Laraine Russo Harper - Legal Tender: True Tales of a Brothel Madam
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Laraine Harper left a positive mark on the Nevada brothel industry. It takes a very special individual to oversee a covey of strong-willed working girls and her sense of humor and ability to make the best and the most out of any situation is reflected in her writing.
Wayne Bridge
CEO, Sin City Chamber of Commerce
Wow. Talk about Nevada off the beaten path. In Legal Tender, Laraine Russo Harper gives readers a tour of the states legal brothel industry. Find out who pays for what and why whats on the menu and that its really true; some men do pay just to talk.
Heidi Knapp Rinella
Author, Nevada Off the Beaten Path
My Red Hat Society chapter visited the brothel out of curiosity and ended up with an education, as Laraine and one of the ladies answered every question we asked and even let us get our pictures taken in the S&M room. Legal Tender is equally enlightening.
Olga Scheel
Member, Red Hat Society
Legal brothels are legendary establishments in these parts. They would have to be to lure customers away from the Las Vegas Strip, with all its earthly delights. And who better to share a brothels colorful history than the madam who saw and heard everything.
Jack Sheehan
Author, Skin City: Uncovering the Las Vegas Sex Industry
Totally captivating! I started the book on Friday night and couldnt put it down until I finished it early Saturday morning. I felt like I had spent the night with the author telling me her story. I laughed; I cried; I learned. A real eye-opener!
Carole Buffington
Businesswoman (with a whole new perception)
An up close and personal look at what REALLY happens in a legal brothel and what most brothel owners never want the outside world to know. From the fast money to the moments laughing with each other to the not-so-pretty times too, this is the real story. I have worked in the brothel industry for nine years. The brothel industry has lost a great madam but I gained a true friend in the writer/madam. Funny, whod have thought I would find such a real friendship in a brothel, but this ol hooker smiles, even as I write it.
Famous Alicia
Great reading! As a former madam myself, I can honestly say Legal Tender is very informative, true to life and totally entertaining. My madam years were the most interesting years Ive ever had and enabled me to view life differently. Thank you, Laraine, for educating the public sector.
Alotta Fanz
Former Madam
Legal Tender is the best way to see the inner workings of what most people dont understand, and call a whorehouse. Reading it, youll experience the good side of a house, where some great ladies live, work and play a brothel. I know. Ive been there, done that, and got the T-shirt.
Mark Gassman
Customer
Legal Tender is by far the most accurate and entertaining description of the brothel business today. As a brothel owner myself I was happy to see that someone has finally taken the time to enlighten the general public of what really takes place at a brothel. You will be genuinely surprised to learn what it takes to make this controversial industry successful and, at times, laugh out loud as some situations can only take place inside the world of legal prostitution. Legal Tender will take you on a journey into the depths of the world of legalized prostitution and what affects it has on people of all walks of life. In the line-up of brothel literature, Legal Tender tells it like it is with humor and truth.
Bobbie Davis, Owner
Shady Lady Ranch
Dedication
To my husband, Kevin; my three children, Jennifer, Michael, and Kevin;
my doggies, who have always made me look good; my friends in Las Vegas and Bradley Beach;
the beautiful ladies of the brothel; and Ed, who I will miss until we meet again.
Nevada has a reputation as a place where live and let live is not just a dusty proverb, but a way of life. It started with the adventurous souls who came to the sparse and unforgiving deserts of the Great Basin in the mid-nineteenth century. These pioneers and fortune-seekers tended to be people who chafed at the notion of being told what to do, whether by a government official, law enforcement officer, or religious leader. The central tenet of the frontier lifestyle they embraced was that people can do pretty much whatever they want as long as they dont hurt others.
This philosophy was reinforced in 1931 when the Nevada Legislature passed and Governor Fred Balzar signed a bill to legalize casino gambling. This bold act sparked furious condemnations across the country. In his book Nevada: A History , the late Robert Laxalt summarized the national reaction and the Silver States response:
The hue and cry was directed at Nevada from all parts of the nation. It came in the form of denunciation from the pulpits, angry speeches in the Congress, and indignation from newspaper editors. If the intent of the moral outrage was to shame Nevada into the paths of righteousness, it failed. All that it accomplished was to make Nevadans defensive, and in the process, bolster an uncertain support within the states borders for its libertarian laws.
Nevadas radical tolerance extended beyond gambling to include other sinful activities, including prize-fighting, quickie divorces, and prostitution. The latter vice did a thriving business in the formative years of the small railroad town of Las Vegas, where Block 16 was designated as the zone where drinking liquor and paying for sexual favors would be tolerated. Block 16 continued to function as the citys red-light district until World War II, when military leaders at the local air base insisted that the young soldiers not be subjected to such blatant temptations.
While brothels were nudged or shoved out of the newly image-conscious cities, they continued to operate in rural parts of Nevada. There was no state law that explicitly addressed the legality of prostitution still isnt but the brothels remained open by the grace of the local sheriff and district attorney.
Of course, this was a tenuous way of doing business. Tired of the nagging uncertainty that moral crusaders could shut him down as a public nuisance, Joe Conforte, owner of the Mustang Ranch outside Reno, persuaded Storey County politicians in 1971 to create an ordinance legalizing brothels. Other rural counties soon followed Storeys lead, creating ordinances for the licensing, regulation, and taxation of houses of prostitution.
By state law, brothels are not allowed in counties with more than 400,000 population. This affects two of them: Clark (home of Las Vegas) and Washoe (home of Reno). Brothels also are outlawed by local ordinance in Douglas and Lincoln counties and the state capital of Carson City. Eureka and Pershing counties, which do not have any brothels, lack ordinances for or against.
That leaves ten Nevada counties that permit brothels in certain areas and that currently have at least one in business. The number fluctuates, but in recent times twenty-five to thirty brothels have been operating in the state, says George Flint, longtime lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Owners Association.
That number is a little deceptive, though, because only eight of them can be considered major brothels, according to Flint. He estimates the eight major brothels do ninety-three percent of the business. The others are mom-and-pop operations in far-flung locales that cater primarily to long-haul truckers.
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