county officials to pass an ordinance which would provide for the licensing of brothels and prostitutes, thus avoiding the threat of being closed down as a public nuisance. The Mustang Ranch, also known as the Mustang Bridge Ranch and as Valley of the Dolls, is a brothel in Storey County, Nevada, eight miles east of Reno. ... The Mustang Ranch was a brothel near Reno in Storey County, Nevada. ...

Officials in Las Vegas, afraid that Conforte would use the same trick to open a brothel nearby, convinced the legislature in 1971 to pass a law prohibiting the legalization of prostitution in counties with a population above a certain threshold, tailored to apply only to Clark County (NRS 244.345).

In 1977, county officials in Nye County tried to shut down Walter Plankinton's Chicken Ranch as a public nuisance; brothels did not have to be licensed in that county at the time, and several others were operating. Plankinton filed suit, claiming that the 1971 state law had implicitly removed the assumption that brothels are public nuisances per se. The Nevada Supreme Court agreed with this interpretation in 1978 (Nye County v. Plankinton, 94 Nev. 739, 587 P.2d 421 (1978)), and so the Chicken Ranch was allowed to operate. In another case, brothel owners in Lincoln County protested when the county outlawed prostitution in 1978, after having issued licenses for 7 years. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the county had the right to do so (Kuban v. McGimsey 96 Nev. 105, 110 (1980)). Nye County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. ... The Chicken Ranch is a legal, licensed brothel located about 60 miles west of Las Vegas near the town of Pahrump, in Nye County, at 10511 Homestead Road (location: , ). The 17 bed brothel sits on 40 acres of land. ... This page includes English translations of several Latin phrases and abbreviations such as . ...

The state law prohibiting the advertising of brothels in counties which have outlawed prostitution was enacted in 1979; it was promptly challenged on First Amendment grounds. The Nevada Supreme Court declared it to be constitutional (Princess Sea Industries, Inc., v. State, 97 Nev. 534; 635 P.2d 281 (1981)). (Princess Sea Industries was Plankinton's company that owned the Chicken Ranch.) The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ...

Several towns enacted rules prohibiting local brothel prostitutes from frequenting local bars or casinos or associating with local men outside of work. After the filing of a lawsuit in 1984, these regulations had to be abandoned, but as a result of collaboration between sheriffs and brothel owners, they remain in effect unofficially. For instance, most brothels do not allow the prostitutes to leave the premises during their work shifts of several days to several weeks.

While brothels and prostitutes are subject to federal income tax and also pay local fees, there is no state income tax in Nevada and brothels are exempt from the state entertainment tax and don't pay any other state taxes. In 2005 brothel owners lobbied to be taxed, in order to increase the legitimacy of the business; the legislature declined.^[5] Tax rates around the world Tax revenue as % of GDP Part of the Taxation series        The federal government of the United States imposes a progressive tax on the taxable income of individuals, corporations, trusts, decedents estates, and certain bankruptcy estates. ... State income tax is an income tax in the United States that is levied by each individual state. ...

In November 2005, Heidi Fleiss announced that she had partnered with brothel owner Joe Richards to turn Richards' existing Cherry Patch Ranch brothel in Crystal, Nevada into an establishment that employs male prostitutes and caters exclusively to female customers. This would be a first in Nevada. While not illegal under Nevada law, it is not clear how a male prostitute would meet the requirement to submit weekly cervical specimens which are examined for sexually transmitted diseases. Other portions of the Nevada and Nye County regulations refer to prostitutes as "her" with apparently no expectation of male prostitutes. Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30 1965), known as the Hollywood Madam, was an American madam. ... The Cherry Patch Ranch is one of two brothels in Crystal, Nye County, Nevada and is located on Ranch Road. ... Crystal is a hamlet in Nye County, Nevada about 80 miles from Las Vegas. ...

Politics

Occasionally, lawmakers attempt to introduce legislation outlawing all prostitution in Nevada. These efforts are typically supported by owners of casinos and other large businesses, claiming that legalized prostitution harms the state's image. The Nevada Brothel Owners' Association, led by George Flint, a minister from Reno, lobbies against these laws. Rural lawmakers normally oppose these laws as well, despite the fact that legal brothel prostitution does not provide a significant amount of income for counties. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

One particularly colorful opponent of legalized prostitution in Nevada was John Reese. Initially arguing on moral and religious grounds, he switched to health hazard tactics, but had to back down in the face of a threatened libel suit. In 1994, he tried to get a license for a gay brothel in a thinly veiled attempt to galvanize opposition against all brothels. Then in 1999 he staged his own kidnapping near the Mustang Ranch.^[6] His efforts to collect signatures in order to repeal the prostitution laws have failed.

Organizations supporting the rights of prostitutes typically favor deregulation and oppose Nevada-style regulation, mainly because of three reasons:

• the licensing requirements create a permanent record which can lead to discrimination later on;
• the large power difference between brothel owner and prostitute gives prostitutes virtually no influence on their working conditions;
• while prostitutes undergo legal and health background checks, their customers do not; the regulations are thus designed to protect customers, not prostitutes.

However, some other organizations support Nevada style regulations because:

• the regulations may help prevent pimping which they see as a worse exploitation than that from a brothel owner;
• under de-regulation, brothels would most likely exist anyway; but these unregulated brothels would be without oversight and the restrictions placed on Nevada brothels.

A poll conducted in Nevada in 2002^[7] found that 52% of the 600 respondents favored the status quo of legal and regulated brothels, while 31% were against laws that allow prostitution and the remainder were undecided, preferred fewer legal constraints on prostitution, or did not offer an opinion. The trend seems to be that new arrivals to Nevada tend to oppose legal prostitution while long-time Nevadans tend to support the status quo. Pimping v. ...

Nevada politicians can (and generally do) play both sides of the prostitution dispute by declaring that they are personally opposed to prostitution but feel it should be up to the counties to decide. As almost three-quarters of the population of Nevada lives in a single county (Clark County), county control over local matters is a hot-button issue. Legislators from the northern counties will often reflexively oppose what is seen as "meddling" from the majority in the south, and the legislators from the south have been too divided on the issue to push through a state-wide ban.

Museum

Crystal near Pahrump has a somewhat limited brothel art museum associated with two local brothels. Crystal is a hamlet in Nye County, Nevada about 80 miles from Las Vegas. ... An aerial view from March 2005 shows development scattered across the valley floor. ...

See also

• List of brothels in Nevada
• List of sexology topics

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Notes

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References

• Albert, Alexa, "Brothel. Mustang Ranch and its Women". Random House 2001. ISBN 0-375-50331-5
• Alexa E. Albert, David Lee Warner, and Robert A. Hatcher: "Facilitating Condom Use with Clients during Commercial Sex in Nevada's Legal Brothels", American Journal of Public Health, 88(4), 1998, pages 643-646, online abstract
• Brents, Barbara G. and Kathryn Hausbeck, "State Sanctioned Sex: Negotiating Formal and Informal Regulations in Nevada Brothels", Sociological Perspectives 44(3):307-332, 2001.
• Brents, Barbara G. and Kathryn Hausbeck, "Violence and Legalized Brothel Prostitution in Nevada: Examining Safety, Risk and Prostitution Policy", Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 20(3): 270-295, 2005
• Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale and Jacqueline Lewis, "Escort Services In A Border Town", Literature and Policy Summary Windsor: University of Windsor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1999. Study containing a section on prostitution in Nevada.
• Hausbeck, Kathryn and Barbara G. Brents, "Inside Nevada’s Brothel System", pp. 217-243 in Ronald Weitzer, ed., Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry. NY: Routledge, 2000.
• Vogliotti, Gabriel R., "The Girls of Nevada", Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1975.
• The Louvre of Libido, Las Vegas Review Journal, June 20, 1999. Report about a visit to the brothel museum in Crystal.

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External links

• Nevada's State and County Prostitution Laws