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(Chuck Muth)<\/em> – While it has yet to convene its first meeting, the Nevada Legislature\u2019s \u201cBrothel Study Committee\u201d already appears to have taken on the political attributes of what Groucho Marx once described as \u201cthe art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Indeed, the committee\u2019s mandate is to study the health and safety of sex workers working in Nevada\u2019s rural legal brothels \u2013 where they are licensed, regulated by the government and work in a safe, protected environment.<\/p>\n

But the Legislature has prohibited legal brothels in Clark County.\u00a0 And not surprisingly, that\u2019s where the trouble is and where the health and safety of sex workers is most at risk.<\/p>\n

Consider this story<\/a> from Friday\u2019s Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cOnline court records show that Rontu Ary Elam, 41, is charged with sex trafficking, coercion, domestic battery by strangulation and domestic battery with substantial bodily harm. The charges stem from two October 2019 matters investigated by the Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn one, a security officer at the Wild Wild West casino on West Tropicana Avenue reported encountering a screaming woman, dressed only in her underwear, who said she was beaten by a man she identified as her \u2018pimp.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019She was punched in the mouth and thrown out of a maroon 4-door Lincoln sedan,\u2019 an arrest report for Elam states. \u2018(She) said she was hit by her pimp and thrown from the vehicle because she was not doing what she was supposed to.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman told police Elam\u2026had punched her in the face before she was thrown out of the car, causing her to hit her head and lose consciousness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In the second incident, police found the victim with her \u201cleft eye bruised and swollen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cElam struck her numerous times all over her body, placed his hands around her neck which restricted her breathing to the point of losing consciousness,\u201d police wrote.<\/p>\n

But she refused to cooperate with law enforcement because she had several prior arrests for prostitution and \u201cwas afraid Elam would kill her and that police would be unable to keep her safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Brothel Study Committee convenes, the public would be better served – as would the health and safety of sex workers in Nevada – if it would stop looking for trouble everywhere and focus on where it truly exists.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s NOT<\/u> in the state\u2019s legal brothels.<\/p>\n

Mr. 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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