The Las Vegas Courtesan

So, typically during the summer time it gets a little slower around town. Families come here for their vacations, the conventions are over, and everyone kind of moves a little slower like your shoes have tar on the bottom of them from the heat of the desert. I’m used to this season after working for several summers now, but this one just baffles me. Since the 4th of July it has gotten slow, and when I say slow I mean like the previous years usual slow months (typically September and December).  I am used to quite a few calls still coming in during the summer but people just aren’t big spenders…. This year? Not many calls at all and the one’s I am getting seem like every excuse in the book is used to not actually follow through with entertainment.

So what happens when it gets slow? Girls get bored and start making risky moves by soliciting in casinos they normally would have been afraid of just because everything else isn’t working out. Who else gets bored? Cops. In recent weeks I have hear a couple of insane stories and for once they weren’t just from dancers. They were from a valet guy at a very prominent high end Strip hotel.  This boredom of the men in black has now turned to the seriously innocent casino workers who struggle to keep their jobs every day and were trying to make a little extra tip money. Supposedly some girls drive up to valet attendants at Strip hotels and ask the valet guys for heads up if “the coast is clear” which to me is kind of silly because that’s really not trustworthy information in my opinion. Either way the word spread to the authorities and they had one of their female officers driving through to the valet asking if the “coast is clear” and if the valet gave the girl any information about a bust going on or not, the attendant was arrested. Right there at his job in front of God and the recording devices. Of course the employee would be fired and probably could never get a job at another Strip hotel again. What would a charge for that be? Aiding and abetting supposedly though it makes no sense because the employee would have no idea for sure what was going on inside of the casino pertaining to a bust or not. I hope they got a good lawyer and even so, that arrest alone would screw up their life. This story made me so mad when I heard it…

I just don’t get how these types of law enforcements are really doing anything for the general safety of the public. It’s a guy working the valet at a casino, not dealing drugs, not stealing and not kidnapping kids. So what is the big deal?

I know I’m a little behind on this but I came across it the other day and somehow wasn’t surprised after the idiot in New England murdered a girl who’s ad was posted on Craigslist. Ever since the District Attorneys for the 40 some-odd states bent Craigslist over their knee to comply with tracking ads, I wasn’t surprised it came down to this. Of course they are just renaming the section but now they will manually screen the posts.

Obviously this is a bad move for Craigslist and a bad move for Internet free speech, or net neutrality. The company has now put themselves into a position that they will be taking some sort of liability by actually posting the ads manually, even though they have no control to the act the person ends up doing after getting a customer through the site. I am all for free speech on the Internet and the whole guidelines that the 1996 Federal Communications Act helped create by protecting the businesses that had web sites run by user generated content, but this is taking a step back and bending for the government so that they have more control. Prostitution is going to happen, no matter how hard you try to stop it. I think Craigslist made some of the police departments around the country kind of lazy because to them, it was like shooting fish in a barrel!

I, personally, used to post ads on Craigslist years ago and stopped when they first started cracking down (especially after I got busted myself) and haven’t really been back since. To me I did it because I had run out of all other options and it was slow around town and walking through casinos and sitting at bars made me really nervous. I just don’t see what the big deal was on there. Men would call up immediately on the phone as soon as it was posted (mostly locals) and were trying to see how far their $150 would go, but then would act extremely insulted when I said that would be okay for a starting point. It rarely got me decent $ and all of the clients had a holier-than-thou attitude. I like it when people treat me on the same level, not like they are so far above me… so I got annoyed quick and after going to jail for it, I stopped.

The funny thing is I found out about this from my new favorite website, http://www.textsfromlastnight.com on a post over here . If you have a spare few hours, the site is hilarious.

So I left a comment on an old article in my blog about how there was a new operation that the vice squad had come up with to get the top 50 offenders behind bars and actually convict them to send some sort of message to the rest of the working girls. As I said in the comment, the number of girls that were in jail the same time I was back in December had already been in there at least 10 times that month. They talked of stealing and really only hurt the business instead of making it more respectable for the rest of us. So all during the month of February vice thought it would be a good idea to make a top 50 list of the biggest offenders and crack down. The girls they showed in the original Review-Journal article were all presented as prostitutes, but if you scroll down the list of girls and their charges only 3 of them have actual charges for prostitution. The rest of them are simply trespassing charges. I would be really mad if my face appeared on a news site accusing me of being something I wasn’t arrested for.

So the other day I open up my newspaper to find this article on the front page saying out of the 100 or so arrests during Operation VETO they got one conviction! Wow. The funny thing is they say she was “convicted” but really, she wasn’t. The jail sentence was suspended and she was given a $1,000 fine and banned from the Strip for 6 months or get 6 months jail if she is caught again. This is nothing new and the Strip restrictions have been going on for years. I don’t understand why this is any different. The girl is an idiot to have been arrested over 100 times in the past three years, but mostly only for trespassing? Makes no sense how they are saying this girl is being used as an example. How about the Vice squad actually go get those juvenile prostitutes being held against their will, or the people actually committing real crimes? After all of the trouble these cases clog up the court system, nothing will ever teach girls a lesson, so why bother? Get the real criminals… or actually help the underage girls forced into the profession. This 27 year old girl is only over taxing our already suffering court system in Clark County.

People that read my blog seem to be really interested about the whole legal Nevada brothels thing so I decided to spend some time collecting all the current information for brothels that are open in Nevada right now and making it into a brothels directory on my site so people can use it as a reference of sorts. I even put everything into a Nevada state-wide Google Map so you can get a frame of reference for where they all are. I hope everyone finds this helpful!

Also, if you know of any that are currently open and I have somehow missed them in my research, please contact me and let me know.  I want to keep it as accurate and up to date as I can.