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Posted on 30/06/2022 By God
A VERY APT NAME: "SIN CITY".
The United States is a country of stark contrasts. It is common to find societies that are totally permissive in sexual matters, and others that are very puritanical and repressive in carnal matters. In the first of these extremes we naturally place the famous "Mecca of gambling"... and of sex. And of course, sex work in Las Vegas has many peculiarities.
Variety and quantity
This city where "everything that happens in it stays", according to the popular saying, has a sexual offer as varied as that of the game: practically infinite.
The specialised 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 wouldn't know the difference. It lists so many sex services that it's dizzying. Prostitution, escorts and male and female escorts, sex webcams, legal brothels, red light districts, sex shops, cabarets and erotic clubs. All of them.
On paper, sex work in Las Vegas is illegal unless it takes place in licensed brothels. This is the case in 10 of the state's 16 counties. But in day-to-day reality, the picture is very different.
A striking fact is the large number of legal brothels located in smaller counties around the city. There are more than 30, some of them huge and quite famous, in towns such as Reno, Carson City and Nye County.
A circuit of brothels is formed around the capital. Almost as many visitors pass through it as between the gigantic hotel-casinos that have made it world famous.
From the room to the club, in Limousine
There is an abundance of companies that could be called "thematic inbound tourism", offering "combos" with services such as:
- Packages for stag and hen parties
- Packages for a "singles' night out" (obviously dedicated to married men)
- Birthday party packages
- Bottle service (VIP entry to discos and clubs for adults, without queuing. With a reserved table or booth and a bottle of premium champagne, plus unlimited beer for two hours. There is also access to the "pool parties" frequently organised by these clubs).
- There are packages for women, especially on the occasion of hen parties, with male stripper shows, obviously.
Limousine transfers, a "VIP" host, and a la carte dinners are always, or almost always, included, depending on the chosen venue. All in about eight hours of service, on average.
Sex Not Included
None of this includes escort services. But each visitor can make arrangements with sex workers in Las Vegas, be they female escorts or independent male sex workers, "outside" the packages. The many attractions of this "entertainment capital of the world" attract both sex workers and those who demand their services.
It is therefore a major destination for stag and hen parties, and it is common to hire dancers, strippers and other entertainers for private parties in hotel suites. Each escort sets their own price, and there is usually a fee to be paid in advance for them to go to the hotel rooms. The rest of the services are agreed there.
One scandal, two books, several truths
In 2012, the US top-level sporting scene was rocked by a scandal of major proportions. It was about a prestigious athlete who had represented the country in three Olympics and won seven medals in track and field. She confessed to working for 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 acknowledged her problems of addiction, bipolarity and mania that made her both hyper-competitive and hyper-sexualised. She recounted this in her best-selling book "Fast Girl: A life spent running from madness". She worked for the luxury escort agency "Haley Heston Primate Collection" under the pseudonym of Kelly Lundy.
Shortly afterwards, another book shed more light on these matters. It was by the man who ran the escort agency where the athlete was employed, Jami Rodson. Published "The Las Vegas Madam: the Escorts, the Clients, the Truth".
This book recounts her experiences and opinions as one of the most important "madams" in the world of sex work in Las Vegas. And she adds a sociological point of view with data that pulls back the veil on these particular places and professions in a special city.
Without naming names, he says that to find out who his clients were, you only have to look at a "Fortune 500" or "Forbes" magazine, and they will appear there. 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 a holiday. 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 escorting was naturalised among young girls in Nevada. "For my friends and me, escorting was more logical and often safer than having an affair. We were young and lived in a city where one-night stands were normal after a party. We knew powerful and rich men who treated us well and respected what we were doing".
"They look for escorts instead of having mistresses because it is safer and cheaper. And it didn't seem like a bad career choice: You make a lot of money for dating, going to expensive restaurants and wearing nice clothes", she concludes, quite logically. It's one of the best stories in Nevada about Las Vegas and its parties.