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Male prostitution is Nevada's newest legal profession
Los Angeles Times / latimes.com ^ | January 5, 2010 | 9:23 p.m. | By Ashley Powers

Posted on 01/05/2010 10:07:22 PM PST by thecodont

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, the 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: brothels; chitchat; nevada; prostitution
"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!"
1 posted on 01/05/2010 10:07:24 PM PST by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Then what’s it called when Harry Reid sells not only his soul, but sells out America???


2 posted on 01/05/2010 10:09:15 PM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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To: thecodont

Congress has been doing it for quite a while.


3 posted on 01/05/2010 10:10:53 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! The real reason the left wants to disarm us is becoming clearer.)
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To: thecodont

4 posted on 01/05/2010 10:11:45 PM PST by robomatik (III %)
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To: pillut48

I was going to ask...The Dinge doesn’t count?


5 posted on 01/05/2010 10:12:15 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: thecodont

I’ve been waiting long and hard for this one...:>))


6 posted on 01/05/2010 10:16:42 PM PST by liberty or death
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To: thecodont

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...except AIDS, of course.


7 posted on 01/05/2010 10:25:11 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
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To: thecodont; All
"Male prostitution is Nevada's newest legal profession"


8 posted on 01/05/2010 10:27:26 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: thecodont

Finally. A place for priapism sufferers to seek relief (and a paycheck).


9 posted on 01/05/2010 11:04:53 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: thecodont
Her Shady Lady Ranch is searching for "service-oriented" guys willing to become Nevada's first legal male sex workers.

Legal being the operative word, of course.

I suspect that most of the people interested in partaking of these "shady men" will be gay males. A few women may be interested in hiring a gigolo, but I doubt there will be very many.

10 posted on 01/05/2010 11:07:10 PM PST by DemforBush (Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
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To: thecodont

Has anyone told BLarney Franks?


11 posted on 01/05/2010 11:10:02 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: DemforBush

Even debauched women who want to hire a man for sex probably don’t want one that’s been with ten other men this week.

I predict epic fail. I certainly hope it’s an epic fail.


12 posted on 01/05/2010 11:25:44 PM PST by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: rbosque

has the Hil taken this abroad yet?


13 posted on 01/05/2010 11:57:34 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: All

"Let me reassure you, ma'am. I can assure you profssional hygeine, discretion and animal gratification."

http://www.hulu.com/watch/3514/saturday-night-live-fred-garvin-male-prostitute

14 posted on 01/06/2010 12:32:37 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Marie2
I think it will be a booming enterprise for gay men........

so here's our brave new world..

..your teenage boys will be enticed to make a few hundred dollars or more a night by servicing some old, fat homos.

just think....ads in local newspapers for male "dancers" and "escorts" ....

this is the world that some have wanted....

and here it is....

15 posted on 01/06/2010 12:59:45 AM PST by cherry
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