Taking the "Sin" Out of Sin City
July 8, 2009
This week, one of our local strip clubs known as Deja Vu was busted by local law enforcement, and 13 girls were arrested for “soliciting prostitution”. This was one of the largest single busts at a club in recent Vegas history.
It was hardly an isolated enforcement incident, however.
Starting earlier this year, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been aggressively targeting all forms of prostitution, busting call-girls, massage therapists, and they have even created something called a “prostitute order out zone”.
Taking the "Sin" out of Sin City
When I first heard this term, I naturally assumed that I would be able to pick up the phone and order out for a ho’ as easily as I could a pizza, but I was sorely disappointed when I learned what it really meant. In reality, the “order out zone” has become a zero-tolerance area of draconian enforcement of paid carnal relations.
The zone encompasses all of The Strip from Russel Rd. north, and from Paradise Rd. to the I-15 on the east and west respectively.
Since I happen to live in this zone, my mother can no longer visit me. There, I beat you to it.
Our pretend local “news”paper turned-government-informant (The Review Journal) is even gleefully participating in this clusterf— . Several months ago, they ran a front page story showcasing “Las Vegas’ 50 most prolific prostitutes”. Given the fact that everyone who works for the RJ is an intellectual prostitute, one might wonder how their editorial staff avoided the list, but the mainstream news works in mysterious ways.
In any event, with legalized prostitution only 60 miles away in Nye County, it remains of paramount curiosity to me why this has become such a high enforcement priority in Las Vegas. Scratch that, it remains of paramount curiosity to me why this is a priority at all.
As the LVCVA continues to market the “What Happens in Vegas” brand in an effort to further the naughty mystique of “Sin City”, one cannot help but wonder how this particular sweep helps to meet those objectives.
When you have law enforcement going into strip clubs and clearing out the joint with guns and handcuffs because the woman hinted at some side action while shaking her ass, you’ve basically created an intolerant atmosphere not wholly unlike what many people experience back home. Possibly worse.
As the city continues to bleed cash and suffer a recession that it can ill-afford, law enforcement is running around taking our best sausage smokers off the street. Obviously, this would not be happening if the casinos did not fully endorse the endeavor, but I fail to see the benefit to tourism.
In my opinion, these massive arrests only further the growing perception that the mythological “sin” in this town simply does not exist on any real level. The things that are illegal in most other cities, are also illegal in Las Vegas.
On a personal note, I have never understood how prostitution could be a crime when 90% of the population engages in it on a routine basis.
How many men in this town ply strange women with free drinks, free limo rides, free meals, and free rooms … in blatant exchange for intercourse? I submit to you that it happens thousands of times a night in this town. Every night.
How many men across the nation have sprung for dinner and a movie with the sincere hope that they would get their knob polished after the closing credits?
The answer to the above question is – all of them.
Face it, unless buying something for a relative, anything purchased by a male for a female is predicated on the notion that sex will be the reward. In the southern states, the exception for a relative does not apply.
Apparently, dinner and drinks is a perfectly acceptable method to get laid, but if you simply give a girl the equivalent in cash … it becomes a crime. I do not now, nor will I ever understand it.
Women have been putting out for monetary gain since the beginning of time. The act is as natural as breathing. It is impossible to stop.
Why do you think men buy expensive cars?
I assure you that it has nothing to do with the “comfort of the ride”. There is no practical difference between a BMW and a Toyota when you are sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic. An expensive car is nothing more than a bold statement that says “Look at me, there is no way in hell I could possibly get laid without this thing!”
Do you actually think that men go to expensive schools for long periods of time to get expensive degrees and get well-paying jobs because they actually like the jobs and they actually want to contribute to society?
No. They do it because a lawyer with a Porsche will attract more materialistic (and thus hot) women than will a janitor with a Ford Escort. If the reverse were true, the world would be full of janitors. I guarantee it.
Men only care about money insofar as to the quality of poontang it can procure, and conversely women only care about men in direct relation to the amount for which they can sell that poontang.
The entire world is a whoreocracy.
Want proof? How about “spousal maintenance”.
Supposedly … women aren’t objects and possessions, yet they are to be “maintained” long after their coochie (and everything else) has lost its fair market value. I don’t know about you, but I don’t “maintain” anything I don’t own.
If a female can get a man of sufficient means to pork her, then she is set for life monetarily. She is “maintained”. This, my friends, is not just prostitution … but super-prostitution. It’s also perfectly legal.
I don’t know about you, but this entire system seems far more insidious to me than just paying $300 once to play cram the cannoli for an hour and being done with it.
Wait!
I just had a moment.
These moments happen from time to time.
I was actually enlightened while typing this.
As I am sitting here giving it some thought, I think I have stumbled upon the reason why the simple exchange of sex for cash is a crime.
If men could just cut to the chase, and pay for the pooter as-needed, the world economy would crumble.
Think about it.
There would be no more jewelry sales, everybody would buy second-hand junk cars, every man would work at McDonald’s, and no large houses would be purchased to keep the “maintained” females.
In Las Vegas, nightclubs would disappear overnight. No straight male likes standing around preening like a douche in a dark club … or worse … dancing. Do you really think they like the latest mash-up of Beyonce’s new song? Given that a stunning in-call lady is about the same price as bottle service at LAX … who in their right mind would order bottle service at LAX?
Men would stop playing black chips to impress the ladies. They would stop tipping in a manner that is supposed to convey the size of their pecker. Limo companies would go under as men opted to take a cab or simply walk (more money for the meat curtains later).
Alcohol sales would plunge as men wouldn’t have to get women drunk to nail them, nor would they have to drink as much themselves to turn a 4 looking female into a 9.
Given that so much of our local economy is built on testosterone-fueled stupidity and the pursuit of tourist ass, we would go down the economic tubes in short order were our male patrons simply allowed to plop down a couple hundred dollars, then fall asleep watching the in-room television an hour later … or in my case, three minutes later.
On second thought, this Vegas “prostitution” crackdown makes perfect sense.
Never mind.
Carry on.
Written by philipj on July 8, 2009 at 10:56 am
Just taking a break from vacation, and enjoyed your prostitution story.
Some years back I was visiting in California with a Deputy I knew. On a tour of his station I came upon a STROLL AREA list on a wall. He explained that hookers on probation were banned from the area known for STROLLING for busniess. That is the first time I had ever came across any such notice. When probation was over mug shots were posted of “Guess who’s back to work”.
Written by Disco Stu on July 8, 2009 at 10:59 am
Brilliant as always. That massage place over on Paradise Rd is WAY cheaper than bottle service.
Written by Chuckreis on July 8, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Three minutes? Show off.
Written by eric s on July 8, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Prostitution busts are all about police statistics. Busting a ho, or a john, is easy, fast and safe. It pumps up the number of ‘pops’ per day that the brass can point to in order to justify their positions.
A lot of the high-level ‘management level’ positions (aka concigliare) in Clark County are filled by Mormon men–who are deluded into thinking that what they are doing is ‘helping society.’ A lot of them are probably buying the poon (or sausage) on the side, or are receiving large gratuities from the syndicates that are running the local poon franchises.
These media busts will do as much for reducing prostitution in Vegas as the media drug busts do for reducing the amount of narcotics available. Notgonnahappen.
Written by Willam Braun on July 8, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I saw what to me as a 20 year resident was the most blatant undercover cop trolling as a hooker last Friday. She was wearing a black ho dress you only see in movies near Charleston and LVB. She was pretty, fit, young oh and a white girl. All signs of a woman who would ply her trade online or in a casino bar, nowhere near the hood. So it does seem like they are stepping it up as I have never seen a decoy over there.
Written by FoolsGold on July 9, 2009 at 3:43 am
Beautiful women are the coin of the realm and the blatant display of low-quality merchadise debases the currency.
Casinos want men to pursue the coin of the realm via the usual substitutes: chocolate, alcohol, dinners, preening. The casinos don’t want the coin of the realm debased because that also debases the substitutes. What man would preen for a half-naked woman via a stack of black chips if one white chip could get him what he wanted from a fully naked flatbacker?
Written by dane glindeuce on July 9, 2009 at 7:52 am
“Since I happen to live in this zone, my mother can no longer visit me. There, I beat you to it.”
Dammit!!!! You win this round, Rex.
Written by GeorgeX on July 10, 2009 at 1:26 am
Once I got talking to a guy who delivered a mattress I had purchased. He told me that he had come into a large sum of money, 160K or something like that. In six months he had spent it all in the strip clubs. Contrary to what Chris Rock says, he WAS getting laid in the champagne rooms. Often paying for 2 women at a time. He said his most expensive time was with the blonde that was often featured on the Sh**ri’s Cabaret billboards. He said he dropped 14k on her in one night. I asked him why he just didn’t hire regular escorts as that would be cheaper, he said he tried it but it was not the same for him. He was telling me all this with a smile on his face, he didn’t seem to have any regrets. He wasn’t a bad looking guy either, but his teeth were all messed up, I kinda wondered why he didn’t spend a few grand getting his teeth fixed.
Written by keith on July 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm
i was just thinking why Clark county doesn’t legalize prostitution, have brothels on the Strip, and tax the crap out of it…then it dawned on me – does Nye county collect taxes on the brothels? If so, i wonder if they pay a kickback to Clark county to keep them from legalizing prostitution. If it’s legal on the strip, people would have no reason to drive to Nye and it would deny them what is probably their main source of public funding (depending on whether or not they tax the brothels).
Makes sense, in a conspiracy/old-school-mob-run-kickback vegas kind of way.
I say when Rex becomes mayor that he figure a way to legalize prostitution in Clark Co.
Or at least get a cut of that vig to fuel his poker budget.
Written by ColinFromLasVegas on July 10, 2009 at 4:40 pm
From my understanding of the law in Nevada, the way it is now, every county in Nevada is allowed to have legalized prostitution, except for those counties that have a population over 200,000 people. And that is only two counties: Washoe (where Reno is) and Clark (where Las Vegas is). Way back when (I think in the 1930s), this caveat was put in there to prevent undesirable elements from flocking to brothels and causing mischief and problems. And these undesirable elements identified at that time were….military. There was a fear that off duty military would pile into brothels en masse, drink up all their liquor, cuss up a storm, defile every wench in sight and generally disturb the peace and good order of the land. Serious “Full Metal Jacket” stuff. Nowadays, this is all kind of overcome by events. Tourists, and not military, probably all do that kinda stuff more than the military, because active duty servicemen gotta be politically correct at all times, or they get slapped severely. I would think for brothels there’s more important things to worry about rather than soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines causing hate, discontent and mayhem.
So, those laws still stand. That’s why the crackdowns continue. The law is on the books.
Which leads me to my point. You can rant and rave and scream about the police all you want. But they are doing their thing. It’s a law and they gotta enforce it. And their “pussy posse” roundups didn’t work (as they don’t work in any large city…because they’re right back out there in the street after bail). So, they are trying to get innovative and identifying the worst ones. The only purpose for this is to get the public involved (including casino security) and to keep them off of the Strip.
And, by the way, as a footnote…. From talking to casino security on the Strip, they all agree there is only one thing that will get rid of the hooks. Rain. When it rains, they disappear. They’re like cats. They don’t like to get their fur wet.
So, if people are adamant about no hooks on the Strip, pray for some serious rain all the time. But, alas, this is the desert. If you spit about twelve times in a row, that’s probably more rain than we get all year.
Anways, I don’t know if this is the right way to go about it. So, don’t bite my head off. I’m just trying to look at this realistically. But, I guess you have to commend Metro for trying to change the rules around a bit and get others involved in it. Doing that community thing and getting everyone in the mix.
Besides, the police don’t have the luxury to pick and choose which laws to enforce and which ones to turn a blind eye to. It’s a law and they can’t disregard it. They don’t operate under, oh, what the hell, we don’t agree with this law, we’ll do our own moral judgment clause on this, you hookers can ply your business all you want anywhere you want, we’ll do something else. They can’t operate like that. Just one of them things.
So, the logical thing is to change the laws around to include ALL of Nevada. That would fix that portion. But I still think they would have illegal prostitution problems here. The Strip is too much of a lure for the criminal element.
But then again, maybe keith up above there has the right idea in his comment about Rex becoming Mayor. I’ll vote for Rex and let him figger this crap out later…..