Legal brothels in Nevada, even with clients like Lamar Odom, are on the wane

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A sign advertises the Love Ranch brothel, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, in Crystal, where former NBA basketball player Lamar Odom was found unconscious the day before.

Wed, Oct 14, 2015 (3:39 p.m.)

When Lamar Odom was found unconscious Tuesday inside a Nevada brothel, he’d wandered far off the beaten path of adult entertainment culture, back into an analog version of an increasingly high-tech sex-play universe. Like Wayne Newton and mobsters wielding tommy guns, the antics of the world’s oldest profession smack of a bygone era in Nevada. Brothels are under siege, more and more considered outdated and distasteful — even in the only state to sanction prostitution.

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