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  Nevada
Nevada has borders with Oregon and Idaho to the north, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east.
Nevada is a land of rugged, snow-capped mountains, grassy valleys and sandy deserts.
As of the 2000 census, the population of Nevada is 1,711,263.
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 Prostitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Prostitution is rejected by most religions as being improper or sinful, and prostitutes are considered to be shameful or individuals of low standing in most societies; their customers are typically tolerated to a greater degree.
Prostitutes (particularly those engaging in street prostitution) are also sometimes the targets of serial killers who see themselves as justified in killing prostitutes by the religious and social stigma associated with prostitution.
Prostitution was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915 largely due to the influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union which was influential in the banning of drug use and was a major force in the prohibition of alcohol.
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 The Case for Legalized Prostitution
Prostitution may be the world's oldest profession, and laws prohibiting prostitution may well be the oldest example of government regulation and government (sex) discrimination.
In Newark, New Jersey, the estimate is that close to 60% of all prostitutes carry the AIDS virus.
Currently, since prostitution is illegal outside of Nevada, most prostitutes are in a "no-man's-land" as far as physical protection is concerned.
www.fff.org /freedom/1293e.asp   (761 words)

  
 Legalize Prostitution
By forcing prostitution out of places where it would more naturally be found, such as in brothels or near motels, the police drive that activity into the streets of neighborhoods where it otherwise would not exist.
Prostitutes whose jobs involve working at night and getting into cars with complete strangers can be, and often have been, easy pickings for serial killers and other sociopaths.
So prostitutes are a sexual outlet for me." Another man reported that he did the same for a number of years due to being "anorexic and very reclusive.
www.humanismbyjoe.com /prostitution.htm   (1530 words)

  
 Roblog » Prostitution
Prostitution outside of this regulation is a misdemeanour—the same level of illegality as all prostitution is in most other states.
Prostitutes are also frequently in danger of attacks by customers; the homicide rate for female prostitutes in the US is 204 per 100,000, over 50 times the rate of the most dangerous legal job for women, working in a liquor store6.
Many people object to state regulation of prostitution because of the cost involved; however, in a system in which prostitution was legalised, prostitutes would pay income tax on their earnings and thus contribute, in whole or in part, to the cost of state regulation.
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 Prostitution information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
At one end of the legal spectrum, prostitution carries the death penalty in some Muslim countries; at the other end, prostitutes are tax-paying and unionised professionals in the Netherlands and brothels are legal and advertising businesses there (however, prostitutes must be at least 18 and the age of consent is 16 in other contexts).
Prostitutes (particularly those engaging in street prostitution) are also sometimes the targets of serial killers, who may consider them easy targets, or use the religious and social stigma associated with prostitutes as justification for their murder.
Prostitution is often described as "the world's oldest profession." Prostitution (at least in the modern sense) cannot have emerged before the emergence of money, which can only have taken place after the emergence of several trades, and it has been claimed that midwifery, or perhaps gardening, are really the world's oldest professions.
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 revolution: nevada prostitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In particular, in the United States, prostitution is legal in certain counties of Nevada.
State law forbids counties with high populations from legalizing brothels, so prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City and Lake Tahoe.
Prostitutes are required to use condoms for all types of intercourse, and must undergo regular medical checkups.
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 prostitution issues
Arresting prostitutes as a means of combating prostitution usually results in an increase in the indebtedness of women to pimps, as well as in the amount of sex they must have to make up for lost income.
The costs of legalized prostitution such as rent to the brothel owner, medical examinations, and any registration fees are paid by the women involved in prostitution, thereby increasing the number of sexual encounters they must have in order to make a profit.
Even then, the demand for illegal prostitutes in the form of minors or kidnapped foreigners would continue to be strong, as male 'buyers' often have a desire for the 'exotic'.
www.menstuff.org /issues/byissue/prostitution.html   (1958 words)

  
 Nevada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The northern and portions of Nevada are mostly within the Great Basin Desert while portions of the southern are within the Mojave Desert.
Nevada is the only state of the with legal prostitution : brothel prostitution is legal in most of Nevada see prostitution in Nevada.
As of the 2000 census the population of Nevada is 711 263.
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 Prostitution: Should It Be Legal?
Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the world, however, many states in the U.S. outlaw it.
Street prostitutes are normally controlled by a pimp, who usually keeps the prostitute dependent on drugs so that he or she can control the amount of money that the prostitute makes.
When a prostitute is picked up by the police, she or he usually spends a night in jail, goes to court, pays a fine, serves a short time in jail and/or completes community service.
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 Nevada City Live -  History, Prostitution
Women who were not prostitutes were so rare in the goldfields that the Forty-niners stood for hours just to gaze upon one.
Because she was a known prostitute, it was part of the procedure to have a doctor examine her and test her for diseases.
For almost 100 years prostitution flourished openly in Nevada City, now it is hidden from the public eye.
www.nevadacitylive.com /history-prostitution.htm   (536 words)

  
 Las Vegas, Nevada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The city's official population estimate as of July 1, 2002 is 514,640.
The name "Las Vegas" is often also applied to the unincorporated areas of Clark County that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rebels (Runnin' Rebels is used only by the men's basketball program) host Mountain West Conference events on the UNLV campus and eight miles east, at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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 Georgetown Law - Published Articles (GLH)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Eventually, it was a part of Nevada's culture that would put the state on the map as the first and only state of the Union with legalized prostitution.
This is on top of all other vices Nevada had been accused of fostering, and the way that prostitution was dealt with was in large part due to the nation's reaction to divorce, gambling, and organized crime.
COYOTE argues from the prostitution as work perspective, emphasizing that not all prostitution is forced and that women choose prostitution as a form of work; therefore, it should be recognized as a legitimate profession.
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 Prostitution and Sexual Autonomy:
Prostitution is North American culture’s archetypal sexual interaction, within which sex, money, and power are interwoven:  the willing, economically dependent, always available, sexually seductive and irresistible woman serves the needs of the virile, strong, aggressive male with an irrepressible sex drive who can buy the means for satisfying his desires.
Although Pateman’s emphasis on the symbolic importance of the actual sex acts in prostitution is questionable, the gist of her point is both plausible and widely shared by the radical feminists.
A prostitute may be required to adhere to the same standards of non-discrimination regarding race, age, physical appearance, gender, religion or ideology that other private enterprises in the business of accommodating the public must adhere to.
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 Prostitution In Nevada
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 The Body: Rick Sowadsky M.S.P.H., C.D.S, Answers to Safe Sex Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Also, some countries may tolerate prostitution, but it may not be legal, and the prostitutes may not be tested at all.
In Nevada, prostitution is only legal in licensed brothels, and only in certain rural counties.
Nevada law also requires that latex condoms must be used during all sexual activity.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Alexa Albert - Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women at Epinions.com
She had worked previously with street prostitutes in New York City and had seen first hand the devastating results of the unregulated sex trade.
She was a little uncomfortable with the idea at first, but she realized that she would get a better understanding of the brothel and the women who worked there if she was actually on the premises.
She was specifically interested in condom usage among the prostitutes, and at first many of the women were hostile to her questioning.
www.epinions.com /content_44239720068   (1010 words)

  
 The Shorthorn Online | News | Sex and the State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The sex industry in Nevada, the only state with legalized prostitution, was the subject of the final Women’s History Month lecture, “Feminism and the State of Sex: Lessons from Nevada’s Prostitution Industry,” conducted by Kathryn Hausbeck, associate professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the Central Library on Wednesday.
On one hand, most prostitutes assume the role simply as a job, she said, and are proud to be independent contractors.
She also showed images of a prostitute’s room where pictures of the woman’s children hung on the wall and a dog slept on the floor.
www.theshorthorn.com /archive/2004/spring/04-apr-01/n040104-05.html   (401 words)

  
 Book Review
Anne Butler, an historian, focuses her work on prostitution in the post-Civil War American West, describing its shape and character, defining its relationship to the larger society, and dispelling many of the popular myths that surround the colorful and controversial occupation.
We learn that prostitutes were generally young, poor, and migratory, and plied their trade in both urban and rural areas.
Economic rewards were marginal as pimps and madams exacted their fees, and public officials extorted a portion of the prostitutes' earnings by systematically hauling them into the local courts while, at the same time, encouraging the presence of prostitution in their communities.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/86summer/br-daughters.htm   (615 words)

  
 Hollywood Madam to Open Nevada 'Stud Farm'
Fleiss said on Thursday she has struck a deal with a licensed brothel owner in Nevada, where prostitution is legal, to turn one of his three establishments, the Cherry Patch, into a glitzy new bordello that she will rename Heidi Fleiss' Stud Farm.
Fleiss said she is aiming for an initial stable of about 20 male prostitutes who would charge $250 an hour - far less, she said, then the fees paid by clients of the call-girl ring she ran a decade ago.
Nevada state law allows counties to deny a brothel license to convicted felons, although Fleiss said she knows of several bordello owners with criminal records.
www.banderasnews.com /0511/nw-studfarm.htm   (663 words)

  
 AlterNet: Homeland Prostitution Policy
Although prostitutes in every country face discrimination, the actual exchange of money for sex is not a crime in most democracies.
Prostitutes are often subjects of HIV studies but too much of this research has been astonishingly careless and inhumane.
America's prostitution policies are so backward in comparison to those of most advanced countries -- and a number of developing ones, too -- that we provoke sarcastic comparisons with Islamic theocracies.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=15306   (1050 words)

  
 Nevada prostitution lobbyist faithful to cause (printable version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It might seem surprising that the 69-year-old Flint, mouthpiece of Nevada's legal prostitution industry for the past 20 years, is well-versed in the Bible.
State law permits legal prostitution with county commission approval in rural counties.
Compared with the 300 legal prostitutes in all of Nevada, Flint estimates 10,000 illegal hookers work Las Vegas on most weekends.
www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=60509   (719 words)

  
 From Bordello to Ballot Box   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
She didn't find much fortune immediately, but she married, raised a family, ran for Congress as a Democrat in 1996 and for lieutenant governor of Nevada as a Republican in '98, and pursued a career in legal prostitution.
This is the autobiography of Jessi Winchester, who made worldwide headlines in the mid-1990s as a legal prostitute who competed in the Mrs.
Her inspirational journey documents the strength of the human spirit in refusing to be held back by society's labels and limitations, and one woman's determination to help others and succeed -- against all odds.
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 University of Nevada Press | Book Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Uncovering Nevada’s Past is a vital, enlightening record of Nevada’s history—in the words of the people who lived and made it—that makes for lively and engaging reading.
He was born and reared in Reno, Nevada and received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1987 and 1990, respectively.
Uncovering Nevada's Past: A Primary Source History of the Silver State was a joint project with Ron James of the State Department of Historic Preservation.
www.nvbooks.nevada.edu /books.asp?ID=2218   (520 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Fundraising cheerleaders fall under prostitution law?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether high school cheerleaders trying to flag down motorists for a car wash might run afoul of a broadly written ordinance targeting pushy Las Vegas-area prostitutes.
Burke, in legal briefs filed in advance of Wednesday's hearing, said a woman tourist "who happens to have the bad taste to dress in flashy, cheap and somewhat revealing clothing" might mistakenly wave to an undercover officer thinking he's a friend, and be arrested.
The ordinance is too vague and arbitrary and encourages arbitrary enforcement by police, Burke said, adding that it anticipates overt activity that has not yet occurred, such as soliciting or actual prostitution — which are prohibited under separate ordinances.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-10-20-nevada-prostitution_x.htm   (469 words)

  
 The world's top las vegas nevada websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Las Vegas is sometimes called "Sin City" due to the popularity of legalized gambling, availability of alcoholic beverages any time of the day and night, various forms and degrees of adult entertainment, and legalized prostitution in nearby counties (Nevada law prohibits prostitution in counties which have large populations; see Prostitution in Nevada).
As a matter of fact, the famous Las Vegas Strip is not in the city limits; most of it is in Paradise, Nevada and is governed municipally by the Clark County commission.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rebels (Runnin' Rebels is used only by the basketball program) host Mountain West Conference events on the UNLV campus and eight miles east, at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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 Prostitution Lawyers, Legal Information, Attorney Finder
Prostitution laws are gender neutral in some states, and cover both opposite sex and same sex prostitution.
An understanding that a person is making an exchange of money for sex is all that is required to patronize prostitution.  There is no requirement that money change hands, or that any sexual act occur.
If you are accused of prostitution or solicitation, you should speak to a criminal defense lawyer immediately to learn more about your rights, your defenses and the complicated legal system.
www.legalmatch.com /law-library/article/prostitution-lawyers.html   (182 words)

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