![]() Like other close-contact industries such as massage therapy and dental services, they contend brothels should be allowed to reopen with protective measures. While the business of legal bordellos may seem incompatible with social distancing, sex workers and brothel owners say that’s not the case. Those in the industry say many of the licensed prostitutes, who work as independent contractors, have struggled to qualify for unemployment benefits since closures began last March and some have opted to take their work into the shadows, offering sex illegally. Legal brothels have been shuttered for nearly a year, leaving sex workers to offer less-lucrative alternatives like online dates or nonsexual escort services. These days, even in the state known for sin, the business is taboo. (Alice Little via AP)īefore the coronavirus pandemic, tourist-dependent Nevada had a notorious attraction: It was the only place in America where someone could legally pay for sex. ![]() Little was working at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in Carson City before the pandemic. Sex worker Alice Little poses for a picture in Bend, Ore., in 2020.
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