The Las Vegas Courtesan

I am finally home free of my legal battles and so happy for it. I can breathe a huge sigh of relief now, and as my lawyer put it, “now you can start all over again!” It’s sad but true, since busts are so prevalent. The only thing that is left now is getting my records sealed so that I have no public record. After that is taken care of then I can truly be relieved.

So last night I went to a “back-up” call to the Flamingo for a service around 4am. Just to explain the terminology, a “back-up” call refers to a call for a service where one girl or girls picked up the fee but they couldn’t work anything out with the customer. Sometimes the girl acts rude, won’t negotiate her pricing, or he swears after the first girl leaves that he really has money and please send him someone else. Almost all phone girls want to send a back-up girl to try the customer a second time. Their pay solely depends on what the girls tip, so why not? It gives them another try on making a tip instead of it being a “base” call (where only a fee is collected and no one else makes money but the company). Anyways, the phone girl gives me the room number and informs me that it is a backup call and the first girls were rude but thinks I can make it work.

I know by the room numbers which of the hotel’s three elevators I need to take in order to bypass a long winding walk down the hallways upstairs. I walk from the garage past the lobby towards the casino floor. Out of the corner of my eye I see a black girl that looked like a working girl, wandering around the lobby. I walked on across the casino floor towards my elevator when this same girl caught up with me somehow saying, “Hey.. hey there.. excuse me.. oh those are nice shoes.” I slowed down and turned around and looked at her in the face. My stomach sunk as I immediately recognized her under a bad wig: it was the girl who was a part of vice during the bust I was in around Christmas time. When I turned to face her she started asking me, “Do you want to do doubles?” Doubles? What kind of question is that to ask a random girl anyway even if you know she is a prostitute? I said, “Doubles? Huh? What are you talking about?”

“Yea, do doubles together”, she replied.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about”, I said and tried to have an offended look on my face.

“Oh, are you working?” she asked.

“Working? What? I’m going to my room,” I replied or something along those lines.

She apologized a couple of times and I hurried towards the elevator and she walked off the other direction. Whew… I got up to the room safely. When I walked in I started freaking out in my mind. Not because of the two guys I had to deal with to make money, but the thought of having to actually get out of the hotel. I panicked and couldn’t concentrate on working anything out with the customers. I don’t think I could have worked anything out even if I wasn’t in my frightened state. I had bad pictures going through my head of vice officers waiting for me at the bottom of all of the elevators because they figured out who I was and I wasn’t supposed to be in any Harrah’s-owned casinos. I left the call and walked all the way down the winding hallways to the elevator closet to the garage and went down to the ground level. Coast was clear and I walked as fast as I could to my car. I think my heart was about to flop out.

Kind of a long story but glad it all ended well. I am looking forward to a busy weekend since it’s the Super Bowl this Sunday and everyone has to go to Vegas to bet on the game!

I already talked about my latest case and it being resolved but the first case I am still dealing with but worked something out with the courts. One of the things a lot of first time offenders in Las Vegas have to do is take a class that is an AIDS/STD awareness course. I am sure a lot of states offer this but it sure is a pointless thing to do.

I feel like I am taking a class that was designed for students to take when they are in junior high and have low self esteem or need some sort of motivational speaker to talk to them. Yes, they talk about STD’s and all but the rest of it is talking about principals that are just elementary and insulting to your intelligence pertaining to why you are a prostitute. The more I get into it, the more it makes steam come out of my ears. I personally think that every girl in the sex industry should take a class that clearly defines safe sex practices and identifying diseases. Heck I think every person period should take a class learning that. There is stuff they don’t teach you in high school that everyone should know like never ever use any petroleum-based product with a condom (lotions, Vaseline, etc). A lot of people don’t know that and it’s a very important thing.

This “course” is basically saying your parents didn’t teach you guidance through cooperation and just basically told you “do this don’t do that”. The other thing that got me peeved is how this is all about power and control and that I am forcing bad behaviors on others like they are a victim. I don’t recall taking the sex offenders course. I think that mentality is really backwards. The other thing is that I must believe that I am fearful of anyone else having control and must have all of the power to myself. I just don’t get what this class is about. It’s like a whole bunch of different principals rolled into one that don’t really pertain to the fact that I was arrested for solicitation. Oh and did I mention how much the class is? $150. It could have been worse though because the alcohol and drug addiction class is $305 .. I think the anger management one costs the same. The cost of those two classes alone deterred me from ever getting mad or drinking and driving. I think they should lower the cost of the anger management class because that price would make anyone throw their computer out of the window in a fit of rage. Anyway I am done venting… back to my studies.

So what do you want first, the good or bad news? Well I will tell you the good news first just because the bad news really isn’t all that bad and the good news is really awesome to me. It made my week.

Good news: The legal matters I was talking about recently? I went by my lawyer’s office on Thursday to handle some payment stuff for my first case (the one I wrote about recently was the second time I had been arrested and charged for solicitation). Earlier that day his assistant went in for me to handle the pretrial of the second case. Apparently I got so extremely lucky and got a D.A. who was fresh out of law school and when he was told that my first case was being dismissed, he just dropped the second case he was supposed to handle. I don’t understand why he really did this except maybe he didn’t want to bother with my case because I have been capable of getting previous charges dismissed. Whatever the case is I am so relieved and happy for this. I will go into more details about this case now that it is dropped in a future blog. All I know is even if this case went through to the courts, there was no way it would have stuck. They just saved their time by dropping it.

Bad news: Well like I said it really isn’t that bad. It is just that CES this year was pretty disappointing compared to the rumors I have heard over the years from call girls about how great it was. I did have some pretty decent and easy calls but they were pretty evenly distributed over the course of the convention. There wasn’t one night that was really great to write home about. Then again, if you’re in the sex industry or even a stripper, we all know how girls like to brag about how great this or that was last year or “back in those days”. I’m not going to lie, but I have done the same thing too. Anyway I just got a call from a service. Lets cross our fingers!

So I am back! Took a little leave of absence.. some of it against my will and some time to travel back to my home state to see family and friends for the holidays. Came back to Las Vegas in time to ring in the New Year and now back to working in 2007. I ended up not working the night of New Years Eve, but if you have been to Vegas for New Years you know its impossible to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. In fact, if you get anywhere it will probably be on foot. That is definitely not my favorite mode of transportation.

My unfortunate “vacation” against my will before the holidays was spent in the fine facility of the Clark County Detention center. I won’t go into too specific details (maybe after the case is over) but it was another one of the Vice squads immature ways to lure people to arrest them for the most trite reasons. It just makes me furious how in “Sin City” how prostitution is illegal but only an hour drive away in Nye County it is perfectly legal. I mean the city’s motto is “What happens here stays here” but yet there is a movement to take the sin out of Sin City. For example the new no smoking ban (ok I like that law), the ridiculously strict rules of lap dances, and some other issues that have been in legislature lately in the Las Vegas area. I understand arrests from officers when prostitutes are affecting the look of the city. For example, trashy looking girls walking up and down West Tropicana, hassling people on the Strip, or making a scene by picking up guys at hotel bars. What I don’t understand is when they arrest people like me. I advertise online or go through an agency, I show up to a hotel only to go directly upstairs, and then provide whatever services privately in the room. I don’t loiter and I usually leave immediately. I don’t dress flashy and don’t attract attention by what I wear.

So what are they even trying to accomplish? Cleaning up the Internet? Hardly. Trying to save me from a life they disapprove of? I am sure they feel like they are “saving” me. I know that they think that I am a horribly disgusting, un-clean girl when I am in fact the polar opposite. When I was going to be released out of jail, the first time I was arrested, an officer said to me and the 12 other girls who had been arrested at the same time, “I don’t understand why they bother with you girls by arresting so many of you. It messes us up down at the jail since they bring so many in at once… and frankly, all you are doing is making the tourists happy and giving them what they want”.

Too bad there aren’t more of those kinds of people in politics. I know our mayor wanted a few years ago some sort of red light district downtown but I know Oscar Goodman would have hell trying to get that passed. I would actually like to be more of an activist on the subject of prostitution in politics. I would love suggestions on where to find such web sites.

Last but not least happy New Year everyone!