LAS VEGAS - On Tuesday, November 15, Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem and former Metro PD Vice Officer Stavros Anthony will propose an update to the Las Vegas Municipal Code to require state licenses and county health cards for new massage therapists working outcall or in neighborhood shopping centers. His ordinance will require that all new applicants who wish to perform massage in hotel rooms or shopping centers obtain, possess, carry, or display a license issued by the Nevada Board of Massage Therapists.
The ordinance, if passed, is expected to slow down the human sex slave trafficking that reportedly brings hundreds of young Asian girls to Las Vegas to perform sexual services in strip malls often within feet of our schools, fast food restaurants, child care centers, and playgrounds.
Most taxi drivers will tell you that the majority of neighborhood massage parlors are fronts for prostitution. Many parlors and outcall services offer male patrons what is called a "Happy Ending," or in some cases a "Full Girlfriend Experience" for an extra fee. These specialties are not taught in accredited massage therapy schools.
Imagine the outcry if the Nevada State Board of Cosmetology ignored hundreds of beauty parlors employing unlicensed beauticians without health cards, or if the Nevada State Barbers’ Health and Sanitation Board ignored hundreds of barber shops employing unlicensed barbers without health cards! How long would the Governor sit back and allow these state boards to issue Nevada licenses based on certificates from out of state certificate mills? Well, that's exactly what he's now doing with the Nevada Board of Massage Therapists!
In 2007, I interviewed Lisa O. Cooper the Executive Director of the Nevada Board of Massage Therapists while she was attending a UNLV forum on the sex industry.
Steve Miller, is a former Las Vegas City Councilman. In 1991, the readers of the Las Vegas Review Journal voted him the “Most Effective Public Official” in Southern Nevada. Miller writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and political corruption for Rick Porrello’s AmericanMafia.com.
