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Today, while being interviewed for a morning radio program, I was asked about how the ridiculously popular dating app Tinder is affecting my legal brothel businesses. I’ve never spoken about this subject before, but the conversation I had this morning has me thinking about how Tinder positively impacted Nevada’s legal prostitution industry — and why Nevada-style sex-for-pay is a better option for sexually active people looking for a hot hookup.

With over 100 million downloads and well over 10 million daily users, Tinder is pretty much the top dating application out there, and, let’s be honest, it’s primarily utilized by men and women looking for a quick lay. Tinder is like a worldwide singles bar that you can enter at any time — a meat-market that fits in your pocket — and it’s a platform that strongly encourages and helps facilitate casual sex encounters. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? At first glance Tinder may seem like a magic wand that can miraculously conjure up nookie whenever its users get the urge, but Tinder is no Bunny Ranch. The dating app is doing sex-seekers more harm than good, and I believe Tinder is one of the reasons why my prostitution business is on the upswing. Here are a couple of reasons why…

Tinder Increases the Rate of STD’s — My Brothels are Disease-Free

Tinder-inspired hookup culture is encouraging casual sex but not encouraging safe sex. I own two legal brothels in the Las Vegas area, the Love Ranch and Alien Cathouse. Over the past two years, business at these cathouses has been booming. One reason why so many Las Vegas tourists are frequenting my legal brothels is because Vegas reported a significant increase in sexually transmitted diseases from 2015 to 2016.

When this STD outbreak was first reported, I was baffled as to why it was happening. When one of my working girls explained to me how Tinder was reinventing the casual encounter, it rapidly became clear to me why dating apps are actually boosting the brothel business. The sexual stupidity Tinder encourages is not only causing an unprecedented and unnecessary STD epidemic in Sin City, but also frightening Vegas tourists. It’s easier than ever for Las Vegas vacationers to make the decision to visit my STD-free sex dens. Tinder has turned Vegas into a playground of disease and paranoia, so my medically-tested prostitutes are more in-demand than ever.

Tinder Reduces Self-Esteem — My Girls Boost Self-Esteem

Tinder allows users to quickly review dozens of profiles with one finger by simply “swiping.” A swipe to the right indicates interest, a swipe to the left is means rejection.

According to a 2016 study presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Tinder users have lower self-esteem than non-users. Because Tinder functions to encourage rapid rejection of people that users consider unattractive, the study found that “male and female users reported less satisfaction with their bodies and looks.”

This is horrible! Isn’t hooking up and having great sex supposed to make people feel good about themselves? No wonder men and women are flocking to my working girls. People are desperately seeking passionate lovers who will treat them with the respect they deserve as human beings. Tinder users want to be with sex partners who will boost their self-esteem, not destroy it. The beautiful women who work in my brothels are experts at treating their customers like they want, need, and deserve to be treated. When a customer leaves one of my establishments, he or she will have a spring in their step and will have the confidence to take on the world.

Tinder is at best an ineffective tool that harms the very people it’s designed to assist, and at worst a plague on mankind. I believe that we have yet to see the long-term negative psychological effects of Tinder on society. I’m just glad that I can provide a valuable service to the thousands of lost and dissatisfied Tinder users who visit my brothels every day. Maybe it’s time for me to finally launch my Bunny Ranch hookup app…

Dear Mayor Goodman,

My name is Dennis Hof, and I’m in the prostitution business. For nearly fifty years prostitution has been legal in many of Nevada’s rural counties in the form of licensed and regulated brothels, where sex workers practice their trade safely, profitably, and free from coercion. I own seven brothel licenses, more than anyone else in Nevada’s history — three of which are in Nye County near Las Vegas. 

I bought my first brothel, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, in the mid-1990’s and I’ve spent the better part of my life as the most outspoken figure in Nevada’s legal sex industry. I’ve had a long-running television program on HBO, written a book about my experiences, and I’m often in the media championing (or defending) Nevada’s unique and progressive prostitution laws.  

This platform has been my life’s work. I believe that I’ve changed the perception of American prostitution forever and brought Nevada’s brothels out of the shadows and into the limelight, where all Americans can see the good that these establishments do for sex workers, clients, business owners, and rural communities.

This past October, I turned seventy. While I’m proud to reflect on my accomplishments over the decades as a successful and uncompromising businessperson and legal sex work advocate, I’m saddened to realize how much work there is yet to be done. 

Recently a study from Arizona State University shined a bright light on the reality of Las Vegas sex trafficking victims. The study showed that, in 2014, two-thirds of victims were under the age of 18, and nearly half of these children were violently forced into sex slavery by coercive pimps who are often not convicted of any crime. The study revealed that victims were as young as 12 years old.

Our State’s most prized city is a cesspool of child sex trafficking, and it’s worse than any of us thought.

Las Vegas, with its “Sin City” reputation and “What happens here, stays here” slogan, is the top sex tourism destination in the United States. The casinos, hotels, and streets of Las Vegas are overflowing with criminal prostitutes, a good portion of them underage, ready to cater to the sexual desires of the city’s guests. The gaming industry passively enables pimps, as sex trafficking victims service the guests staying at the opulent adult theme parks Las Vegas is known for. 

Prostitution and gaming are why people come to Vegas, and both industries work together in harmony. So what if one of these industries is illegal and harms children? There are billions to be made!

The criminal sex trade in Las Vegas is indeed an estimated multi-billion dollar industry. It’s untaxed, unregulated, and it exploits children. The desire for pay-to-play sex in Las Vegas isn’t going to go away — ever. Prostitution is as much a part of the DNA of Las Vegas as the city’s gaming industry. So how do we cultivate a thriving Vegas economy and simultaneously stop sex trafficking? Well, America has made this mistake before. Remember Prohibition? 

From 1920 to 1933 it was illegal to make or sell alcoholic beverages in the U.S.  But did that stop people from drinking? Heck, no. Instead, the Immutable Law of Good Intentions kicked in, meaning we made what was perceived as a bad situation worse.

Once liquor became a crime, it didn’t stop people from drinking. Instead, criminals took over the business. It drove the consumption of alcohol by consenting adults in the freest country in the world underground, while giving rise to violent mobsters.

Bye-bye tax revenue; hello Murder, Inc.

Has the prohibition of prostitution stopped sex work in Sin City?  Absolutely not. Instead, we’ve driven the world’s oldest profession underground while giving rise to violent pimps.

Bye-bye tax revenue; hello child sex slaves.

Earlier in this decade, then-mayor Oscar Goodman advocated for discussing the possibility of allowing legalized prostitution in Clark County. He was brave enough to admit that the city has a profound sex trafficking problem, and bold enough to suggest that legalization may be a good solution. 

In light of this most recent study, I strongly feel that it’s high time we reopen the discussion on legalizing prostitution in Clark County. I invite you, Mayor Carolyn Goodman, to meet with me and tour my Love Ranch brothel near Las Vegas, so that I can dispel any of your misconceptions about the merits of legal prostitution. Then, perhaps together, we can lead the charge against sex trafficking, and usher in a new era of regulated, safe, and lucrative sex tourism in Las Vegas.

I’m proof that Nevada’s fifty-year legal prostitution experiment is an unqualified success. Let’s stop child sex trafficking in Las Vegas, increase tax revenue, and provide the city’s tourists with a safe and healthy adult entertainment experience. 

Las Vegas visitors want prostitution. Let’s give it to them, the right way.

Sincerely,

Dennis Hof

While First Lady Melania Trump files her third defamation suit against the Mail Online over a 2016 article that accused her of having once been a prostitute, I’m stepping up to clear her name once and for all, by offering free sex for life at my legal brothel to anyone who can prove Trump was a working girl.

I don’t believe she was a prostitute, and I’m going to get to the bottom of this by offering a prize worth millions to anyone with information about Melania’s professional sexual history — a lifetime supply of complimentary sex at my Bunny Ranch.

Understand this: There is NO WAY the First Lady could have been a sex worker…and I’m an expert!

Prostitutes are compassionate, warm women who are able to convincingly play the role of their client’s girlfriend.  Melania is an icy shrew who wears her emotions on her sleeve. She can’t even convince the American public that she isn’t absolutely disgusted by her husband — just look at her face in that viral inauguration video as she reacts to the President, absolute detestation.

There is a difference between a gold digger and a prostitute, and Melania Trump is no prostitute. She just doesn’t have what it takes to work at the Bunny Ranch.

Free sex at the Bunny Ranch is an offer that no person has ever refused, especially politicians, business leaders, and VIP types who may know a little about the President’s wife.  If I don’t get a response in a few weeks, my point is proven — she’s no hooker.

As far as the August 2016 story claiming she was a sex worker, I actually don’t see why the First Lady is so upset.

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s fake news, but the First Lady should be flattered to be called a sex worker. My working girls are empowered women who make a fine living on their own terms — and they never have to marry a man they detest in order to make ends meet. 

Photo of Melania Trump by DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons