{"id":797,"date":"2019-09-11T20:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T20:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadabrothelassociation.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2019-09-11T20:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T20:54:58","slug":"brothel-study-committee-should-look-at-the-real-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadabrothelassociation.com\/brothel-study-committee-should-look-at-the-real-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothel Study Committee Should Look at the REAL Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

(September 11, 2019)<\/em> \u2013 Bree Zender of KUNR inked a new article<\/a> on Tuesday related to Nevada\u2019s legal brothels and the moral crusade of a particularly creepy Reno lawyer who wants to shut them down.<\/p>\n

As Ms. Zender notes, because Las Vegas is promoted as \u201cSin City\u201d – including its iconic slogan of \u201cWhat happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas\u201d – many tourists believe prostitution is legal on the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

Sex-for-fee legal and regulated brothels only exist in a handful of rural Nevada counties \u2013 not the major urban counties of Clark (Las Vegas) and Washoe (Reno).<\/p>\n

But in an absurd leap of tortured logic, Jason \u201cCreepy\u201d Guinasso, and a handful of former sex workers are trying to make the case that the existence of legal brothels FAR from the Strip and America\u2019s Biggest Little City \u201cattracts illegal sex trafficking to the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which is like saying the existence of Walgreen\u2019s and CVS attracts illegal drug dealers.<\/p>\n

In any event, these moralist crusaders – who just can\u2019t bring themselves to live and let live – have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Nevada\u2019s legal brothels violate the federal Mann Act prohibiting interstate travel for \u201cimmoral purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the plaintiffs making this claim, Rebekah Charleston (a.k.a. Rebekah Kay Dean, a.k.a., Nicole A. Wilson), has been claiming \u2013 without proof or corroboration \u2013 that while she was working as an illegal prostitute in Dallas and Las Vegas her street pimp sent her to work in legal Nevada brothels as a form of punishment.<\/p>\n

Although no one can find any record of her EVER working in a legal brothel, here are the facts\u2026<\/p>\n

To work in a legal brothel adult women need to apply for a work card from the local sheriff and subject themselves to a rigorous FBI background check, including fingerprinting.<\/p>\n

IF \u2026 and that\u2019s a big *if* \u2026 Charleston-Dean-Wilson was ever forced by her street pimp to work in a legal brothel she would have had to lie on her work applications.\u00a0 The same way she lied to the IRS on her tax returns which resulted in time behind bars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the way: Isn\u2019t it curious that Ms. Charleston-Dean-Wilson never says specifically when she supposedly worked in a legal brothel and never names her alleged trafficker even though she\u2019s been free from him for over a decade?\u00a0 Her story just doesn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n

In any event, if she lied to the sheriff and lied to the brothel you can\u2019t blame the sheriff or the brothel.\u00a0 And that is decidedly NOT a reason to shut down Nevada\u2019s legal, licensed, regulated and SAFE brothels.<\/p>\n

As for Guinasso, Ms. Zender notes that he\u2019s \u201cattempted to ban brothels in multiple Nevada counties through ballot questions and petitions, though those attempts have failed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an effort to explain his multiple failures, Guinasso burbled, \u201cI think there\u2019s a reluctance of men\u2026 especially men who are willing to buy sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nice try.\u00a0 But here\u2019s another inconvenient truth: Guinasso\u2019s initiative to ban brothels in Lyon County last year was crushed at the ballot box, 80-20 percent.<\/p>\n

Now, truth be told, I haven\u2019t looked at the census numbers for Lyon County.\u00a0 But I\u2019m willing to bet it\u2019s not made up of 80% men and 20% women!<\/p>\n

Lance Gilman, owner of the Mustang Ranch in rural Storey County, defended Nevada\u2019s legal brothels against Guinasso\u2019s and Charleston\u2019s ridiculous claim that they \u201cencourage trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason the ladies come to legal brothels primarily is because they are safer,\u201d Gilman said. \u201cIf they are on the illegal side of the industry, in any city in the nation\u2026 and they\u2019re there everywhere\u2026 there\u2019s really no safety from the predators.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

EXACTLY.<\/p>\n

In fact, FOX Business published a story just a couple weeks ago about \u201crampant sex trafficking\u201d in Atlanta that took place in well-established hotel chain franchises, including Red Roof, La Quinta and Extended Stay.<\/p>\n

In a lawsuit recently filed against the hotel chains, four unidentified women – including two who say they were underage at the time \u2013 allege that hotel employees \u201cwere paid by traffickers to turn a blind eye\u201d to what was going on and \u201cact as lookouts for the Johns.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the FOX report\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Chamblee, a victim at the Suburban Extended Stay told an employee she had been attacked \u2018in an attempt to escape,\u2019 the suit alleges, but the worker relayed the information to the trafficker \u2013 who then assaulted the woman for doing so.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAt La Quinta Inn in Alpharetta, a victim was beaten so viciously by her John over the course of six hours that blood riddled the walls and surrounding areas of the hotel room, the suit states.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Please, Mr. Guinasso and Ms. Charleston-Dean-Wilson, explain how forcing these women to work illegally in Atlanta is safer for women than working in a legal brothel?\u00a0 And especially the fact that the legal and regulated system PREVENTS underage girls from working in them.<\/p>\n

Or, closer to home, consider this story by Michelle Rindels of the Nevada Independent last month\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cSandy Anderson, director of the Nevada State Board of Massage Therapy\u2026<\/em> believes that among the nearly 1,000 licensed establishments in the state, about 25 in the Reno area and 150-200 in the Las Vegas area may be fostering illegal prostitution or sex trafficking activity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And that comes on the heels of this report a week earlier by Rio Lacanlale of the Las Vegas Review-Journal\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI recently rescued 14 child sex trafficking victims and arrested 33 suspected traffickers in Las Vegas, the highest total in the U.S. during a nationwide sweep in July known as Operation Independence Day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Which came out just a few days after this story by Sabrina Schnur of the Las Vegas Review-Journal\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo men were arrested in July on domestic battery and sex trafficking charges in Las Vegas after punching their girlfriends, who both admitted to being prostitutes working for the men, according to police reports.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the women reported that her trafficker, Wesley Cherry, \u201chad forced her to work as a prostitute for the past five years and she wanted to get away from him.\u201d\u00a0 In retaliation, he \u201chit her in the face and broke her phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she did not work, she told police, \u2018Cherry would become violent with her by choking her and slamming her on the ground.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just easier to place the ads online and go out and perform sexual acts for money than to deal with the beatings,\u201d she told police.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note again: Brothels are NOT legal in Reno and Las Vegas.\u00a0 Yet that clearly hasn\u2019t stopped prostitution, violence against women and sex trafficking – including of minors – in those communities.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost as if \u201cprohibition\u201d doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Yet Guinasso, Charleston-Dean-Wilson and other prohibitionists continue their crusade to outlaw the handful of legal brothels in rural Nevada where the women are grown adults who freely choose to work there and are exceedingly safe.<\/p>\n

During the 2019 legislative session, the Legislature approved an interim study of the working conditions at Nevada\u2019s legal brothels.\u00a0 Fair enough.<\/p>\n

But if the brothel study committee REALLY wants to protect the health, safety and welfare of women in the commercial sex industry in Nevada, it ought to expand its examination to the working conditions for women working where brothels remain illegal.<\/p>\n

THAT\u2019S where the real problems lie.<\/p>\n

Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a limited-government grassroots advocacy organization, and government affairs counsel to the Nevada Brothel Association.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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