Speaking of the sex trade, try Red State entertainment: Vegas Ups Ante

[NVMojo]

And the mayor of all of this is loved by all and Senator Harry Reid's choice to join him in the Senate instead of Jack Carter! LOL!

Vegas Ups the Ante

The Las Vegas topless scene is a couples scene nowadays, and there are several women in the audience who don't appear to be at all put out by the lap dancers crawling all over their mates. Some of these women are getting dances themselves and are enjoying them in a way that makes me wonder if men have a permanent future on this earth. Still, I long for more action. I call a second cab, absorb another round of nutty patter, and am driven to what the driver tells me is a friendlier, less lugubrious establishment favored by in-the-know locals: the Spearmint Rhino. I like the frisky, surrealistic name, but I'm curious as to whether its inventor spoke English.

The Rhino is smaller, smokier, and shabbier than Jaguars, but I like its straightforward spirit. The performers seem kind, not cold and predatory, and though a few of them are on the chubby side they radiate sympathy for their customers, some of whom seem to be stuffing their last few dollars into the ladies' sweaty garter belts. The lights are brighter here, too. What you see is what you get, no suggestive obscurity or artsy shadow play. It's like a Wild West dance hall, bold and raunchy. Some of the girls are named Kitty, I suspect, and a few have kids and husbands waiting up for them.

It doesn't pay to think deeply about such things, though.

I walk back to the Bellagio, steering by its luminous white turret and passing faces ecstatic and agonized, animated and thwarted—a living wax museum devoted to the follies of humankind. Las Vegas, especially along the Strip, is one of the great people-watching cities. The escort-service promoters work all night, handing out playing card-sized photos of women who plan, no doubt, to settle down someday but for now count their German shepherds as their best friends. Most of these calling cards end up on the sidewalk, and they're worth stooping over to collect; they make provocative bookmarks, but calling the phone numbers on them isn't advisable. Prostitution is illegal in the city, though one senses that the crime isn't often prosecuted.

What happens here, stays here. Tell it to the judge.

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http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/invoke.cfm?page=2&objectid=82F75729-419C-444E-8852297D6A812C3E

[Retired AF Dem]

1. Nature sucks

If it wasn't for straight males and females there could never be a gay debate. Sorry but us straight guys are needed. :)

[NVMojo]

3. LOL!!

[Justice Is Comin]

2. They got a better

chance transferring the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean with a spoon than they do stopping prostitution.

The sooner these moral morons learn that the better off we'll be and the cops can spend their time reducing real crime. All they do is create more demand and drive the prices up.

A post never wore out a hole.

[benburch]

4. Their answer is buying lots of spoons.

And just as useless.

[pitohui]

6. they got a better chance of stopping murder too

your point is?

the reason whores work illegally in clark county instead of legally in other nevada counties is because they are outside the law and rolling (robbing) their customers

sex workers do have options in nevada for working in safe, legal environments, many would rather work in an environment where they can instead pick the pocket of the gambler, no doubt you are correct in saying such people will always exist, nonetheless the robbery should always be a crime correct?

victimizing someone should not be excused because they were an awful, terrible, horrible sinner who commited the crime of being horny

[Justice Is Comin]

9. Crimes will always be part of

anything that generates money. If they legalized prostitution tomorrow, the problems would be instantly eliminated. There would be no black market, the obscene money would be taken out of it and the industry would police itself.

Girls that couldn't get a date in real life wouldn't be getting $300 an hour and people who were victimized wouldn't fail to report the crime because of a stigma.

The fogie morons are pepetuating an idiotic attempt to regulate something as stupid as prohibition was and doing nothing but proliferating problems exponentially to the tenth power.

Legalize drugs and prostitution tomorrow and the crime will drop instantly. If you want to insure crime, make it illegal and create the black market. Only brain dead dolts would be too stupid to understand that.

[pitohui]

10. did you know prostitution was legal in many nevada counties?

next time read the post you are responding to

the reason whores in clark county (las vegas) don't want prostitution legalized is because a licensed, legal market for sex would hurt their income, a drug user who cannot pass an hiv test can't get work in a brothel where they test for aids, a whore who supplements her income by stealing from drunks (aka every whore in clark county) will see a huge drop in her income if suddenly there are legal licensed whores who don't steal who go to your hotel room in vegas/clark county

you are naive my friend

i have no problem w. sex work but no illusions abt it either

it is up to clark county to decide if they want legalized prostitution, not up to you or i who are only visitors there, they decided no

and look in your soul and ask yourself, what have you done today to legalize prostitution in your own neighborhood?

i thought so, not that i'm any better, i'm perfectly happy to support coyote and the rights of sex workers but, no, not in my neighborhood

we've got to start from honesty and honesty w. ourselves, if you don't want legal sex work in your neighborhood, don't stand there and tell me it's OK in someone else's neighborhood

[Justice Is Comin]

12. Since we have a back and forth here,

I not only wouldn't mind it in my neighborhood if it was legal, I would love to live in Amsterdam where it is not only legal, but the police protect the prostitutes. In Hamburg, Germany the police station is one block from the red light district. There is almost no trouble at all. The last thing the hookers want is trouble.

Furthermore, I used to live in Las Vegas so I'm not the slightest bit naieve about this or speculating from around the corner about something I don't know anything about. I saw the black and white bus picking up the street walkers every night and just wasting their time because after the bond was posted, they were right back on their corners. All it was, was a minor inconvenience to the hookers.

Legalize it everywhere and do the drugs the same day or keep on the way it is now and be the permanent joke of logic.

[AX10]

5. There is no real way to stop Las Vegas.

It's like the Energizer bunny, it just keeps on going and going.

[FreakinDJ]

7. Bush admin is NOT "Exporting Jobs"

This is one place where the Bush admin is NOT "Exporting Jobs"

Overall, the Bush administration has devoted more than $295 million in anti-trafficking program assistance in more than 120 countries, according to the State Department. More than 2,800 people around the world have been convicted of trafficking-related crimes in the past three years, and 24 countries have enacted new anti-trafficking legislation. One of George W. Bush’s favorite U.S. programs is the International Justice Mission (IJM), which is run by Gary Haugen, 41, author of Good News About Injustice, and Sharon Cohn, 34, the organization’s vice president of interventions, who has overseen brothel raids in Cambodia.

The movement’s most prominent figures include right-wing policy-makers, a Jewish “moral entrepreneur,” and evangelical leaders, whom critics call overzealous and moralistic. Together, the “abolitionists” have formed a potent political force (“It’s the most powerful coalition for human rights in America today -- perhaps in the world -- all under the radar screen of the press,” says one of its adherents) known for steamrolling opponents and stifling dissenting voices
Last year, Horowitz, Colson, and others decided to oust Miller’s predecessor, Nancy Ely-Raphael
Regardless of Ely-Raphael’s taste in shoes, Horowitz, Colson, and other evangelical leaders told the White House to dump her. They wanted to install Miller

In a show of strength, Horowitz and Colson prevailed over Rove, who allowed them to anoint Miller as director of what would soon become the “abolitionist” outpost in the State Department
Bush’s focus on trafficking is a victory for Horowitz and evangelical leaders in their efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.

In terms of scope, financial resources, and the president’s attention, though, the anti-trafficking initiative may be the “abolitionists’” crowning achievement. The campaign took off in January 1998, when Horowitz began to forge bonds with evangelical leaders like Colson and feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Jessica Neuwirth of Equality Now. They all worked together on a global campaign to fight trafficking and, along with it, prostitution.

And many anti-trafficking leaders have been shunned because they’ve refused to sign a contract that supports the Bush administration’s position.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=8763

[AnnieBW]

8. I Love Las Vegas!

The sheer number of people wearing crosses and/or religious themed t-shirts in the casinos is amusing to say the least. It's where Red-Staters go to lose their inhibitions. I even saw a Hillary-bashing trinket in one of the cheap shirt/gift shops - which caused me to turn around and walk out without purchasing anything. They didn't have what we needed (wrap-around sunglasses to replace the ones that my husband broke) and what they did have could have been bought anywhere.

As for the couples strip-club, that's a definite ick. I'm no prude - in fact, I told my husband that if he wanted to go to a strip club, that was fine with me. I'd go see the Chippendales. :D But I do kinda draw the line at going with him.

[pitohui]

11. you should go w. him or not at all

do you understand what happens in strip clubs?

a lap dance is a girl masturbating a man's personal area w. her ass

i'm sorry, that is cheating

my husband is free to go anywhere he likes and do anything he likes but if he choose to have sex -- and that is sex, even if not complete intercourse -- w. another woman then it's time for me to hit the road

my husband would not tolerate me being rubbed off by another man, even thru my clothes, well, guess what, sauce for the gander

i'm tired of a world where men can have sex w. as many women as they like as long as they can pay for it but women don't have the same options

fair is fair, ya know?