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Men Win Right to Be Hookers in Nevada

Brothel lobbyist predicts 'Pearl Harbor' for industry

By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 14, 2009 7:50 AM CST
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(Newser) – Gay marriage may have taken a few steps backwards this year, but male hookers just won the right to work in Nevada brothels, and they can choose to accept male or female clients, just as female prostitutes can. Men can now be employed as well as women, thanks to a change in laws that previously stipulated "cervical" STD testing for sex workers. And while it doesn't change the legal status of homosexuality itself, it's still stirred opposition.

“We’ve worked hard for years to make the traditional brothel business... socially acceptable and something we can be proud of,” a brothel industry lobbyist tells the Las Vegas Sun. “We have some concerns that this can be diluted.” He went on to compare the change to Pearl Harbor.

Randolph College students tour the historic Chicken Ranch brothel Thursday, April 10, 2008, in Pahrump, Nevada.
Randolph College students tour the historic Chicken Ranch brothel Thursday, April 10, 2008, in Pahrump, Nevada.   (AP Photo/ Ronda Churchill)
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GeminiMishy
Dec 16, 2009 4:35 AM CST
I suppose there may be an initial boom that causes them to make more money than their female counterparts, but I'm not sure it will last. But like you say, only time will tell.
Snarfeh
Dec 16, 2009 3:01 AM CST
Because I believe there are far more closeted bi-sexual and gay men in this world than anyone realizes or wants to realize. Currently, most of those men have to go parks, etc. to find gay prostitutes in order to have gay sex secretly (and most still will if they don't live in NV or go there often enough). Male prostitution is just as old as female prostitution. It's just not talked about, studied, accepted, etc. as much. I think giving those customers somewhere to go where it will be safe will result in a big boon for male prostitutes in NV. I can't prove any of this and it is, of course, just my opinion and/or speculation. Only time will tell; it will be interesting to revisit this a year or so down the road.
GeminiMishy
Dec 15, 2009 10:37 AM CST
What makes you think they will have more customers Snarfeh? I would actually think the opposite.

 
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