A VERY WELL NAME: “THE CITY OF SIN”

The United States is a country of high contrasts. It is common to find societies of total permissiveness in sexual matters, and others of a very puritanical and repressive nature with regard to carnal matters. In the first of these extremes we naturally place the famous "Mecca of gambling"... and of sex. And by the way, sex work in Las Vegas has many peculiarities.

variety and quantity

That city where “everything that happens in it stays”, according to the popular saying, presents a sexual offer as varied as that of the game: practically infinite.

The specialized site https://www.wikisexguide.com indicates that sex work in Las Vegas is illegal. But it is so tolerated that if it were legal you would not notice the difference. It lists so many dizzying sex benefits. Prostitution, female and male escorts and escorts, sex webcams, legal brothels, red light districts, sex shops, cabarets and erotic clubs. All.

On paper, sex work in Las Vegas is illegal unless it takes place in licensed brothels. That happens in 10 of the 16 counties in the State. But in everyday reality, the picture is very different.

A striking fact is the large number of legal brothels that are located in smaller counties around the city. There are more than 30 of them, some huge and quite famous, in towns like Reno, Carson City and Nye County.

Thus, a circuit of brothels is formed that surrounds the great capital. Almost as many visitors circulate through it as among the gigantic hotel-casinos that have given it worldwide fame.

From the room to the club, in a limousine

There are many companies that we could call "thematic receptive tourism", and that offer "combos" with services such as:

• Packages for bachelor parties
• Packages for a “singles night” (obviously dedicated to married men)
• birthday party packages
• "Bottle" service (VIP entrance to discos and clubs for adults, without queuing. With a reserved table or booth and a bottle of top-brand champagne, plus unlimited beer for two hours. There is also access to "pool parties" often organized by these clubs)
• There are packages for women, especially on the occasion of bachelorette parties, with male stripper shows, obviously.

Always, or almost, limousine transfers, a "VIP" host, and à la carte dinners are included, depending on the place chosen. All in about eight hours of service, on average.

Sex Not Included

None of this includes escort services. But each visitor can agree with those who practice sex work in Las Vegas, be they female escorts or independent masculine, “outside” the packages. The multiple attractions of this “entertainment capital of the world” attract both sex workers and those who demand their services.

That is why it is an important destination for bachelor parties, and it is common to hire dancers, strippers and other artists for private parties in hotel suites. Each companion sets their own price, and there is usually a fee to be paid in advance for them to go to the hotel rooms. There the rest of the services are agreed.

A scandal, two books, several truths

In 2012, the world of high competition sports in the United States was shaken by a scandal of great proportions. It was for a prestigious athlete who had represented the country in three Olympics and with seven medals in athletics. She confessed to having worked in a luxury escort agency in Las Vegas. She was among the escorts living those stories about Nevada and the famous parties in Las Vegas.

Suzy Favor-Hamilton She recognized her addiction, bipolarity and mania problems that made her as hyper competitive as she was hyper sexualized. And he told it in his best-selling book "Fast Girl: A life spent running from madness" ("Fast Girl: A life running from madness"). She worked at the luxury escort agency "Haley Heston Primate Collection" under the pseudonym of Kelly Lundy.

Soon after, another book shed more light on these matters. It was the one who ran the escort agency where the athlete was employed, Jamie Rodson. She published “The Las Vegas Madam: the Escorts, the Clients, the Truth”

That book tells of her experiences and opinions as one of the most important "madames" in the world of sex work in Las Vegas. And he adds a sociological point of view with data that lifts the veils on these very particular places and professions, in a special city.

Without giving names, he says that to find out who his clients were, all you have to do is look at a “Fortune 500” or “Forbes” magazine, which will appear there. So he said they were all rich and powerful.

Raised in a very conservative Oregon family, she studied anthropology and sociology, and went to "Sin City" on vacation. But she was tempted by sex work in Las Vegas and stayed for 10 years. She was a waitress, stripper, escort and finally director of a “Top” agency.

In her book, she explains how escort work became naturalized among young girls in Nevada. “For me and my friends, escorting made more sense and often safer than having a romance. We were young and lived in a city where one-night stands were normal after a party. We knew powerful and wealthy men who treated us well and respected what we did."

“They look for escorts instead of having lovers because it is safer and cheaper. And it didn't seem like a bad career choice to us: You make a lot of money for dating, going to expensive restaurants and wearing nice clothes,” he concludes, quite logically. It's one of the best stories in Nevada about Las Vegas and its parties.