{"id":510,"date":"2019-02-26T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadabrothelassociation.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:37:14","slug":"why-cant-bad-examples-like-jason-guinasso-just-leave-us-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadabrothelassociation.com\/why-cant-bad-examples-like-jason-guinasso-just-leave-us-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t Bad Examples Like Jason Guinasso Just Leave Us Alone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)<\/em> \u2013 My friend Grover Norquist \u2013 president of Americans for Tax Reform and libertarian-conservative author of a book titled \u201cLeave Us Alone\u201d \u2013 is fond of saying that \u201cno one’s life is a complete waste; some simply serve as bad examples.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t talking specifically about Reno lawyer and anti-brothel zealot Jason Guinasso – but he could\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n

Guinasso, as you may have read, filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Nevada on Monday asking the court to overturn Nevada\u2019s unique law allowing legal prostitution in the state\u2019s rural counties as long as it occurs in licensed and highly-regulated brothels.<\/p>\n

At the heart of Guinasso\u2019s lawsuit is a wafer-thin argument that Nevada\u2019s legal brothels violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution and, thus, Washington, DC should come into Nevada and tell Nevada what it can and can\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

Bye-bye, Tenth Amendment.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s even worse than that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also an attack on the First Amendment; as the core of Guinasso\u2019s claim is that websites and social media accounts of legal courtesans working in legal brothels in Nevada are transmitted across state lines where prostitution is illegal and, therefore, should be shut down.<\/p>\n

Bye-bye, free speech.<\/p>\n

Guinasso claims that if a woman working in a legal Nevada brothel encourages folks who read their websites, blogs or social media posts to come and visit them, that violates the federal Mann Act which makes it illegal for anyone to persuade, induce or entice someone to travel across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.<\/p>\n

Of course, that law was established for people who are actually forcing women to engage in prostitution against their will.\u00a0 Real trafficking.\u00a0 But that\u2019s simply not the case in Nevada\u2019s legal brothels because all of the women who work there are there of their own free will.<\/p>\n

Consenting adults.<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t this guy just leave them alone?\u00a0 Live and let live.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, prostitution \u2013 including the actual trafficking of underage girls, which does not occur in legal brothels \u2013 is going on in Las Vegas and Reno, where it remains illegal, every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s rampant.\u00a0 Just try walking down the Strip at night without being accosted by a \u201cflipper\u201d handing out \u201cgirls to your room\u201d cards.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think Guinasso and his merry band of busy-body, nanny-state, self-righteous moralists would focus on THAT problem; the REAL problem.\u00a0 But no.<\/p>\n

This guy is obsessed with shutting down licensed, regulated and taxed legal brothels where the women who work there are safe and have no fear of being arrested.\u00a0 Where the clients are safe from getting a sexually transmitted disease – thanks to mandatory condom use and weekly testing – and have no fear of being arrested.<\/p>\n

And make no mistake.\u00a0 Should Guinasso succeed in shutting down Nevada\u2019s legal brothel industry, that won\u2019t make prostitution go away.<\/p>\n

All it\u2019ll do is push it back underground and into the shadows, as we were reminded just this week when Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, was charged for allegedly soliciting the services of an illegal sex worker in a Florida massage parlor.<\/p>\n

An otherwise law-abiding, upstanding 77-year-old man who lost his wife of 48 years to ovarian cancer in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Robert & Myrna Kraft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMyra and I had something that was unusual, I think,\u201d Kraft told Forbes in a 2012 interview. \u201cFor 10 months after Myra died, I cried every night. I would go out at nights to the events and parties, things I would have normally done with her, then come home to an empty house.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that gets to the heart of this business that most people don\u2019t realize.\u00a0 Many of the men who visit Nevada\u2019s legal brothels are elderly widowers who aren\u2019t gonna be tripping the light fantastic in a Las Vegas nightclub hoping to \u201cget lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many men who visit Nevada\u2019s legal brothels it\u2019s not so much about the sex as it is enjoying the companionship of a consenting adult woman which they can no longer enjoy with their spouse or significant other.<\/p>\n

And Jason Guinasso wants to criminalize that?\u00a0 Why can\u2019t he just leave everyone else alone?<\/p>\n

Or, at the very least, try to be a little intellectually honest.<\/p>\n

When you read Guinasso\u2019s lawsuit you\u2019ll find it littered with statistics, figures and opinions related to prostitution in Nevada without making a distinction between prostitution that goes on illegally in motel rooms, massage parlors, strip clubs and back alleys and that which occurs legally in licensed, regulated and taxed brothels.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to have an open, honest debate with people like Guinasso who intentionally try to mislead the public.<\/p>\n

Women who voluntarily of their own free will choose \u2013 \u201ca woman\u2019s right to choose\u201d \u2013 to work in a legal Nevada brothel simply aren\u2019t being \u201ctrafficked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single worker at the Mustang Ranch is required to undergo an FBI fingerprint and criminal database background check every single year,\u201d Storey County Commissioner Lance Gilman, who also owns the Mustang Ranch, said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn over 4,000 work card applications filed over the last 20 years by working professionals and employees at the Mustang, not one has turned up to be a victim of trafficking.\u00a0 Not one.\u201d<\/p>\n

For people like Guinasso to compare these two totally different circumstances as if they were the same borders on libelous.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a desperate act by Guinasso,\u201d Mr. Gilman continued.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s trying to do an end run on the people of Nevada.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it\u2019s just another political stunt by this man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed.\u00a0 But let it not be said his life is a complete waste.\u00a0 Jason Guinasso expertly fills the role of bad example.\u00a0 Why can\u2019t he just leave the rest of us alone?<\/p>\n

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a limited-government grassroots advocacy organization, and government affairs counsel to the Nevada Brothel Association<\/em><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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