Adding Legalized Sin to Sin City

A lot of people are surprised to learn that prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas. It's legal in certain licensed brothels out of town, but not in the city itself. Of course, as you walk down Las Vegas Blvd. illegal aliens (the Mexican kind, not the Area 51 kind) try to hand you cards for various "escort" services, and I'm pretty sure they do more than escorting if you know what I mean.

Thanks to the decline in gaming revenue some Nevada legislators are considering legalizing, and of course taxing, prostitution in the tourist areas like Las Vegas and Reno:

Nevada officials may consider proposals to legalize and tax prostitution in Las Vegas, Reno, and other areas of the state where it is illegal.

State Sen. Bob Coffin, D-Las Vegas, an insurance broker and book dealer who heads the Senate Taxation Committee, and others in the Legislature are mulling the possibility to bolster state coffers during a time of severe revenue shortfalls.

Prostitution is legal in many of Nevada’s rural counties, but state law prohibits it in larger urban areas, such as Las Vegas and Reno, and counties with populations in excess of 400,000.

“The most naive person on the planet would believe there’s no prostitution going on in the urban areas,” Coffin told the Associated Press. “It’s going on now unregulated and unsafe. I think it’s an idea worth entertaining.”

Somehow I don't think that would be a healthy development. Before you know it every hotel would have a spa/brothel of their own.

I wonder how much you'd have to gamble to be "comped" for that?