Personally, the most offensive thing about Vegas are the quickie-marriage places. I think that’s perpetuating a system of female-enslavement!
Amanda Brooks
PS: My much longer take on Las Vegas/female degradation on my personal blog.
Filed under: Feminism
From Amanda’s Blog:
“To fight this feeling, all hotels on the strip should offer sexual services targeted to women tourists. With freedom to make asses of themselves, they might feel on more equal footing with their male civilian counterparts. And all hotels should offer some sort of Vegas-Sex 101 class for women. Something along the lines of “You’re in Vegas and you have a pussy – even the casinos are jealous.””
Yes! I love this idea. However, I think that the hotels should contract with the sex workers and WE should provide the workshops for women tourists!
Wait, that would mean paying sex workers for their work and knowledge. Wouldn’t that just degrade women tourists even more?😉
Las Vegas is quite progressive in that there are at least two strip clubs which offer male dancers for women (as well as the women for the men), and there are about 4 male review shows available and advertised on giant billboards.
A “How To” class on sex wouldn’t be a bad idea at all.
I’ve been hearing for year that the escort and stripping capital of North America is actually not Vegas, and not even Portland, but Montreal. Some articles:
http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2002/09/10/Features/Sex-And.The.City.Montreal.As.The.Hotbed.Of.Smut-269498.shtml
http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=2522
In the US, the Bible Belt does a pretty good job of providing sexual entertainment.
XX
I love Vegas, personally.
And I love all of you – in an existential/agape way of course. Good night.
Thank god casinos and resorts have realized that the Disney-fication of Las Vegas was a *really* bad idea and is definitely shifting itself towards what it was intended for: an adult playground.
The burlesque shows (2 now) I think also is a happy medium between the strip clubs and male revues.