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A poll conducted in Nevada in 2002 [86] found that 52% of the 600 respondents favored the existing legal and regulated brothels, while 31% were against laws that allow prostitution and the remainder were undecided, preferred fewer legal constraints on prostitution, or did not offer an opinion. In 2003, nearly 60% of Nevada residents opposed the ...
Nevada is the only U.S. jurisdiction to allow some legal prostitution. Currently six of Nevada's seventeen counties have active brothels (all being rural counties); as of February 2018, there are 21 brothels in Nevada. [51] Prostitution outside the licensed brothels is illegal throughout Nevada.
Note, however, that this list so far only covers the modern era of brothel prostitution in Nevada, from about 1950 onward, after the closure of the red light districts of Reno and Las Vegas. According to the Nevada Brothel List site, there were 21 legal brothels in Nevada as of February 2018, [1] down from its peak of 35 in the early 1980s. [2]
The brothel started out as a set of four double-wide trailers, run by Richard Bennett and initially called Mustang Bridge Ranch. Joe Conforte (1925-2019), (Look gave his age as 48 in 1971) who had owned several brothels in Nevada together with his wife, Sally Burgess Conforte aka Jesse E. Conforte (1917–1992) since October 1955, took over the Mustang Bridge Ranch in 1967.
Harrell also was a candidate for the Nevada Assembly in 1974. She published a book about the Ranch, An Orderly House, in 1975 (ISBN 0440058856). A record, Coming My Way, was released in 1976 and was a collection of stories by the employees of the brothel. [3] Howard Harrell operated the brothel before selling the Cottontail.
Nevada is the only state in the United States in which prostitution is legal, although only in 10 rural counties and only in licensed houses. There was no state law on prostitution in Nevada until 1971, when a section of the Nevada Revised Statutes effectively legalized prostitution in counties with a population of under 400,000. [80]
Anti-human trafficking advocates across the state have been actively educating legislators since January 2023 about the need to change solicitation of prostitution from a misdemeanor to a felony.
The Moonlite BunnyRanch is a legal, licensed brothel in Mound House, Nevada, United States, 6 miles (10 km) east of Carson City. First opened in 1955, it came to national attention under Dennis Hof , who owned the brothel from 1992 until his death in 2018.