High fuel prices put pinch on Nevada brothels
by Martin Griffith
1010Wins (AP)
June 29, 2008
… In response to a 5 percent drop in business, the Shady Lady Ranch along U.S. 95 about 150 miles north of Las Vegas…offers special monthly discounts, including an offer of 45 minutes of services for $175 instead of the usual rate of $200.
Under a promotion under way at the Moonlite BunnyRanch near Carson City, the first 100 customers who arrive with government stimulus checks receive twice the services for the same regular price.
“We’re calling it double your stimulus,” said BunnyRanch owner Dennis Hof. “The brothel industry is having to get more creative just like all consumer products in America. Everybody has got to deal, and we’re doing the same thing.”
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