NCAST

By Matt Joyce

Associated Press writer

Saturday, April 19, 2008 

by Christopher Lawrence

Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 04, 2008

Jun 18, 2008

by Scott McCabe, The Examiner 

WASHINGTON - A woman who lured a 14-year-old North Virginia girl into her hotel room with promises of a glamorous modeling career was trying to recruit the teen into a life of prostitution in Las Vegas, according to FBI officials.

by  Suki Falconberg, Ph.D.

Sin City. Skin City. Las Vegas is flesh city. Billboards everywhere display tempting bodies. At one posh nightclub, the Tao in the Venetian, near-naked girls greet you in perfumed bathwater, roses floating on its surface. Girls shadow dance behind screens at Caesars Palace. The Palms has its Playboy Club. A Penthouse Pet Club has just opened. The city is the haunt of the Implant Babe, Pamela Anderson, and of Carmen Electra, and the cavorting Pussycat Dolls. Rows of topless showgirls in big-stage extravaganzas have been a staple for decades, and the city is famous for its strip clubs—like Crazy Horse and Cheetah´s. Newer clubs are springing up all the time. Topless, and bottomless, venues abound and the city flaunts the beauty of the female body—glossy, shining, naked, or near-naked—images of women as sensually pleasing and arousing objects are everywhere.

NCAST does not think that legalization of prostitution is a solution to the violence in it.  We support a Swedish model law that acknowledges the intrinsic violence of prostituiton and seeks to prevent it by arresting johns and pimps while at the same time offering exit services to women still in it.

By Rosie Goldsmith
BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents

April 17, 2008 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7350146.stm

Nevada is the only state in the US that allows legal prostitution, but in its largest city, Las Vegas, prostitution is illegal. When the mayor suggested changing the law, it sparked a huge debate.

Mayor Oscar Goodman grabs the headlines whatever he says or does - and he relishes it. He is proud of Las Vegas' image as "Sin City" and happily calls it "an adult playground".

Politics and Misogyny

By BOB HERBERT
New York Times January 15, 2008

With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s win in New Hampshire, gender issues are suddenly in the news. Where has everybody been?

If there was ever a story that deserved more coverage by the news media, it’s the dark persistence of misogyny in America. Sexism in its myriad destructive forms permeates nearly every aspect of American life. For many men, it’s the true national pastime, much bigger than baseball or football.

BBC Outlook radio program on the BBC World Service interview with Melissa Farley, Ph.D. about prostitution and trafficking in Nevada.

Click the link to hear the interview (quicktime format) 

http://www.nevadacoalition.org/media/BBC_Interview.mov

Mark Waite,  Pahrump Valley Yimes

BEATTY --There will be one less set of blinking red lights to greet motorists on Highway 95.

Angel's Ladies Brothel, which billed itself as the "friendliest brothel in Nevada," closed at the end of September. The new owner doesn't have plans to reopen it as a brothel, said Assistant Sheriff Johanna Cody.

SPARKS, Nev. - While the men watch from plushly upholstered sofas, a dozen women make their entrances into the upscale parlor. One by one, they introduce themselves in practiced, sultry voices, then line up against a strategically mirrored wall.

Good evening, gentlemen," says a stunning blond in revealing lingerie. "I'm J.R. Carrington."

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