WOODY BASS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The phrase “sex sells” usually has to do with advertising.
The Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue, for example, is full of scantily clad twenty-somethings using our hormones to control us like puppets so we will fill our closets with their clothes.
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I personally read it for the articles. (Oh, wait, there are no articles, ahem.)
And we can’t forget the Calvin Klein models who apparently are told to not leave much to the imagination.
But I’m not going to complain.
“Sex sells” now seems to have taken a more literal meaning here in Gwinnett, where the world’s oldest profession seems to be thriving.
As of Nov. 21, 2006, Gwinnett County had prosecuted 81 prostitution cases. And nearly two out of three prostitution arrests last year came out of Gwinnett Village.
As a matter of fact, one of the first acts of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District was to clear some underbrush from an area near I-85 and Indian Trail Lilburn Road known for squatters, drug dealers and prostitutes.
Approximately 125 people were arrested for offering to pay for sex last year in the area of Brook Hollow Parkway and Indian Trail Lilburn Road.
In December, the AJC Gwinnett News Gwinnett reported that Norcross Police monitors Craigs-list ads that offer “erotic services” in exchange for “125 kisses” or “150 roses” as a donation for an hour of service.
More recently, Lisa Ann Taylor, a former Penthouse Pet who is now being called the “Mansion Madam”, has been charged with running a call-girl operation from her upscale Sugarloaf Country Club home. Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter has said she and Nicole A. Probert charged as much as $5,000 to $10,000 for sex acts.
Porter says the women’s customers are doctors, lawyers and businessmen.
It sounds like the perfect script for a modern version of the Dolly Parton/Burt Reynolds classic, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” doesn’t it?
Given her recent antics, I think Britney Spears has appropriately positioned herself to play Lisa Ann Taylor in the role of the movie musical “The Mansion Madam of Sugarloaf.”
To research her role Britney should follow “Miss Lisa Ann” around as the former Penthouse Pet visits dance clubs in Detroit and her native Canada to raise funds to pay her legal fees.
Seriously though, if appearances (and police) are correct, Gwinnett has an emerging growth industry. Investors would be drooling at the thought of the revenue that could be generated - if it were legal, of course.
Are you surprised about reports of prostitution in Gwinnett? Do you think it’s prevalent here? Who would you cast in the movie musical “The Mansion Madam of Sugarloaf”?
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The phrase “sex sells” usually has to do with advertising.
The Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue, for example, is full of scantily clad twenty-somethings using our hormones to control us like puppets so we will fill our closets with their clothes.
bb
I personally read it for the articles. (Oh, wait, there are no articles, ahem.)
And we can’t forget the Calvin Klein models who apparently are told to not leave much to the imagination.
But I’m not going to complain.
“Sex sells” now seems to have taken a more literal meaning here in Gwinnett, where the world’s oldest profession seems to be thriving.
As of Nov. 21, 2006, Gwinnett County had prosecuted 81 prostitution cases. And nearly two out of three prostitution arrests last year came out of Gwinnett Village.
As a matter of fact, one of the first acts of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District was to clear some underbrush from an area near I-85 and Indian Trail Lilburn Road known for squatters, drug dealers and prostitutes.
Approximately 125 people were arrested for offering to pay for sex last year in the area of Brook Hollow Parkway and Indian Trail Lilburn Road.
In December, the AJC Gwinnett News Gwinnett reported that Norcross Police monitors Craigs-list ads that offer “erotic services” in exchange for “125 kisses” or “150 roses” as a donation for an hour of service.
More recently, Lisa Ann Taylor, a former Penthouse Pet who is now being called the “Mansion Madam”, has been charged with running a call-girl operation from her upscale Sugarloaf Country Club home. Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter has said she and Nicole A. Probert charged as much as $5,000 to $10,000 for sex acts.
Porter says the women’s customers are doctors, lawyers and businessmen.
It sounds like the perfect script for a modern version of the Dolly Parton/Burt Reynolds classic, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” doesn’t it?
Given her recent antics, I think Britney Spears has appropriately positioned herself to play Lisa Ann Taylor in the role of the movie musical “The Mansion Madam of Sugarloaf.”
To research her role Britney should follow “Miss Lisa Ann” around as the former Penthouse Pet visits dance clubs in Detroit and her native Canada to raise funds to pay her legal fees.
Seriously though, if appearances (and police) are correct, Gwinnett has an emerging growth industry. Investors would be drooling at the thought of the revenue that could be generated - if it were legal, of course.
Are you surprised about reports of prostitution in Gwinnett? Do you think it’s prevalent here? Who would you cast in the movie musical “The Mansion Madam of Sugarloaf”?
