Attn Women: First Legal Male Prostitute Unzips in Nevada Brothel

[kevinbgoode]

Well, he won't do any gay men, but women walkin' into the Shady Lady Ranch now have their very own Markus, Nevada's first legally approved gigolo. The 25-year-old former Marine apparently won't do "teh gay" but promises to make every woman customer feel "empowered" for a mere $300 an hour.

Curiously, it appears the Ranch selected his resume when the former almost-kinda-porn actor was living in a homeless shelter in Santa Monica, so perhaps the Ranch is helping lift the homeless to a more productive life in the finest Horatio Alger tradition.

Anyway, here's his story in the NY Daily News. . .with a link to an interview in Details:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/01/22/2010-01-22_markus_the_countrys_first_legal_male_prostitute_is_now_ready_for_business_in_nev.html


I suppose some might argue that a couple of hours with Markus might be more empowering than contributing to another Blue Dog senator's campaign....

:) oops..edited to add "unzips" to headline. . .well, it DID seem applicable...

[begin_within]

1. Did they get him from Area 51?

Kinda weird looking.

[Lint Head]

7. I love your icon. Thanks for the Sinclair Lewis quote.

It is going up at my office on Monday.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. Them eyebrows look kinda gay to me.....

Maybe he's a metrosexual with a gay hairdresser.

[dorktv]

5. That is what I thought!

[xchrom]

8. Eyebrows plucked to a fare-thee-well and he wn't do gay men.

Oy. The jokes make themselves.

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. +1

When this story first broke out, I thought they may go with a Marlboro man or tatted bad boy type.

[Bluebear]

14. "Look kinda gay", eh? Anymore stereotypes you care to pack into your post?

[Cronus Protagonist]

42. sure, let me get out my gay to straight dictionary so I can get on the same page as you

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[omega minimo]

51. What did you say he packs his post into?

:wow:

[Bluebear]

58. Think Portnoy's Complaint :)

[dorktv]

3. Why are those eyebrows so plucked?

[Kadie]

4. Here is a picture of him from Yahoo News

This undated photo provided by OC Modeling of Chatsworth, Calif. shows 'Markus' Nevada's first male prostitute. A brothel in an isolated Nevada town has hired the state's first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only legal gigolo in the United States.
(AP Photo/OC Modeling) NO SALES


:hide:

[dorktv]

11. Looks like a nice kid.

Bit dumb.

[itsrobert]

41. I was wondering what happened to Frodo

I guess he puts on a hell of a Lord Of the Ring role playing sex act. For ladies that are into that sort of thing.

[Turborama]

43. He could do a great Shrek role play, as well.

For ladies who dig that kind of thing.

[Edweird]

6. Good luck....

[madville]

10. Here's the price list

For $100 he will give you a massage for an hour

For $300 he will rock your world for an hour

For $500 he will listen to you talk about feelings for an hour


:evilgrin:

[Cleita]

12. Gee and all those women looking for love in the singles meat markets of

Santa Monica only needed to go to the homeless shelter. Maybe for room and board, he might have done cleaning and shopping too.

[dorktv]

16. Can she be sure right away he is clean?

[Cleita]

17. I'm sure the madam must have some testing she puts her employees through.

It wouldn't be great for business if he left his first trick with the crabs or something even less desirable.

[dorktv]

21. That is why women would go to him.

[slampoet]

25. State of Nevada requires tests every month for all sex workers of this kind.

[dorktv]

31. I was refering to the fact that you know this guy is...guy at a meat market

I mean bar, no.

[slampoet]

44. Oops. Well in that case Nevada and their laws don't apply, ............mostly.

[southerncrone]

13. 25 years old? Looks more like 13.

[niyad]

18. and his lips look like they had collagen injected. . .

[Lorien]

38. He does.

Which will likely get an "eeeewwww!" from most prospective clients.

Nope. Sorry. Pass.

[KingFlorez]

15. How coincidental, the Supreme Court just declared Washington D.C. the first legal red light district

It's a banner couple of days for whoring for cash. "Toot, toot, hey, beep, beep".

[Luciferous]

20. LOL

[niyad]

19. so my question is, how much are the women making at the shady lady?

[Sultana]

22. DO NOT WANT!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. A new market for viagra.

[Meldread]

24. Awwww....

...he discriminates. How am I going to test the new product from the Shady Lady now? I guess I'll just have to wait for the Dancing Queen to embrace the future! :P

(BTW, did anyone read the article? Cuddles had something to say about his discrimination! YOU TELL HIM CUDDLES!

---"How can you just turn down services because of what someone's preferences is?" a 22-year-old prostitute named Cuddles, who works at the nearby Angel's Ladies Brothel, told the Associated Press. "It comes with the territory. It comes with the business."---)

I'm a little shocked that more men haven't been hired where it is legal. Maybe this trial run with Markus will prove it a viable business model, and more men will be hired as result. :P

Oh well, hopefully one day prostitution will finally be decriminalized nationwide. Then we could tax it to provide universal healthcare. :evilgrin:

Of course, to be serious, a major benefit would be that it would put a serious dent in and/or end human trafficking in the United States.

[seabeyond]

28. serious dent in and/or end human trafficking ...legalization increases it

all the nations that have legalized it are struggling with the increase. sweden had it legalized and revamped theirs laws recently because of problems. legalization doesnt appear to be the easy answer

http://www.ayudaparamujeres.com/cj_sweden.html

In just five years Sweden has dramatically reduced the number of its women in prostitution. In the capital city of Stockholm the number of women in street prostitution has been reduced by two thirds, and the number of johns has been reduced by 80%. There are other major Swedish cities where street prostitution has all but disappeared. Gone too, for the most part, are the renowned Swedish brothels and massage parlors which proliferated during the last three decades of the twentieth century when prostitution in Sweden was legal.

In addition, the number of foreign women now being trafficked into Sweden for sex is nil. The Swedish government estimates that in the last few years only 200 to 400 women and girls have been annually sex trafficked into Sweden, a figure that's negligible compared to the 15,000 to 17,000 females yearly sex trafficked into neighboring Finland. No other country, nor any other social experiment, has come anywhere near Sweden's promising results.



Legalization and/or regulation of prostitution, according to the study, led to:

A dramatic increase in all facets of the sex industry,
A dramatic increase in the involvement of organized crime in the sex industry,
A dramatic increase in child prostitution,
An explosion in the number of foreign women and girls trafficked into the region, and
Indications of an increase in violence against women

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/000107

Even in the Netherlands, women and girls who sell their bodies are routinely threatened, beaten, raped, and terrorized by pimps and customers. In a recent criminal trial, two German-Turkish brothers stood accused of forcing more than 100 women to work in Amsterdam's red-light district (De Wallen). According to the attorney who represented one of the victims, most of these women come from families marred by incest, alcohol abuse, and parental suicide. Or they come from countries in Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia and have fallen victim to human trafficking, lured by decent job offers or simply sold by their parents.

These women are Amsterdam's leading tourist attraction (followed by the coffee shops that sell marijuana). But an estimated 50 to 90 percent of them are actually sex slaves, raped on a daily basis with police idly standing by. It is incomprehensible that their clients are not prosecuted for rape, but Dutch politicians argue that it cannot be established whether or not a prostitute works voluntarily. Appalled by their daily routine, police officers from the Amsterdam vice squad have asked to be transferred to other departments. Only this year, the city administration has started to close down some brothels because of their ties to criminal organizations.

[dorktv]

29. weird, usually legalization gets rid of the criminal element.

[niyad]

33. read the whole article--fascinating.

[seabeyond]

34. no. people keep saying it as if it is a fat. but with a simple google

i learned it was SURPRISINGLY the opposite.

[dorktv]

49. Did with alcohol, no more gangsters there.

Well, they still have some moonshiners but they were never really gangsters.

[niyad]

32. unless I am missing something here, the article you cite doesn't support your assertions. Hell,

even the part you quote doesn't support your assertions.

Sweden's Groundbreaking 1999 Legislation

In 1999, after years of research and study, Sweden passed legislation that a) criminalizes the buying of sex, and b) decriminalizes the selling of sex. The novel rationale behind this legislation is clearly stated in the government's literature on the law:

"In Sweden prostitution is regarded as an aspect of male violence against women and children. It is officially acknowledged as a form of exploitation of women and children and constitutes a significant social problem... gender equality will remain unattainable so long as men buy, sell and exploit women and children by prostituting them."

In addition to the two pronged legal strategy, a third and essential element of Sweden's prostitution legislation provides for ample and comprehensive social service funds aimed at helping any prostitute who wants to get out, and additional funds to educate the public. As such, Sweden's unique strategy treats prostitution as a form of violence against women in which the men who exploit by buying sex are criminalized, the mostly female prostitutes are treated as victims who need help, and the public is educated in order to counteract the historical male bias that has long stultified thinking on prostitution. To securely anchor their view in firm legal ground, Sweden's prostitution legislation was passed as part and parcel of the country's 1999 omnibus violence against women legislation.

An Early Obstacle in the Path

Interestingly, despite the country's extensive planning prior to passing the legislation, the first couple years into this novel project nothing much happened at all. Police made very few arrests of johns and prostitution in Sweden, which had previously been legalized, went on pretty much as it had gone on before. Naysayers the world over responded to the much publicized failure with raucous heckling, "See? Prostitution always has been, and it always will be."

But eminently secure in the thinking behind their plan, the Swedes paid no heed. They quickly identified, then solved the problem. The hang-up, the place where their best efforts had snagged, was that law enforcement wasn't doing it's part. The police themselves, it was determined, needed in-depth training and orientation to what the Swedish public and legislature already understood profoundly. Prostitution is a form of male violence against women. The exploiter/buyers need to be punished, and the victim/prostitutes need to be helped. The Swedish government put up extensive funds and the country's police and prosecutors, from the top ranks down to the officer on the beat, were given intensive training and a clear message that the country meant business. It was then that the country quickly began to see the unequaled results.

Today, not only do the Swedish people continue to overwhelming support their country's approach to prostitution (80% of people in favor according to national opinion polls), but the country's police and prosecutors have also come around to be among the legislation's staunchest supporters. Sweden's law enforcement has found that the prostitution legislation benefits them in dealing with all sex crimes, particularly in enabling them to virtually wipe out the organized crime element that plagues other countries where prostitution has been legalized or regulated.

. . . . . .

again, unless I am reading this incorrectly, your statement is BS.

[seabeyond]

35. The exploiter/buyers need to be punished, and the victim/prostitutes need to be helped.

i dont get what you are saying. what am i missing

[niyad]

39. you said THIS:

serious dent in and/or end human trafficking ...legalization increases it
all the nations that have legalized it are struggling with the increase. sweden had it legalized and revamped theirs laws recently because of problems. legalization doesnt appear to be the easy answer

and yet even the part of the article you quoted does not bear you out, nor does the rest of the article.

[kevinbgoode]

26. Hahaha...I did laugh a bit at this part. . .

"The businessman declined to divulge the name of their new hunka burning love. Nor would the Davis' make Markus available for interviews.

Perhaps that's because Markus made some cringeworthy remarks in the Details interview, calling himself a pioneer and likening himself to civil rights hero Rosa Parks.
Parks, however, never did porn - or discriminate."



Wow...he really is a pioneer. . .haha.

[Bluebear]

40. 'likening himself to civil rights hero Rosa Parks'

Oh, definitely!

(Wow.)

[marshall]

56. Yeah, the Rosa Parks reference is a little strange

But on the plus side, at least he knows who she is.

[Number23]

27. Yuck.

[eShirl]

30. pass

[Bluebear]

37. Short and elegant.

Your answer, not him :)

[Lorien]

36. He barely looks 16 nt

[HughBeaumont]

45. There are still gigolos?

I don't get it.

I mean . . . aren't there like, an ABUNDANCE of males out there who would have sex for free anyway?

Maybe it's a safety issue.

[Kaleva]

46. Is that Levi?

[tango-tee]

47. He looks kinda ditzy.

Not my type of guy at all. But whatever, if he blows up somebody's skirt, go for it.

[MilesColtrane]

48. Kick for Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute.

The Pioneer

[Bigmack]

54. I was wondering if anybody ...

was old enough to remember Dan Akroyd doing Fred on SNL.

When he talked about the contract .. "professional hygeine, descretion, and animal satisfaction...." and "Rogering you roundly until morning" , I damn near died laughing, and then he started with the trusses.... I needed CPR!

[JTFrog]

55. Kick for Fred!

[Canuckistanian]

50. He shore has a purdy mouth

Does he like canoeing?

[azmouse]

52. ewwww...

No thank you.

God gave us shower massages for a reason.

[Blue-Jay]

53. LOL!

[Blasphemer]

57. As a fan of "Hung", I like my gigolos looking like Thomas Jane... nt

[omega minimo]

59. rather than a pasty, dull-eyed, overgrown baby?

[dustbunnie]

60. You got good taste! ;-)

[calico1]

61. Uh..no thanks...

First of all he looks the same age as my nephews!

Secondly, he looks like he was stationed on the Enterprise.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

62. Another victim of the matriarchy!!!!

Someone needs to edjumucate this young victim!

[newspeak]

63. well, just think of it as another career opportunity

Just today, the news was stating that Las Vegas is at 13.1% unemployment and the rest of the state is at 13%--woohoo, we beat California!!!!!

[seabeyond]

64. good point

have you seen the responses on the three or four threads, lounge and gd, last couple days.

not a single female poster i have read is even a little interested in this dude. most responses, .... eeeew. i was wondering, why consistently, women are turned off by this guy. and you may have given the answer. there isnt the matriarchy. the concept of paying to use another, and another willing to be used in such a manner is not.... appealing.