The Track: Police slow to change tactics as sex trafficking persists on Bourbon
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Detroit strip clubs
"Once off stage, Naomi told the couple about the private rooms in the club – the place where they could “have a good time” without any interruptions from club management, according to an Office of Alcohol and Tobacco report detailing the October 2015 encounter. Naomi was trying to sell the couple on what’s known in Bourbon Street clubs as “the extras” – the acts dancers perform that go beyond lap dances, treading into the realm of illegal touching and prostitution"
Anyone ever heard of "the extras"?
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2…
Anyone ever heard of "the extras"?
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2…
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What could those be? Are they only available in the Bourbon Street clubs?
"...treading into the realm of illegal touching and prostitution"
I get it now. "the extras" sound ace!
I'll pick a girl I like and more often than not be walking up with her the next morning.
SJG
Hermetic Kabbalah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRLOLa18…
New Orleans doesn't really have the critical mass of population necessary (IMNSHO) to produce a viable and ongoing interesting vice trade. Too small a city, except for a few major events during the year. And, there are major problems with human trafficking, both moving into the city and moving through the city as a port of entry. Too much human rights concern among the enforcement community (especially Federal). Over the past two or three decades, there have been times when local authorities "looked the other way" and times when local authorities "really clamped down" on the subject of strippers and similar doing more than mere shimmy or lap-dance. I've experienced full service and BJ and HJ and generally found that the information on the usual internet review forums was adequate to aid me in avoiding any sticky situations.
I would advise any out-of-towner to NOT try to "judge" on the basis of his own experience, or to try to use his "street smarts", because the city has a different vibe from most of the rest of North America, to the point that change-overs in demeanor, neighborhood, safety levels, are often not noticed by people who might otherwise handle themselves quite well in a major hard-knocks urban area like East St. Louis or Detroit. Even on the main tourist drag, Bourbon Street, you can find yourself in a crowd of toughs who are going to snag your wallet and pop you in the jaw, and you won't know how you got into the trouble until well after it's too late. Of course, it all depends on the night of the week, the location in specific, how drunk or sober you are, whether you're with a group, what you already know about the layout, which club's bouncers are the good guys as opposed to the bad guys, what kind of illicit trade you are actually trying to engage in, all those specifics. But don't just go by the seat of your pants, don't just fly it alone, please, NOLa has very very rough edges.
Frankly, you really shouldn't come to New Orleans for the vice trade. It's not really the City That Care Forgot any more. In the 1800s, New Orleans was the nation's third or fourth largest city, and sometimes was the most important port city, certainly the most important for all of the "Dixie" area of the South, so it developed a well-earned reputation. But after World War II the city's relative size and importance simply dwindled slowly, and, particularly after the oil boom-and-bust of the mid- to late-1970s, there just weren't any major national-sized players remaining in New Orleans. It's a shadow of its former self, and its reputation as a Sin City is no longer merited.
Which is kind of too bad, I have to admit, but also quite reasonable, given the size of population, the smaller amount of business that now goes on here, the fact that it's a fly-over rather than fly-to destination except for particular events, and even then, the fact that some of the events tend to drag into town huge unruly crowds of lower-class cheapskates.
'Ya, think? It seems like they're looking for violations (prostitution, drugs, touching, sales tax underreporting, workmens comp issues) for everything EXCEPT trafficking.
Everyone seems to be bleeding heart for the 19 y/o who jumped out of that car and died. That's bad and it's sad, but it seems to be irrationally driving all of this misguided LEO effort. It's like keystone cops out there identifying everything except trafficking. Maybe they should use Traffic Dept instead of Vice?? Hey, people listen to those cops with the whistles and white gloves!
SJG
Walt Disney certainly tried to recreate it.
Likely the most interesting place in the entire South.
Sorry to hear about the level of danger.
I do want to be using NOLA as a base of operations.
SJG
Jazz Funeral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngLB6pUp…
Here is a shorter clip. Looks like NOLA, I believe that it likely really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZPZWZDl…
SJG