by Jeremy Lemur | Jan 17, 2015 | Legal Prostitution
As a Nevada native, Greg Anthony should have known better. The former UNLV basketball star, who played professionally for the New York Knicks and later became a TV sports analyst, was arrested yesterday for soliciting a prostitute in Washington DC. Today, CBS and...
by Jeremy Lemur | Dec 12, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
With the recent closure of two Nye County brothels, Angel’s Ladies and the Shady Lady Ranch, there has been a lot of media chatter suggesting that Nevada’s legal bordellos won’t last long into the 21st century. In a front page article in the Las Vegas Review Journal...
by Jeremy Lemur | Oct 21, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
The jargon of the illegal prostitution industry is changing. As escort websites like myredbook.com are being exposed as resources for illegal prostitution and getting shut down by the FBI, a new type of “dating” site is rapidly gaining in popularity and emerging as...
by Jeremy Lemur | Oct 17, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
When Nevada legalized prostitution in the form of rural brothels back in 1971, personal computing was barely in its infancy and the internet was a concept yet to be actualized. The brothels of Nevada, unable to advertise anywhere where prostitution is illegal, had...
by Jeremy Lemur | Jul 14, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
Alix Tichelman, an illegal prostitute, was recently arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly injecting a lethal dose of heroin into Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes and callously leaving him to die on his yacht in Santa Cruz. The horrific nature of this...
by Jeremy Lemur | Jul 3, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
On June 30th the Oakland Police Department announced the launch of a website that displays the names and photos of “pimps and purchasers,” individuals arrested for soliciting prostitutes or benefiting from prostitution. This is not the first time that a city decided...