January 6, 2010
Nevada officials allow brothel owner to hire male prostitutes
Michael K. Lavers READ TIME: 1 MIN.
Officials in a remote Nevada county have given a brothel owner the go ahead to hire male prostitutes.
The Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board voted yesterday to allow Bobbi Davis, owner of the Shady Lady Ranch near Beatty, to hire men. Her brothel's Web site contains a call "for a few good men" who are between 21 and 40. Other desired qualities include "a good work ethic," "must be service oriented," "have a willingness to please," and "have a positive attitude."
"I personally feel, as do the many other women who have made contact with me since I started this, that this is a service whose time has come," Davis wrote in a letter to Nye County officials as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Eight of Nevada's 16 counties currently allow prostitution. The state has 28 legal brothels, but prostitution is illegal in both Clark and Washoe Counties.
Former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss announced in Nov. 2005 she and Joe Richards planned to convert a Crystal brothel that would only cater to women. Plans for Heidi's Stud Farm fell through, but she continues to operate a laundromat in nearby Pahrump.
Based in Washington, D.C., Michael K. Lavers has appeared in the New York Times, BBC, WNYC, Huffington Post, Village Voice, Advocate and other mainstream and LGBT media outlets. He is an unapologetic political junkie who thoroughly enjoys living inside the Beltway.
