It would be interesting to compare with the receipts of the Wild Horse “Ranch” in McCarran (just east of Mustang) which is just 1 mile of I80.

The competition is brutal and the margins are low in long-haul. The poor schmuck in a Swift or Werner truck is only making $30-45k per year, not a lot of disposable income.

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Sorry.

yankinwaoz :
June 18th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

Re: Brothels… in Australia, prostitution has been decriminalized meaning that is it not legal, but also not illegal.

I’ve walked into a couple by accident.

Yeah, I’ve used that “by accident” thing too…

There are a lot of professions I wouldn’t want my friends or relatives in, but that doesn’t mean I think they should be illegal. I’d hate to have a relative working for WalMart, a meat packing firm, etc. But I would like to see prostitution regulated so that the sex workers don’t get exploited by pimps (who take virtually all the money prostitutes earn and who treat them terribly), so that their health is protected, etc.

I believe that a prostitute has just as much right to use her bottom as an engineer has to use his brain. IMO, the government should regulate only in the realm of health concerns. That's what I saw being done in Germany. Stutgart has its drifarbenhaus (house of 3 colors).

I don’t know if it was here, NPR, or somewhere else where I read/heard about Branson, MO’s new fuel discount campaign to get visitors to pony up the fuel to visit. Other destination resorts, like the on my mom works at in Arizona, are feeling it. People just don’t wanna drive somewhere and then not have enough money to enjoy it when they get there.

Re: Brothels… in Australia, prostitution has been decriminalized meaning that is it not legal, but also not illegal. They do have legal brothels everywhere (they call them “knock shops” there). There are rules they have to follow. What exactly, the rules are, I don’t know. But they are subtle places. I unknowingly walked past on the way to work for years until my girlfriend pointed it out to me. I had thought it was a law firm or something. She used to use their parking lot when clubbing as a teenager.

I’ve walked into a couple by accident. One time out bar-hopping with a coworker, drunk as skunks, looked like a bar from the outside. Inside was nice, but not a bar, and not one we could afford. My GF was pissed off about that until she checked with a coworker and confirmed there is a brothel in that area that does look very much like a bar.

Another time in Perth I tweaked my back and we drove past a business named “West Perth Massage”. Just the therapy I needed! So we went in, a naked girl ran into the back. It took a minute to sink in that they were not going to be able to fix my back. My GF thought it was hilarious. I wonder that the clerk though about this couple coming in, with the guy bent over in pain.

I had a flatmate in Perth who worked at a brothel in the outback running the front desk. She always had heaps of entertaining stories when she came home from work.

Oz… what an awesome place…

Don’t generalize. From your writing, it’s apparent that it would offend YOU if your relatives sold themselves. If my relatives knowingly and willingly decided that this was a career path for them, I would support this decision as I would any career decision. Assuming, of course, that it was legal. I’m sure others would, as well.

Besides, who are you to determine who is a scum bag? Just because their beliefs or morals differ don’t make them bad people.

Also, when was prostitution limited to females?

Seems like you might have a narrow view of the real world, as well as history (America didn’t pioneer prostitution, and just because the Moral Majority don’t agree NOW doesn’t mean anything for the past. Plenty of sane, moral civilizations supported prostitution).

Not everything is okay just because a few scum bags do it. I doubt you’d like your mom, wife, sister or daughter selling themselves, so why would it be okay with someone else’s? Show some decency.

The brothels shouldn’t be burdened with such practices. Why not have the truck stops hire prostitutes? It would eliminate the wasted gas, encourage “entertainment @ the pump,” and be less of a fire hazard for the brothels.

Oh, I forgot. We live in a country where prostitution is, for the most part, illegal (while those writing said laws turn up in related scandals on a regular basis).