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LV Sun, Are rampant gambling, prostitution part of the image Las Vegans want? by Jon Ralston |
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Sunday, 09 September 2007 |
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After a week of talking about sex, we should not get too hot and bothered debating whether Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is a tiresome buffoon or whether prostitution will be legalized. One question is settled; the other is moot. But a discussion, maybe even an argument worth having, is what kind of community we strive to be and whether we are content to tell a tale of two cities. One is where Goodman, a Dickensian character if ever there were one, sets the tone, a place where anything that’s legal is just fine, where taste is optional, where no sin is too sinful. The other is a wholly different venue, one where parents are proud to raise their children, where culture, sophistication and erudition are prized, where family values refer to something other than mob mores. read more |
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LV Sun, Is Las Vegas really so bad? by Abigail Goldman |
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Saturday, 08 September 2007 |
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A Las Vegas phone book, flipped to page 862, features an advertisement for a "SMALL PETITE & VERY PRETTY" 18-year-old Korean girl who promises "NO HAPPY, NO PAY." The ad was propped open before a panel of speakers to serve as a symbol of all that is exploitative and degrading to women in Clark County's "culture of prostitution." It was the centerpiece of last week's news conference called by researcher Melissa Farley to release her self-published study , "Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections." read more |
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New York Times, Escape From Las Vegas by Bob Herbert |
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Saturday, 08 September 2007 |
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Amber is 19 years old and on Sunday she caught a flight out of Las Vegas’s McCarran International Airport and went home to a small town in Minnesota, not far from the Iowa border. I’m rooting for her. She’s low on funds (“I’ve got my ticket, that’s about all,” she said), and she’s at a crucial turning point in her life. read more |
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The U.K. Guardian, It's like you sign a contract to be raped by Julie Bindel |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
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'It's like you sign a contract to be raped'
Friday September 7, 2007
The Guardian
Julie Bindel reports
If you believe their PR, Nevada's legal brothels are safe, healthy - even fun - places in which to work. So why do so many prostitutes tell such horrific tales of abuse?
There is only one place in the US where brothels are legal, and that's Nevada - a state in which prostitution has been considered a necessary service industry since the days when the place was populated solely by prospecters. There are at least 20 legal brothels in business now. Not so many, you might think, but these state-sanctioned operations punch above their weight in PR terms. read more |
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KVBC-TV, Prostitution in Nevada Panel Discussion Held at UNLV by Edward Lawrence |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
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Legalizing prostitution in Nevada has now become a national debate. Thursday afternoon, former prostitutes, UNLV professors and other interested parties held panel discussions about the sex industry at the UNLV campus. read more |
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LV Review Journal, Outlaw industry, ex-prostitutes say by Lynnette Curtis |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
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"Prostitution is not work," said Farley, a psychologist who has spent years researching prostitution and its psychological effects. "Rather, it's a human rights violation." The group argued that legal prostitution can be just as harmful to women as illegal prostitution because both involve kinds of abuse and cause long-lasting psychological damage. read more
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KLAS-TV, Former Prostitutes Wage War Against Prostitution by Edward Lawrence |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
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A new non-profit group, made up of former prostitutes, is going after the legal and illegal prostitution industry in Nevada. The group, Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking, is headed up by former Nye County Commissioner Candice Trummell, who says a brothel owner tried to bribe her. Another member of the group, Kathleen Mitchell, was a prostitute for 21 years. read more |
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KVBC-TV, Vegas the epicenter of North American prostitution? |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
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Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, but a new book says Las Vegas is a magnet for human trafficking for prostitution. The book, released Wednesday, says women and children are brought here from other states, as well as, from all over the world for legal and illegal prostitution. "Women are moved for sale to buyers in Las Vegas." Dr. Melissa Farley says Las Vegas is the epicenter of North American prostitution and human trafficking. Farley spent two years researching and writing her new book: Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections. read more |
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New York Times, City as Predator by Bob Herbert |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
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There is probably no city in America where women are treated worse than in Las Vegas. The tone of systematic, institutionalized degradation is set by the mayor, Oscar Goodman, who told me in an interview that the city would reap “tremendous” benefits if a series of “magnificent brothels” could be established to cater to johns from across the country and around the world. read more |
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