Behind the Green Door
August 21, 2008 | 12:50
pm
I talked to a regular customer of the Green Door this morning. The Green Door is a club in Commercial Center known nationally for being a swingers club. The regular I spoke to had sex there on her last visit and watched other people have sex too. People have been having sex every single time she has been there. She did not see any workout equipment or restaurant food, but she did recall a Jacuzzi. That probably explains the spa license.
Anyway, the Sun today has a story about another proposed swingers club called Sextacy getting turned down for a business licence in the same strip mall, Commercial Center. The writer notes in the story: "the Green Door's business license says it's a restaurant, a healch club/spa, everything but a sex club." And yet the person I interviewed has been there numerous times and keeps finding people having sex and no restaurant. Meanwhile, the county has also recently shut down the Libertine, a commercial dungeon that briefly existed across from Wayne Newton's house.
And the convention business is feeling the county pinch as well. I interviewed one of the producers of the Strippers & Hustlers Ball taking place at the Orleans Arena over Labor Day weekend. He said the greatest difficulty was navigating all of the county licenses required to put on the event compared to San Francisco, where his parties usually take place.
So is Las Vegas cracking down on these "lifestyle" businesses? Hard to say. The event at the Orleans Arena wound up getting its country approval (albeit with restrictions on nudity and other things that probably pass unnoticed in San Francisco).
Meanwhile, the Green Door remains open for business. Still, if you want to know what that business does, don't go by what is on the county licence. You might think there was a restaurant, and that also leaves out all of the sex people are having there.
Anyway, the Sun today has a story about another proposed swingers club called Sextacy getting turned down for a business licence in the same strip mall, Commercial Center. The writer notes in the story: "the Green Door's business license says it's a restaurant, a healch club/spa, everything but a sex club." And yet the person I interviewed has been there numerous times and keeps finding people having sex and no restaurant. Meanwhile, the county has also recently shut down the Libertine, a commercial dungeon that briefly existed across from Wayne Newton's house.
And the convention business is feeling the county pinch as well. I interviewed one of the producers of the Strippers & Hustlers Ball taking place at the Orleans Arena over Labor Day weekend. He said the greatest difficulty was navigating all of the county licenses required to put on the event compared to San Francisco, where his parties usually take place.
So is Las Vegas cracking down on these "lifestyle" businesses? Hard to say. The event at the Orleans Arena wound up getting its country approval (albeit with restrictions on nudity and other things that probably pass unnoticed in San Francisco).
Meanwhile, the Green Door remains open for business. Still, if you want to know what that business does, don't go by what is on the county licence. You might think there was a restaurant, and that also leaves out all of the sex people are having there.
