Oh, minions, minions… what cruel beast has wreaked the wrath of morning upon me? Why must work loom?
WRONG. That’s what working for a living is. Wrong. One of these days the spirit in the sky’s gonna get the memo where I asked for a stretch of private beach in Bali with a cute pool boy playing lapdog and bringing me drink after drink and newspapers. Working for a living is so uncouth. I’d be so good at a life of slack.
But at least I not only have a job, but a cushy, easy job of watching television. The good thing about recessions is, you can always count on people eating, and watching television. So my job’s secure.
Which is not really what you can say to some of the fine women plying the world’s oldest profession down in the great state of Nevada.
Sadly, the Nevada Brothel Owner’s Association is admitting they’ve been hurt something awful by the new economy and the crippling gas prices. Even truckers just can’t find the coin to get shagged roadside anymore.
Times they are a-changin’, friends. The brothels, of course, are thinking outside the sex-filled box, and coming up with creative ways to jog their businesses. According to CNN:
Under a promotion under way at the Moonlite BunnyRanch near Carson City, the first 100 customers who arrive with government stimulus checks receive twice the services for the same regular price.”We’re calling it double your stimulus,” said BunnyRanch owner Dennis Hof. “The brothel industry is having to get more creative just like all consumer products in America. Everybody has got to deal, and we’re doing the same thing.”
Twice the services, hey? Very nice. But strangely out of keeping with a government cheque.
You can read the rest of the story here.
Tomorrow, I’ll feed you something new. Come back then.
I just can’t feel too sorry that male brothel owners are losing money. In any other state they would be pimps and prosecuted.
Yeah, sorry, I disagree with ya there.
There’s a WORLD of difference between brothel owners and pimps.
Pimps can be (and usually are) vile, evil fuckers who use drugs to control their prostitutes. They can be violent, manipulative, and do not pay well, constantly causing the women who work under them to remain victims because they need to maintain their power over the women to keep them on their leashes. The women are paid only enough to live on, usually, which tends to perpetuate the poverty and need that keeps them as the lowest-paid workers in the sex trade.
That’s when you have the fake “illegal” prostitution most places in North America have. It’s a lie because there are escorts working newspapers and advertising on the net. No one’s stupid enough to think they’re all just arm-bound eye-candy. It’s a joke! Yet you have disenfranchised hookers and addicts working for ridiculous rates on seedy, dangerous streets where crime and drugs are rampant. Yet people think this is taking the moral HIGH ROAD in our society? Come on! Remove the blinders.
Brothel owners, however, are legal employers and are bound by laws that govern offices, retail businesses, and even the brothel’s employer-employee relations.
Many, probably all, provide health and medical, something your average prostitute probably only dreams of. They also enforce safe practices in a healthy environs, thereby protecting the women that work there.
And you’re jumping to conclusions that it’s all male owners. Truth is, there’s probably a lot of female owners too. Why do you think it’s always women getting busted as the heads of escort rings?
Anyhow, yeah, I strongly disagree with that statement.
In a city that has been just butchered by murders of prostitutes, with dozens and dozens having been killed, and many more missing, in the past three decades, I LONG TO HAVE BROTHELS AND LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION IN MY PROVINCE.
It would save many lives, and it’d get some of the hardest hit women a safe place to get out of the cycles they’ve found themselves in while making, by most standards, a pretty sweet living.
Unfortunately, a lot of people reach the same conclusion as you because they just don’t know enough about how much better the legal sex trade is run compared to the pseudo-illicit one, and it’s for that reason that women will probably keep dying in my city.
And that’s just not right. That got heavier for me than I expected it to but hey. It’s a big issue ’round these parts.