If you’ve been cutting back on your brothel visits because of the high price of gasoline, you might want to make an appointment with Shady Lady Ranch:
Clients of the Shady Lady Ranch will get a $50 gas voucher if they fork out $300—worth about one hour’s worth of services—at the brothel in Beatty, Nevada, 130 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Reuters writes, “the $50 rebate would roughly cover the cost of a round trip drive from Las Vegas to the ranch,” and the owner of the brothel reports that it’s been quite popular—”the first $1,000 were spent in one week.”
“It’s rocking along. We’re doing quite well. June and July historically are not big months,” said Davis, who is co-owner of the brothel along with his wife Bobbi, in a telephone interview.
Bobbi came up with the idea.
Hey, if you carpool out to Shady Lady, you can even end up with some extra tipping money in your budget. You know, for the strippers back in Vegas.
“Brothel offers customers gas rebate” [Reuters]
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@PersonOfInterest: So anyone that won’t do something with you or for you for free is being exploited? We all compensate people for their time, attention, companionship and many, many other services all the time. What makes sex different, if the person offering the sex -chooses- to do so as a business transaction? People have sex for lots and lots of different reasons. If everyone’s a consenting adult and no one’s been coerced, who are you to say it’s exploitation?
From what I have seen of those places… they are creepy as hell! The girls are not as attractive as the average high-class escort. You are never far from the “caretaker” (madam) popping her head in & the amount of rules in those places are insane. I’d rather deal with a high-class hooker that provides a REAL personal one on one service than those state approved brothels in nevada.
@PersonOfInterest: I have a job. I am constantly exploited, per your logic. But that’s OK, since I willingly accepted my position. Hell, I even wanted to be exploited…I sent my resume and showed up to a lengthy interview.
Maybe I need to seek counseling.
You can have you beliefs. If you choose not to be a hooker I’m cool with that. Don’t try to stop others from making their own choices, by implying they are somehow unaware of their “exploited” circumstance.
@Teapotfox: @Crushmeguy: I am sorry you feel that sex is no different than any other transaction or task in life. Perhaps you should seek counseling.
@PersonOfInterest: That’s the second time you’ve apologized as a replacement to offering a substantive thought. That leads me to believe you have no demonstrable argument supporting you previous comments.
It’s a cop out to essentially say, “You just don’t get it”.
@Crushmeguy: Is their a rational argument for putting your penis above all else? I don’t have one so I don’t know. Sorry.
@PersonOfInterest: If the person won’t have sex with you without taking money it is not consensual. Let’s not pretend you aren’t participating in something exploitive because you financially compensated the other person.
So because I wont do any thing for my office without being compensated its not consensual and I am being exploited? Who knew slavery was still alive and well in America?!
@Tmoney02: She won’t respond with an ounce of reasoning to you, unfortunately.
@PersonOfInterest: Another overly dramatic comment with little to no substance. I’m noticing a trend. How is paying for sex putting a penis above all else?
@Crushmeguy: @Tmoney02: I have already addressed the office work is just like giving fat, ugly guys bjs for money argument. Paying someone to have sex with you is wrong. Their is no such thing as a happy, “liberated” hooker. All prostitution is explotive. The arguement for why you shouldn’t care or why these facts are not facts is entirely your responsibility. However, I don’t believe it is possible to be a rational person and make a rational argument for prostituion. So, you could not pay me to continue this conversation.
@PersonOfInterest: I have already addressed the office work is just like giving fat, ugly guys bjs for money argument.
No, No you didn’t….
Their is no such thing as a happy, “liberated” hooker.
Oh really? I say there is. I guess you are going to bring some proof that every single woman who has worked the profession was horribly unhappy and was not “liberated” – however you are using that very broad term. (Can we both agree to at least a smirk that broad was used in a prostitution argument?)
All prostitution is explotive
Ahhh, we have now made a circular argument since you haven’t explained your first point…at all.
However, I don’t believe it is possible to be a rational person and make a rational argument for prostituion. So, you could not pay me to continue this conversation.
I don’t think it is a mark of a rational person to dismiss any viewpoints that are not your own. When you are ready to have a rational and this is key – non emotional – discussion please come back. I promise myself and Crushmeguy will be polite. Otherwise please go back to whence you came….
@Crushmeguy: So I see, and sorry to steal your argument. I had this open in a window and responded without refreshing first, though apparently great minds think alike!
@PersonOfInterest: That’s an excellent way to bow out of the conversation. It’s my responsibility to figure out why you think all prostitution is exploitive.
That makes even less sense than anything else you’ve said!
@PersonOfInterest: Also I can point to some sites including Jezebel (the gawker feminist site) who have women who say they enjoy their work. Are you saying you know better than they do about their happiness and liberation?
@PersonOfInterest: I didn’t say it always was. I actually said I think sex can be and mean a lot of different things to people, even different things to the same person, in different contexts. I find your suggestion that I seek counseling pretty laughable when it comes from someone who apparently demands that everyone must conform to his/her narrow view of what sex is, what sex means and how everyone must value it.
How can you say you know better than other people do what their experience is and what it means to them?