Jack Layton has my best wishes for a full and complete recovery from his prostate cancer.
Is it too soon yet to wonder if Jack will travel south for a vacation in the near future? Will he make a platform of his cancer to bang his drum about the glories of Canadian health care?
Or am I just being too cynical?
Sexual equality comes to Nevada! Men can now legally be prostitutes in that great state too.
Hurray. Just another reason to visit Las Vegas!
Men may now join the ranks of Nevada’s brothel prostitutes, after a unanimous decision today that added language to health codes so male sex workers could be tested for infectious diseases.
A brothel industry lobbyist — in what could be considered a befuddling double standard — bemoaned the change, comparing it to the industry’s “Pearl Harbor.” He managed to voice concerns about homosexual sex entering the industry without ever saying “gay sex” or “homosexual.”
Men were previously barred in Nevada from the oldest profession because codes specified that prostitutes must undergo “cervical” testing for sexually transmitted diseases, which ruled out men.
Bobbi Davis, owner of the Shady Lady Ranch, a small brothel near Beatty, wanted to add male prostitutes to her stable of sex workers.
And while there have been plans for brothels to hire men in the past, Davis made the first-ever request to have the Nevada State Board of Health add urethral exams to the guidelines. That allows male sex workers to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
Davis has said the men could start working at her five-bed brothel starting in the New Year. The male prostitutes will decide for themselves whether to accept male or female clients, she said, just as the female prostitutes do now.
