Those that advocate the Nevada solution actually have little understanding of how it works when all control is in the hands of the state and a handful of brothel owners. Few ever consider that prostitutes do not want to live in a brothel and split their earnings with the business. The only part of the Nevada set-up that is beneficial to all is the required license and medical check-up on a regular basis.
Did you know that each time the prostitute leaves the brothel and is not on schedule that she must have a new medical check-up before she can return to work? That is a fact. She must stay in that brothel the entire time that she is there, or if going to town to shop for necessities it must be with an employee from the brothel. The brothels didn't allow cell phones in past years; however, I believe that this has changed today. The brothels also hold the prostitute's money until her scheduled stay is over and she is leaving, and often there are disputes in relation to the money. Most brothels take 50% of everything – including any tips or extras.
The prostitute that works in a Nevada brothel is completely controlled by the brothel. This method of operation benefits the state and the brothel owner. It does not benefit the prostitute or the client. Why do so many advocates of legalization want to subject women to this scheme of complete control? Even worse, they think that they are speaking for the women when throwing out these solutions in discussion.
Legalization should include freedom to choose. Let the prostitute have the required medical check and apply for a license and work wherever she wants to work. She could work entirely for herself or place the marketing and booking in the hands of an agency, or work in that brothel. Why are the majority of advocates of legalization so quick to hand over control to the state and a few business owners?
In so far as prostitution not being a victimless crime is concerned the argument is often pure crap.
Half the time the claim is that the client's wife and family are the victims, but this reasoning doesn't hold water. The client that sees a prostitute is saving his marriage more often than not. There are women everywhere – we are half of the general population – so that client could always get involved in an affair or sleep with someone he meets in a club or online. The risk to the marriage is far less when he hires a prostitute that has no real interest in him and simply wants to collect her fee for services. Think about it.
The other half of the victim claims relate to the prostitute being the victim. In all of the years that I was in the escort business I can confidently assert that no escort ever had to commit prostitution. I never encountered anyone forced into a life of prostitution, but then I did choose to work with escorts that were 28+ in age. When a woman commits prostitution it is usually because she needs and/or wants the money. It is all about the money.
Sure, we are all victims of our social and financial circumstances, but that is not what this crowd is referring to when claiming that the prostitute is the victim. Usually they are referring to all agency owners as pimps and users of women. Actually many of the escorts that worked for my agencies over the years victimized me, and not the opposite.
The escorts that committed prostitution most often did so for more money. I sure didn't keep any part of their tips, as the brothels in Nevada do. I also sure didn't control their phone calls or living arrangements, as the brothels in Nevada do. The great majority of escorts passed out their telephone number to clients and many opened their own escort services. Most stayed extra hours with clients, collected the entire amount, and eliminated paying the agency fee by claiming that they had to call off for one reason or another.
Those that committed prostitution also did so at the expense of the agency owner – they risked a minor misdemeanor and made large sums of money, but they put the agency owner at risk of being charged with serious felonies and the agency owner received none of that large sum of money.
So why does the general population think so much less of escort service owners than they do of prostitutes or of brothels in Nevada? Why do escort service owners face felony prosecutions that could imprison them for life? Think about it.
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