I repeat, you are an ignorant, loud mouthed twit with delusions of self importance. You know NOTHING of economics and how markets work. Before I put your worthless, chattering self back on ignore, I'll leave you with something that's more your style and commensurate with your limited level of comprehension. If you're as well connected as you claim to be, maybe you can get Heidi to comp you with a freebie..
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Sex and the high desert
Bordello may offer male prostitutes
By HENRY BREAN
REVIEW-JOURNAL
At his legal brothel in the empty Nye County desert, 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Joe Richards hopes to make Nevada history with a new item on the menu: men.
Within the next month, Richards has pledged to add male prostitutes to his stable of women at the Cherry Patch Ranch in Crystal, a tiny desert outpost just off state Route 160 north of Pahrump.
He even has someone in mind to help run the new operation: former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss.
According to Richards, Fleiss has been hired as a "hostess/madam."
She certainly has the resume for it. In the 1990s, Fleiss ran a high-priced ring of call girls to the stars. Then she became more famous than some of her clients by getting busted, tried and sent to prison for almost two years.
Fleiss couldn't be happier about her new job.
"I am opening up a stud farm. I am going to have the sexiest men on earth. Women are going to love it," she told The Associated Press on Wednesday from her Hollywood home.
Richards' announcement came this week in a letter to the Nye County Commission that reads more like a notice than a request.
"I estimate I will be offering this service within the next 20 to 30 days," he wrote. "It will be within this time frame that the sheriff's office will be seeing sex worker applications from male as well as female prostitutes.
"I am receiving more and more requests for this service," he continued. "There will be no male/male activity."
The letter was distributed Wednesday morning to the five-member commission, which regulates legal brothels in its capacity as the county's liquor and licensing board.
Commissioner Joni Eastley declined to predict whether the letter would prompt a hearing before the licensing board.
"We only just saw it," she said. "It's too soon to comment."
When contacted Wednesday, Richards said the letter was "all true," but he declined to comment further.
He promised that he -- and possibly Fleiss -- would have a lot more to say about his plans later.
That's exactly what brothel industry lobbyist George Flint is afraid of.
"I will tell you, I'm not a fan of Heidi Fleiss," said Flint, who heads the Nevada Brothel Owners Association. "We have to kind of tread softly, and I'm not sure if Heidi's capable of learning to tread lightly."
Fleiss would be a draw, he said, but she could also be a liability.
"My biggest problem with Heidi is she talks too much," Flint said. "You can't turn this business into a promotional machine, like Dennis Hof has with the Moonlight Bunny Ranch, and expect to survive."
As for Richards' larger plan to open a brothel for women, Flint is ambivalent.
"It concerns me because I'm not sure Nevadans are ready for it. On the other hand, my reaction is: Why not?" he said.
About two dozen legal bordellos exist statewide, and none of them employs male prostitutes.
Richards owns two of the six licensed brothels in Nye County, and he holds a license for a third that is essentially closed, Flint said.
For years, the county has blocked Richards' efforts to open a brothel at the southern edge of Pahrump, where two of the state's largest bordellos -- Sheri's Ranch and the Chicken Ranch -- operate just outside the town limits.
More recently, Richards has ruffled some feathers in Pahrump with an all-nude strip club he opened on the town's main street and the racy billboards he has put up for the club and his brothels.
Flint said Richards' latest plan might face legal hurdles.
State law does not specifically prohibit men from working as licensed prostitutes. However, Nevada Administrative Code uses the pronoun "her" when referring to prostitutes and requires them to submit weekly cervical specimens to check for sexually transmitted diseases.
"And there are some things in the Nye County brothel ordinance that may have to be amended for Joe to be able to do this," Flint said.
When it comes to the Fleiss, for example, the county ordinance seems unequivocal. It states that "no person shall be employed by the licensee in connection with the licensed operation who has ever been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude."
Asked how county officials might respond to Richards' plans, Flint said, "I'm as curious as you are."
Then there is the more fundamental question: If Richards builds it, will they come?
Adam Gentile produces "Men (The Show)" at Sapphire Gentleman's Club and owns the Male Entertainment Network, which books male strippers for bachelorette parties and other events.
He thinks that there might be a market for a brothel catering to women, but that it could be a tough sell.
"Women, just as much as men, have sexual desires. They think about it just as much, and they have the same desires as we do," Gentile said. "On the flip side, it's a very different market because women are used to men paying for everything."
Penny Levin, spokeswoman for the Thunder From Down Under all-male revue, agreed -- sort of.
"I think the majority of women feel they don't have to pay for it," she said. "They have no trouble finding someone to spend the night with."
Levin hastily added that Thunder From Down Under is "a fun show that has nothing to do with an actual sexual experience."
She then said she thinks some of the women who come to the show also might be drawn to the brothel, but probably not enough to make the business a success.
Gentile said that if Richards goes through with his plans, he would not be surprised if he lost a few of his strippers to the new brothel.
After all, he said, some of the men who work for him already make money moonlighting in adult videos.
"Getting paid to have sex with women? I can think of worse jobs than that," he said. |
