ACLU joins fight against limits on brothel ads

[NVMojo]

March 18, 2006

When businesswoman Bobbi Davis tried to lure newcomers to her rural establishment by placing a $50 coupon in a Las Vegas newspaper, she was quickly rebuffed.

"We went in to place an ad, and we were refused," the owner of the Shady Lady Ranch brothel near Beatty said Friday. "The ad didn't even have any pictures, just a special for $50 off our hourly rate."

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But Las Vegas' weekly CityLife newspaper, known for publishing plenty of risque advertisements that feature scantily clad women offering "full service," um, services, had to turn Davis down. While prostitution is legal in several rural Nevada counties, it is unlawful to advertise it in counties such as Clark, where prostitution is illegal.

"We can only advertise locally," Davis said. "I live outside a town that has 1,100 people in it. We don't want the locals, we want the tourists."

Now the American Civil Liberties Union has taken up Davis' cause. The organization filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court this week seeking to overturn legislation that prohibits brothel owners from advertising in other counties, claiming the law violates owners' constitutional rights. CityLife and the High Desert Advocate newspaper in Wendover joined Davis as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. CityLife is owned by Stephens Media Group, which also owns the Review-Journal (poster's note: a very conservative newspaper).

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[GrumpyGreg]

1. Obviously the ACLU has too much time on it's hands.

[Peanutcat]

2. What's your problem?

Business should have the right to advertise where they want to.

[ThomCat]

3. If it's legal run this business then it should be legal to advertise it.

Let's have some consistency here.

[ThomCat]

4. WooHOO! I killed this thread!

:woohoo:

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

6. Nothing future to

be said here!

[Pushed To The Left]

5. Exactly! n/t

[Joe Fields]

7. I worked as an ad salesman for the Pahrump Valley Times,

a daily newspaper, just 56 miles from Las Vegas, and in Nye County, NV., where prostitution IS legal. We also sold advertising for the local yellow pages, and our policy was not to accept ads from brothels for the newspaper, but we could sell brothel ads for the yellow pages. Kind of wierd, huh?

[Yatar]

8. It's a business.

For better or for worse.