Harry Reid called on legislators to ban prostitution in a speech to lawmakers. Has Nevada tried to end legal prostitution? So by taxing it, there's a recognition of the legality of it. Jim Gibbons had earlier expressed his disapproval of the bill, telling NPR : "I'm not a supporter of legalizing prostitution in Nevada. The bill failed a committee vote and didn’t move forward in the Legislature even though prostitutes and others in the industry voiced their support for a tax. With an estimated 400,000 customer days in Nevada legal brothels each year, the measure was expected to bring in $2 million. Bob Coffin introduced a bill to apply a $5-per-day tax for customers buying prostitution services.
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There is also one in Storey County, the Mustang Ranch in Sparks one in Mineral County, the Wild Cat Brothel in Mina two in White Pine County, the Stardust Ranch Brothel and Big 4 Ranch in Ely one in Lander County, Hot Desert Club Girls in Battle Mountain and seven in Elko County, the Dove Tail Ranch and Sharon’s Brothel and Bar in Carlin, the Desert Rose Gentlemen's Club, Inez’s D&D, Mona’s Ranch and Sue’s Fantasy Club in Elko and Bella’s Hacienda Ranch and Donna’s Ranch in Wells.Īlthough brothels and prostitutes pay a state business license fee, there is no excise tax on sex acts. Lyon County has four, all of which are owned by Hof. Nye County has four, including two owned by Dennis Hof. Times in early May revealed there are 20 operational brothels in Nevada. That includes Las Vegas and Reno, as well as the state capital.Ī count by the L.A. Prostitution is illegal in Clark, Washoe, Carson City, Pershing, Douglas, Eureka and Lincoln counties. Elko, Humboldt, Lyon, and White Pine County only allow brothels in some incorporated communities. Churchill County allows prostitution, but the last brothel license was surrendered in 2004.Įsmeralda, Lander, Mineral, Nye and Storey County allow brothels throughout. Only 10 counties in Nevada allow prostitution, and even then, only within licensed brothels. State law bans licensed brothels in counties with populations of 700,000 or more (currently Clark County, home of Las Vegas).
Nevada law prohibits solicitation and prostitution unless it takes place in a licensed house of prostitution.
Still, it wasn’t until the Storey County Commission officially sanctioned Joe Conforte’s Mustang Ranch Brothel in 1971 that the state had its first legal brothel, historian Guy Rocha told the Reno Gazette-Journal. From 19, there was a wave of laws passed against people who profited off putting women and girls into prostitution.īut Nevada was a holdout, and brothels were openly operated and “tolerated,” if not explicitly allowed, for decades. The movement against prostitution after the Civil War was closely linked to the abolition of slavery, and started with efforts to fight the licensing of houses of prostitution in many states, according to a history provided as part of a Ninth Circuit Court decision on brothel advertising.
Elsewhere in the country, the sale of sex was not widely barred before the 20th century, but was subject to vagrancy and “streetwalking” bans that would have limited prostitutes’ activities outside of indoor brothels. The state’s earliest brothels date back to Nevada’s early mining days in the 19th century.
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