NCAST

 Mar 12, 2010

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/opinions/view_subpage.php?pk_id=0000010354

http://www.ktvn.com/global/story.asp?s=12130046

(AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld a Nevada law that bars legal brothels that operate in some of the state's rural areas from advertising in Las Vegas, Reno and other places where prostitution is illegal.

Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto Thursday hailed the ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco, while a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada promised to appeal.

The laws had been challenged by the ACLU, a Nye County brothel called the Shady Lady Ranch and two newspapers: the High Desert Advocate and Las Vegas City Life.

Prostitution is illegal in Clark and Washoe counties -- which include Las Vegas and Reno -- and three other Nevada counties. Ten Nevada counties authorize prostitution by local ordinance.

The 9th Circuit panel reversed a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan in Nevada that two 1979 state laws prohibiting brothel advertising in counties where prostitution is illegal were overly broad and unconstitutional.

February 8, 2008 

Dennis Hof is a legal pimp in a Nevada brothel. He advertises his brothel on an HBO pseudo-documentary series with the full support and collaboration of HBO. Cathouse serves as propaganda for the sex industry while denying and concealing the harms to both prostituted women and society at large. Download excerpts of a Howard Stern  wannabe radio show where Hof and a woman he pimps are interviewed. Higihlights include recruiting for prostitution in high schools, smarmy contempt toward women in general and prostitutes in particular.

Click to download highlights in PDF format from the radio show on February 8, 2008  http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/Hof%20Transcript%20Feb%202008%20PDF.pdf

Click to listen  to the radio podcast of February 8, 2008 http://podcast.wjfk.com/wjfk2/903661.mp3

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.