BY Adam Sommers
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, January 6th 2010, 2:20 PM
Hey, guys, have you hit hard times? Is it hard to find a job? Has it been been hard to start a new career? Well, it may be hard to believe, but the Nevada sex industry may have a position — or two — for you.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the owner of the Shady Lady Ranch is looking for “a few good men” who are willing to become Nevada’s first legal male sex workers.
“This is a service whose time has come,” owner Bobbi Davis said in a letter to Nye County officials who had to approve of the business expansion.
A county liquor board’s vote Tuesday affirming that Davis could offer “shady men” to her clientele followed months of rancorous debate among the state’s legal brothel community, the Times reported.
George Flint, a longtime lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Association, has said that allowing male prostitutes could be the industry’s Pearl Harbor. He has hinted that brothels possibly offering gay sex - a choice each prostitute, as an independent contractor, would be free to make - might sour some legislators on the entire brothel system.
“This is the first time in the history of the world . . . that men have been licensed to sell sex,” Flint said at Tuesday board meeting, his voice rising. “It’s never been done!
”According to the Times, Davis and her husband, Jim, merely hope to boost business. Their small outpost near Death Valley, about 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas, offers as many as five women, relies heavily on travelers and has gotten some requests for gigolos.
Davis figures that, even if it’s a flop, adding men to her roster is worth trying. She has been inundated with more than 100 applications, she told the Times, though she has held off on hiring until she’d cleared the last all bureaucratic hurdle on Tuesday.
At a contentious meeting of the Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board, Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch, raised concerns about monitoring the spread of infectious diseases.
But Commissioner Lorinda Wichman would have none of it. “You guys can’t scare me,” the Times quoted her as saying before voting in Davis’ favor. “I’m going to try this.”
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Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/06/2010-01-06_shady_lady_ranch_in_nevada_makes_history_by_getting_approval_to_hire_male_prosti.html
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