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		<title>By: Amanda Brooks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amanda Brooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lee -- Generally these places always offer food to bar customers (and some have actual restaurants). As for the workers...it&#039;s hit or miss. I assume the places with commercial-quality kitchens prepare food for the workers there but that&#039;s assuming a lot. Places without commercial kitchens, like Bella&#039;s, operated more like a home, with people doing their own thing in the kitchen and general meals prepared by the housemom on duty. Meals were prepared as in: that&#039;s what she wanted to cook that day and if you didn&#039;t want to eat it you went hungry. Just like home!

Serving liquor in a brothel is more along the lines of adult entertainment and relaxation than attempting to sabotage men&#039;s abilities. Few women like dealing with a drunk man with whiskey dick. It&#039;s not an aid to smooth or pleasant sex work.

&quot;Are all NV brothels owned by egocentric wingnuts like Bella and Dennis Hof?&quot;
My guess would be yes, the majority. But that&#039;s supposition.

The first step in brothels making their regulations more appealing to more workers would be to fix the legal working situation. Since they are &lt;strong&gt;legal&lt;/strong&gt; then they should behave in a legal manner toward their workers: either the workers are employees or independent contractors. Once brothels figure out which side of the fence they and their workers fall, a whole lot of issues would smooth out in a hurry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lee &#8212; Generally these places always offer food to bar customers (and some have actual restaurants). As for the workers&#8230;it&#8217;s hit or miss. I assume the places with commercial-quality kitchens prepare food for the workers there but that&#8217;s assuming a lot. Places without commercial kitchens, like Bella&#8217;s, operated more like a home, with people doing their own thing in the kitchen and general meals prepared by the housemom on duty. Meals were prepared as in: that&#8217;s what she wanted to cook that day and if you didn&#8217;t want to eat it you went hungry. Just like home!</p>
<p>Serving liquor in a brothel is more along the lines of adult entertainment and relaxation than attempting to sabotage men&#8217;s abilities. Few women like dealing with a drunk man with whiskey dick. It&#8217;s not an aid to smooth or pleasant sex work.</p>
<p>&#8220;Are all NV brothels owned by egocentric wingnuts like Bella and Dennis Hof?&#8221;<br />
My guess would be yes, the majority. But that&#8217;s supposition.</p>
<p>The first step in brothels making their regulations more appealing to more workers would be to fix the legal working situation. Since they are <strong>legal</strong> then they should behave in a legal manner toward their workers: either the workers are employees or independent contractors. Once brothels figure out which side of the fence they and their workers fall, a whole lot of issues would smooth out in a hurry.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amanda – One thing I&#039;m really curious about in these places is how the food is handled. Who chooses what will be eaten, who cooks, who buys? Is there a regular cook? Maybe I&#039;m off on the scale of the places. Do they serve the customers food to go with all the liquor? (Sex and liquor – some combination. Are they deliberately trying to encourage the customers from dehydrating and not getting or keeping it up? Or are half the customers on pills anyway? (probably)

I found it ironic that the Korean places that get pelted with false human trafficking accusations generally have better, less adversarial working conditions and fairer monetary splits than what you&#039;ve described here, which is legal. Are all NV brothels owned by egocentric wingnuts like Bella and Dennis Hof?

The lady&#039;s ignorance of sex work beyond her limited sphere is not surprising. I guess it should not be surprising either that she would fall back on silly, false clichés rather than put in the effort to educate herself, but talk about advertising your laziness as a writer.

You&#039;re last paragraph pretty much says it all (&quot;I really wish they’d realize their working conditions could be easily modified to appeal to a much broader and better range of sex worker&quot;). I kept getting off track trying to read the post because my head kept filling with ways to do this, but given how restrictive the regulations on brothel ownership are written, there isn&#039;t much point in listing them (probably could be summed up with &#039;common decency&#039;).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amanda – One thing I&#8217;m really curious about in these places is how the food is handled. Who chooses what will be eaten, who cooks, who buys? Is there a regular cook? Maybe I&#8217;m off on the scale of the places. Do they serve the customers food to go with all the liquor? (Sex and liquor – some combination. Are they deliberately trying to encourage the customers from dehydrating and not getting or keeping it up? Or are half the customers on pills anyway? (probably)</p>
<p>I found it ironic that the Korean places that get pelted with false human trafficking accusations generally have better, less adversarial working conditions and fairer monetary splits than what you&#8217;ve described here, which is legal. Are all NV brothels owned by egocentric wingnuts like Bella and Dennis Hof?</p>
<p>The lady&#8217;s ignorance of sex work beyond her limited sphere is not surprising. I guess it should not be surprising either that she would fall back on silly, false clichés rather than put in the effort to educate herself, but talk about advertising your laziness as a writer.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re last paragraph pretty much says it all (&#8220;I really wish they’d realize their working conditions could be easily modified to appeal to a much broader and better range of sex worker&#8221;). I kept getting off track trying to read the post because my head kept filling with ways to do this, but given how restrictive the regulations on brothel ownership are written, there isn&#8217;t much point in listing them (probably could be summed up with &#8216;common decency&#8217;).</p>
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		<title>By: Amanda Brooks</title>
		<link>http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/review-legal-tender/comment-page-1/#comment-326241</link>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Brooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David -- Ha! Excellent point!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David &#8212; Ha! Excellent point!</p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
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		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Toby Keith - that does explain everything! Of course, running someone else&#039;s life and then charging them for the opportunity fits with a Toby Keith fan:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Toby Keith &#8211; that does explain everything! Of course, running someone else&#8217;s life and then charging them for the opportunity fits with a Toby Keith fan:)</p>
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		<title>By: Amanda Brooks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amanda Brooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sequoia -- To my knowledge, the northern NV brothels aren&#039;t complete lockdown, some allow the workers to go home after their shifts. No one has ever given a concrete explanation for the lockdown rule in southern NV brothels. Though I think it&#039;s something about the fear of women getting out, being wild and becoming diseased (or maybe making money on the side). 

America has Puritan roots, Australia has criminal roots. It explains a LOT. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sequoia &#8212; To my knowledge, the northern NV brothels aren&#8217;t complete lockdown, some allow the workers to go home after their shifts. No one has ever given a concrete explanation for the lockdown rule in southern NV brothels. Though I think it&#8217;s something about the fear of women getting out, being wild and becoming diseased (or maybe making money on the side). </p>
<p>America has Puritan roots, Australia has criminal roots. It explains a LOT. <img src='http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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