Interesting book on Amazon about sex work/escort agencies in the US

[tmmsmyth]

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I had heard about this former agency in Las Vegas before but did not realize it's owner wrote a book about it. Interesting as it was shutdown on the initiative of the owner not that of law enforcement(although there is a mug shot of the owner/author floating around from a different unrelated set of charges) after the press published the identity of one of the providers(former track and field star Suzy Favor Hamilton). Anyways the book is quite interesting. I have always thought as unfriendly as US courts are to sex work Nevada's laws on the subject are particularly vulnerable for the same reason Canada's pre Bedford laws were. Prostitution isn't absolutely illegal in Nevada it is "only" illegal in certain circumstances i.e. outside of licensed brothels that can only be located in certain parts of the state. From reading this book I get the impression that Nevada law enforcement and prosecutors are kind of reluctant to actually press there luck in court against fully consensual sex work outside of the "legal" brothel system. A lot of conflicts of interest too with hotel/casino companies.

Anyways good book that touches on every part of the industry from trafficked survival sex workers to the very "highest" end, review boards like TER, etc. Somewhat curious as to why after 2014 no one has started an agency again in Vegas that is as high end and reputable as the author Jami Rodman's was. Obviously there are more advertising options for independents now than back then but as the author describes the whole idea of agency came out of the problems she encountered working independently in the 2000s. It definitely seems to be the case that at the very least outcall agencies should be made explicitly legal in Nevada including in places like Las Vegas where brothels are not permitted in the author's opinion.

 

[mandrill]

I suspect that prostitution is covertly tolerated in LV because it boosts the tourist industry. But there are a token # of busts and sacrificial victims each year to show that the "cops are on the job".

That's essentially how Toronto operated in the 1980's and 1990's.

 

[tmmsmyth]

I suspect that prostitution is covertly tolerated in LV because it boosts the tourist industry. But there are a token # of busts and sacrificial victims each year to show that the "cops are on the job".

That's essentially how Toronto operated in the 1980's and 1990's.

So as a political matter the casinos and hotels have for many years strongly opposed the expansion of legal brothels to Clark County, NV(basically Las Vegas and a wide swath of the surrounding area). Additionally the casinos also claim that do not officially condone any of their employees facilitating or referring guests to providers of prostitution. Unofficially the casinos and their employees are up over their heads in the sex business. If you are a big time high roller and you approach your casino "host" and say you are interested in meeting some "girls" the casino host has a long of list of providers on there referral list almost certainly. In fact according to the book casino hosts i.e. the flunky's who cater to the needs of high rolls often will have providers show up unsolicited say if there is a particular gambler who is winning too much at the tables and the casino would like to distract them for a while or get them away from the casino floor.

Of course there are all sorts of kickbacks and financial referral arrangement between hosts and individual SP's. Basically the casino hosts get a whole extra source of income the casino's themselves don't have to pay for. The more interesting thing I found is book author pointed that despite escort "agencies" having to be licensed like in Western Canada most LV escort agencies are basically complete scams i.e. fake pictures, constant upselling, etc and because licensed agencies legally can't sell sex if you get scammed into getting something far less than you were expecting well you really can't go to the cops to complain. Agencies can get written up on US review boards like TER but most people familiar with review boards are going to stay away from most agencies in Las Vegas as most are disreputable and don't have good reviews. Instead most agencies in LV are catering to the dumb tourist market.

This video below talks about how this works. In Vegas I guess they call them "clip joints"

 

[mandrill]

Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

I had heard about this former agency in Las Vegas before but did not realize it's owner wrote a book about it. Interesting as it was shutdown on the initiative of the owner not that of law enforcement(although there is a mug shot of the owner/author floating around from a different unrelated set of charges) after the press published the identity of one of the providers(former track and field star Suzy Favor Hamilton). Anyways the book is quite interesting. I have always thought as unfriendly as US courts are to sex work Nevada's laws on the subject are particularly vulnerable for the same reason Canada's pre Bedford laws were. Prostitution isn't absolutely illegal in Nevada it is "only" illegal in certain circumstances i.e. outside of licensed brothels that can only be located in certain parts of the state. From reading this book I get the impression that Nevada law enforcement and prosecutors are kind of reluctant to actually press there luck in court against fully consensual sex work outside of the "legal" brothel system. A lot of conflicts of interest too with hotel/casino companies.

Anyways good book that touches on every part of the industry from trafficked survival sex workers to the very "highest" end, review boards like TER, etc. Somewhat curious as to why after 2014 no one has started an agency again in Vegas that is as high end and reputable as the author Jami Rodman's was. Obviously there are more advertising options for independents now than back then but as the author describes the whole idea of agency came out of the problems she encountered working independently in the 2000s. It definitely seems to be the case that at the very least outcall agencies should be made explicitly legal in Nevada including in places like Las Vegas where brothels are not permitted in the author's opinion.

The problem is that the US does not have a record of judicial liberalism towards sex and sex work and Canada does. The US has no equivalent to Bedford , or Anwar . The Canadian constitutional law position on sex work is purely 100% the creation of liberal judicial activism because there is no wording in s.7 that compels a court to decriminalize sex work in the way that Canadian courts have done over the last few years.

The US attitude to sex work appears to be Medieval in comparison and I can't see the same line of caselaw developing down there.

 

[MRBJX]

Las vegas is for escorting is for newbs with no clue - Eastern Europe, Australia far better options, hell Canada has far superior options.

 

[tmmsmyth]

The problem is that the US does not have a record of judicial liberalism towards sex and sex work and Canada does. The US has no equivalent to Bedford , or Anwar . The Canadian constitutional law position on sex work is purely 100% the creation of liberal judicial activism because there is no wording in s.7 that compels a court to decriminalize sex work in the way that Canadian courts have done over the last few years.

The US attitude to sex work appears to be Medieval in comparison and I can't see the same line of caselaw developing down there.

The argument you would make in the US is a 14th amendment equal protection under the law one. Nevada because prostitution is not criminalized in all circumstances is probably more vulnerable to a 14th Amendment challenge along these lines. But you are correct there is little 14th Amendment case law favorable towards sex work but it is also true that most 14th amendment case law IS mostly the creation of liberal judicial activism just like in Canada it is just again US courts have never gone in favor of ruling

 

[Viffleros]

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