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Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 | 11:15 p.m.
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The Henderson City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to adopt an ordinance that will create stricter rules for massage parlors.
The ordinance aimed at preventing massage parlors and reflexology establishments — which provide pressure-point massages on the hands and feet — from serving as fronts for prostitution.
It bans the use of tinted glass on exterior windows and states that employees must wear clothing that “fully cover from a point, not to exceed four inches about the center of the kneecap to the base of the neck.”
The ordinance stipulates that clothing worn by employees cannot be transparent and must cover the genitals, buttocks and breasts. It restricts hours of operation for massage parlors from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Councilwoman Gerri Schroder said there are many massage parlors in Henderson that conduct business legally. Schroeder said she hopes the ordinance bolsters their image as legitimate businesses.
“It will take the concerns away from the other tenants in the building and from families in the area,” she said.
Councilwoman Debra March said she voted in favor of the ordinance because Henderson is a family friendly community. Residents shouldn’t have to worry about illegal activity going on near their neighborhoods, she said.
Debra March
The ordinance makes Henderson’s massage parlors more highly regulated than those in the rest of the Las Vegas valley.
“I think it’s part of the progress of our city,” March said, adding that Henderson holds influence as the second-largest city in Nevada.
“It’s important to make sure that we have the highest standard for behavior,” she said.
In passing the ordinance, Henderson will license about 50 massage parlors, according to a city representative.
March, Schroeder, and Councilman Steve Kirk voted in favor of the ordinance. Mayor Andy Hafen and Council member Kathleen Boutin were not present at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
let make prostitution legal in this city then we won't have any problem and tax it
Shut down all 24 hour parlors and make sure everyone can pass a citizenship test and speak english.
dress codes for employees of private businesses, debra? You voted for this, us voters will throw you and your prudish policies on your head. Debra March enjoy now, come election time you will be out. What a joke.
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Who benefits from this?
i read the city of henderson website, this debra march is a realtor. What a suprise, realtors becoming small town politicians.
If I want to go get a rub and tug at 3am after a night of partying that is my business.
If Debra wants to act like such a prude than she needs to move back east, she is out of touch with the locals.
"The ordinance stipulates that clothing worn by employees cannot be transparent and must cover the genitals, buttocks and breasts".
So if a guy has his shirt off, he's under arrest? Hello? He can walk down the street without a shirt in the Summer, but if he walks into a massage den of iniquity, he's run down by the Vice Squad?
This is like an episode of F Troop in the Wayback machine. What in God's name are we doing, living in the 19th Century? Pretty soon, Henderson will bar birth control, and have polygamists with 20 kids walking the streets of their decrepit downtown . Jesus, maybe next we'll have Jed Clampitt as mayor, and Elly May as the blonde councilwoman. Wait a minute, we already do....
I just love conservatives like this, who complain about big government and government interference and then vote for government specified uniforms for employees. I live in Summerlin so I need help from you all in Henderson to vote these types out of office.
Like someone else said, who benefits from this?
Gotta love the weed smoking liberals posting anger all over the web about topics like this. America has values fools, you want filth go to another country.
A dress code is crossing the line bordering on discriminatory.
I do not believe in the "make it legal and tax it" statement. We do not need additional taxes to make it legal.
I'm fine for making it legal if the people vote and change the law. Then, there should only be certain districts that have been allocated for such activity.
The only "tax" that should ever be paid is income tax, as required.
The REPORTER got this story all wrong! With a little digging it was easy to find that the dress code for the EMPLOYEES, not the customers, has ALWAYS been the law in Henderson, nothing changed! City of Las Vegas has already made all of these same changes so Henderson is not the strictest or any different than the rest of the valley. Don't always believe what you read as gospel. I think they were trying to sensationalize a boring article.
Goodbye civil liberties, hello Henderson. You've got to love how every time someone wants to force through unpopular legislation they freeze opposition by using the words "kids" or "families".
Naturally, every adult who grew up in Henderson is damaged goods due to these establishments which have been there for the past 50 years. As is every kid who has grown up in Europe and is now a traumatized adult due to seeing naked people on tv and on beaches, along with places of prostitution.
What's next Henderson? What other liberties can you hit? Let's get rid of some books in the libraries! It'll help protect the kids. It'll be good for families. Lets pass a law banning the New York Times and Newsweek from newsstands. Lets pass a law making Fox News the only approved news carrier. Lets outlaw any language other than English to be spoken in the city. It's all about the kids and families after all.
figsybigsy, davidwayneosedach, 1youngguy, nednougat, vegaslen -- what you guys said!
vegasj -- at last, a bigot who can actually spell!
"If built in great numbers, motels will be used for nothing but illegal purposes." -- J. Edgar Hoover
Why would I drive to Henderson for a rub and tug when I can just find plenty of spots on Sahara and for less money?? Not to mention a couple spots here in NLV that even have European women.
Thanks Las Vegas for not even thinking of changing your rules, we love our jack shacks on Spring Mountain, Shara, Charelston.. I have a "bad back" and "stiff neck" and use these establishments regularly and do not want anything to change!
"Councilwoman Gerri Schroeder said there are many massage parlors in Henderson that conduct business legally."
Sure-maybe 1 in 50?
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Based on her own requirements and picture shown above "fully cover from a point, not to exceed four inches about the center of the kneecap to the base of the neck." she is clearly committing a crime herself by exposing herself below the neckline and should therefore be arrested and cited for public indecency. I have seen the way some of these real estate agents dress when showing a house, maybe we should make a law against that too! What a hypocrite.
Um, VegasJ: If we want filth, we go to Las Vegas. What does on here stays here, remember? That's how this city promotes itself, and that's how this city manages to MAKE MONEY. Perhaps it is you who should move to another city if you're not happy here.
If you want filth Teaser, go to the brothels where it is legal. Last I look, the filth going on in these massge parlors is NOT legal. Ask Gillespie. he even lives in strip clubs trying to catch the filth.
Ummmm...Do I have to say it again and again? These are NOT Henderson rules regarding the dress code requirements! They are the law for the entire state of NV per NRS and the massage therapy board. The ENTIRE state has the SAME dress requirements!!!! Henderson changed their code to MATCH Las Vegas and the hours that they can be open. Get the facts straight and then you can complain intelligently. Don't be an uneducated commentating lemming.
I'd say something about the length of some one's anatomy and how it is designed perfectly to stick into someone else's business, but that would be a personal attack, or I'd say something about a certain flock of people imposing their morality on others, (but you can't mention that group) oh well I tried, I guess I'll "Cruise" over to to another part of the web that is a little more edgy...
What problems have these massage parlors been causing????
We do have to do smth to make sure the natioin is safe. Things when kids are welcome to ugly, amoral Lady Ga-Ga show in Palms should make us think about future of our nation. We will go downhill by letting everything go. Enough of NVL, porn, "massage" services for narrow places... People, there is other life around us, look at the stars at night. Read, swim, grow kind well-bred kids.Why shamlessly anounce dirty intersts? You are free to do what you want but why to make everybody believe sex with first you meet is a good thing to do if you only want it? Grow up, please.
Where will I get my HJ's now, huh? YOU TELL ME WHERE.
The Las Vegas Sun should have a poll.
Should Prostituion be legal in parts of Las Vegas?
svtaet27 -- what?
Wallbanger -- I believe oathkeepers.org is only for law enforcement, not city council people.
your point -- they all take oaths of office to support, etc., the Constitutions -- is a good one. And many of them still do the Pledge of Allegiance which ends with "and liberty and justice for all." Empty words for them since no one holds them to their oaths.
I just don't get it. Why are we wasting time on the massage parlors and not just legalizing prostitution. Now if you give massages you need to dress like a Morman prairie woman in order to give a massage, doors can't have locks on them. I don't know about you but when I get a massage and I'm lying there exposed I want the door locked.
Just legalize prostitution and save us the taxpayers a ton of money prosecuting the men who buy and the women who sale. Legalizing it make it safer for the women and men. It gets them off the streets and regulates it so everyone is healthy.
Heck watch Cathouse on HBO. There are a lot of taxpaying dollars to be made and plenty of men and soon to be women to be paying. Get over yourselves and quite trying to pass your moral church judgments on everyone.
Minni10book -- all good points. I have to wonder at what point our national body politick changed from leave the people be to this obsession with what be the people doing. The bottom line is usually revenue.
Looks like you've been lurking on that polygamist story.
Calling this woman a conservative is patently false. You libs need to learn what conservatism is. This is a very 'progressive' ordinance. No true conservative would support this socialist government oppression.
Uniform mandates - socialist
Setting standards for behavior - socialist
Assuming guilt without the breaking of law - socialist
Requiring window tinting - socialist
This is a liberal ordinance ... not conservative.
Wow! My goodness, in these hard economic times, LEADERS ARE REDUCING ECONOMIC FREEDOM INSTEAD OF MAKING A BETTER BUSINESS FRIENDLY PLACE!!!! Are they insane!!???
Whatever it is, THERE ARE TONS OF CAPITALISTIC REFORMS NEEDED FOR THE VALLEY AND SOMEDAY I AM NOT JOKING.... I WILL START A REVOLUTION IN THE VALLEY!!! CAPITALISM FOR THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY HERE WE COME!! I AM DYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
Please people of the valley... help me make a difference!!!!
Besides for goodness sake, why cant these leaders just leave people alone... after all they say whatever happens here... STAYS here not LEAVES!!
I went to that place once. I'll never go back. They rubbed me the wrong way!
This is great...When they get busted in Hendertucky they will have to explain themselves to a ex stripper judge too..and she knows the dress code and family morals too...As far as The City Henderson goes I have have never seen such a pack of borderline 1939 german extremist whats next? a little book burning in the name of family values...our rights in this country disappearing...
I think we're overreacting to this ordinance. It simply requires that employees of massage parlors wear appropriate clothing when performing their services on half-drunk Henderson residents.
The overpaid vice police will then turn a "blind eye" away from them, especially if they're the ones laying on the table. As long as Momma doesn't have a clue..
Cyrus-- Im with you on this.. What does it pay by the hour or is it a salary job...Does the revolution pay any benefits like health care and vacation...What about a retirement fund...Also I cant be a part of the revolution on tuesdays and thursdays between 8pm and 10pm,,, thats only time D.March can give me my massage...
Is this going to affect Tiger Woods as a customer?
Debra - your a joke... I have values too but really who is this helping? And limiting the hours I think is bogus... This is a 24/7 town - I can get a carwash for heavens sake at 3am but not a massage...
"The overpaid vice police will then turn a "blind eye" away from them"....
I think you meant they will then turn a "round eye" away from them.
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Darn it... I wish I could remember what I wrote that upset some old fuddy duddy. It must have been pretty funny, as usual.
Ohhhhh.... after a look at that picture of March, nowwwwww I remember!
WHAT !!!!! ..How come the city will not allow me to get a massage after 1000pm anymore from my favorite massage therapist ? ...Her name by the way is Yung Pu Tang.
She relaxes me before I head out to Sunset Station, just in time when the midnight bowling rates go in effect.
This really sucks.
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Darn, I missed the Needle's post that was removed before I got a chance to read it.
A little too much poking there Needle?
By the way, the article never mentioned how much they charge. Do they charge by the hour or by the minute. I only need about five minutes and hate to pay for an hour.
I had to pay my first wife for years for five minutes of pleasure and I don't want to get into that kind of situation again...
So the politicos have problems with Relexogists that are not licensed by the state, nor are they required to have any training and in knee jerk fashion, decide to lump them in with massage therapists. Massage therapists who spend upwards of $10,000 and close to a year in school for medical and massage training, then we submit to extensive background chacks by the state and FBI, $300 to take a national certification exam, and $400 for a state license. As previously stated, the state board already covers the conduct of massgae therapists quite extensively.
To the uneducated reporter: the term "Massage Parlor" went out of fashion in the 70s,we work in Day Spas and Medical clinics now. So before you decide to slander an entire profession with negative and missleading terms, do some research and publish the truth.
My favorite girl will now have to moonlight after 10:00 PM. Does "bodywork" places fall under the same ordinance, if not then change the name of the places to that and you'll have an excuse.
This is a joke, 10pm? Sin City my ass! It is pretty clear that most people are not in favor of such Nazi regulations but somehow these laws always get passed. I'm sick of hearing about "the kids" and "families". Henderson has some great parlors, not dirty like half the las vegas ones. Hope this doesn't put too many of them out of business! And this is certainly not a liberal ordinance. Although the conservatives always act like they are for less government they are always the ones trying to steal our rights and freedoms...
living in Vegas the new law just makes mpreviews.com the number one source to even find the right type of massage parlor in Henderson.