Las Vegas Sun

April 30, 2024

Legal brothels in Nevada, even with clients like Lamar Odom, are on the wane

Nevada Brothel Love Ranch

Chris Carlson / AP

A sign advertises the Love Ranch brothel, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, in Crystal, where former NBA basketball player Lamar Odom was found unconscious the day before.

When Lamar Odom was found unconscious Tuesday inside a Nevada brothel, he’d wandered far off the beaten path of adult entertainment culture, back into an analog version of an increasingly high-tech sex-play universe. Like Wayne Newton and mobsters wielding tommy guns, the antics of the world’s oldest profession smack of a bygone era in Nevada. Brothels are under siege, more and more considered outdated and distasteful — even in the only state to sanction prostitution.

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