# Male Prostitution in Nevada... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 4, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346 "2009-11-04T23:13:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/21 "2009-11-05T15:53:32Z")
> [@GreasyJack](#): > > That the state law specifies cervical exams for prostitutes, which might be a bit of a problem with male prostitutes who presumably lack cervices. I’m sure there are other ways to test for these things and that the wording could be cleared up easily enough. Yes, perhaps through a blood test or penile swab. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/22 "2009-11-05T15:56:16Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > If I’m a closeted gay man who wants to pay for sex, I’d be pretty happy to find a place that was legal (hence decreasing the chance of getting my name in the police blotters) But it’s not just the police blotters they’re concerned about. It’s the possibility of someone seeing them and identifying them. The more people there are around, the more likely that is to happen. Hence why they don’t go to gay bars, even to engage in legal activities. > [@](#): > > Granted you’d need to set it up so that the clientelle would be isolated from other customers, so they wouldn’t have to worry about being outted, but that doesn’t seem like it would be overly difficult. It does seem to me like it would be difficult. How would you prevent people seeing each other going in and out of the premises? How would you prevent people being seen going into the establishment by nosy tabloid types hanging around outside? ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/23 "2009-11-05T16:16:52Z")
> [@ruadh](#): > > It does seem to me like it would be difficult. How would you prevent people seeing each other going in and out of the premises? How would you prevent people being seen going into the establishment by nosy tabloid types hanging around outside? Make it a male and female brothel. Hard to show someone is gay when they could be hiring a woman. Have the prostitute come to the client, rather then the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/24 "2009-11-05T16:32:30Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Have the prostitute come to the client, rather then the other way around. Kinda like they already do, many of them? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/25 "2009-11-05T16:35:30Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Have the prostitute come to the client, rather then the other way around. Is this legal? I sort of assumed that legal prostitutes in Nevada were required to work out of brothels, but I don’t really know. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/26 "2009-11-05T20:07:20Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Is this legal? I sort of assumed that legal prostitutes in Nevada were required to work out of brothels, but I don’t really know. You’re right, it all has to take place inside brothels. And not only are they required to work inside the brothels - they can be prohibited from leaving the brothels at all while on duty (and “on duty” can mean for a couple weeks at a time), or from leaving the brothel after a certain time of day, or from going into the towns around the brothel when they’re off duty. I don’t think there’s a chance that house calls would be allowed. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/27 "2009-11-05T20:14:11Z")
> [@ruadh](#): > > You’re right, it all has to take place inside brothels. > > And not only are they required to work inside the brothels - they can be prohibited from leaving the brothels at all while on duty (and “on duty” can mean for a couple weeks at a time), or from leaving the brothel after a certain time of day, or from going into the towns around the brothel when they’re off duty. I don’t think there’s a chance that house calls would be allowed. Why all the prohibitions? That doesn’t seem fair. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/28 "2009-11-05T20:35:37Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Why all the prohibitions? That doesn’t seem fair. It’s basically a mechanism for separating the sex industry from “respectable” society. The residents of the counties where brothels are legal are happy to have the money they bring in, but they’re still generally quite conservative people (it’s only the less populous counties that are allowed to have them at all) and the way they resolve that contradiction is by ensuring the industry remains as tightly boxed off as possible - they don’t want it integrated into community life at all. That means keeping a tight leash on the women, lest they contaminate ordinary townsfolk. And, of course, they have no respect whatsoever for the women working there, so they don’t care about the violations of their civil rights and liberties that these policies entail. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/29 "2009-12-14T17:44:40Z")
Follow up because of breaking news. [Nev. brothel aims to offer 1st male prostitutes](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MALE_PROSTITUTES_NEVADA?SITE=OHCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) > [@](#): > > Until now, men have been effectively barred from legally plying the world’s oldest profession in Nevada by the specificity of a state health law requiring prostitutes to undergo frequent cervical testing for sexually transmitted diseases. > > The health board approved a regulation to allow urethral testing for men - a crucial rule change by the state agency with ultimate power over whether prostitutes can or can’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/30 "2009-12-14T18:17:57Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Why all the prohibitions? That doesn’t seem fair. I was also under the impression that restricting the movements of the prostitutes insures that they won’t be picking up any STDs while engaged in extracurricular activities. They are in essence, “quarantined”. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/31 "2009-12-14T18:55:34Z")
> [@](#): > > they have no respect whatsoever for the women working there That was not my experience in Lander and Elko counties. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/32 "2009-12-15T22:34:15Z")
Every human has a cervix, the part between the torso and head. Women have another, the neck of the womb. Any male prostitute can consent to a cervical swab, though it wouldn’t prove much about STDs. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/33 "2009-12-16T14:42:07Z")
Prostitution is legal in NSW, QLD, VIC and ACT in Australia and there is considerable demand for Male prostitutes however they service almost entirely gay clients. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/34 "2009-12-16T15:05:47Z")
I was under the impression that male prostitution was legal in Nevada, as long as they were only serving female clients. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/35 "2009-12-16T17:42:55Z")
Or you could just read the whole thread and find out that you were wrong. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/36 "2009-12-16T18:06:43Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346/37 "2009-12-16T21:38:55Z")
On the subject of Nevada prostitution: 1. What’s the name of the brothel (supposedly the only such brothel in Nevada) where the prices for the services are posted outside the door and are not open to negotiation? 2. Do the prostitutes generally just lie there and take it, or do they at least pretend to be into the experience? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-prostitution-in-nevada/516346.md?page=1)