If these people are having problems paying the bills maybe being a little more tight with our money could turn the trick so to speakk.........
Jun. 05, 2009
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EDITORIAL: Working men
Times are tough all over -- even for the world's oldest profession.
George Flint, lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Association, notes that the state's legal whorehouses have seen business drop by about 50 percent since the recession began. "Business is so bad right now,"
he said. "I think brothels would do anything to survive."
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Indeed, it's gotten to the point that Bobbi Davis, owner of the Shady Lady Ranch in Esmeralda County, wants to add men to the menu. "We've had requests for men in the past, and there's nothing else like this out there," she told The AP this week.
Ms. Davis admits she hasn't tried lowering her prices to attract new customers -- currently men pay $500 for two hours and $800 for three -- and that current state health regulations and licensing requirements demanding that legal prostitutes undergo regular cervix exams may be difficult to apply to male gigolos.
Ms. Davis isn't the first to float such an idea -- although previous efforts have met with little success. A few years back, for instance, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss promised to open "Heidi's Stud Farm" near Pahrump, but the endeavor never came to fruition.
And it may be more than the sour economy that will doom Ms. Davis's effort. There is, after all, the matter of biology.
"Seducing a woman and seducing a man in a brothel environment are different things completely," notes Mr. Flint. "One can take a few minutes, the other can take hours. It wouldn't make money."
And we'll let that succinct analysis stand as the last word.
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