{"id":23941,"date":"2019-04-16T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=23941"},"modified":"2019-04-16T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:30:22","slug":"winter-is-coming-to-pahrump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/winter-is-coming-to-pahrump\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is coming &#8230; to Pahrump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BabsgCQhpu4\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> returned with an exposition-heavy season opener. No word yet on whether it dampened business at <strong>Nevada<\/strong> brothels but they&#8217;ve evidently been taking some inspiration from the <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em> saga. According to a press release from <strong>Sheri&#8217;s Ranch<\/strong> in <strong>Pahrump<\/strong>, the HBO series &#8220;has had a considerable and positive impact on the brothel\u2019s business.&#8221; (If <em>Rome<\/em> had done the same, it would still be on cable.) Bordellos figure heavily in <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> particularly those of the late <strong>Lord Peytr &#8220;Littlefinger&#8221; Baelish<\/strong> &#8220;and his brothels were often set pieces for the show\u2019s political intrigue and sexually explicit encounters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have a brothel so prominently featured in a pop culture hit was a <!--more-->godsend for us,\u201d said <strong>Madam Dena<\/strong>. &#8220;<em>Game of Thrones <\/em>inadvertently assisted in promoting legal brothels like Sheri\u2019s Ranch not only by having Littlefinger\u2019s brothels as settings for the action, but also by showcasing some of the hottest couplings, threesomes and orgies ever depicted onscreen. Watching the show was sometimes like an advertisement for brothels.&#8221; Even more, customers started wanting to act out their <em>GoT<\/em>-fueled fantasies (one hopes that few of them were inspired by <strong>Dothraki<\/strong> customs). Customers want prostitutes to dress up as\u00a0<strong>Daenerys Targaryen<\/strong> and <strong>Sansa Stark<\/strong>, and to be trussed in the dungeon like\u00a0<strong>Theon Greyjoy<\/strong>. Fortunately, they leave\u2014unlike Theon\u2014with their private parts intact.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUQUmQhO2Dw\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a &#8220;safe word,&#8221; perhaps &#8220;<strong>White Walker<\/strong>.&#8221; Lest <strong>Cersei Lannister<\/strong> fans feel left out, the &#8220;Walk of Shame&#8221; is &#8220;tremendously popular,&#8221; for those who want offal thrown at them to fuel their need for degradation. &#8220;While we used to put dog collars on clients and walk them though the brothel\u2019s bar to appease their humiliation fetish,\u00a0<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0took humiliation to a whole new level,\u201d says sex worker <strong>Allisson<\/strong>.\u00a0\u201cSince season five, we now have to be ready for erotic humiliation that involves parading our consenting client, in various stages of undress, around the entirety of our twenty-acre property for all of our guests to see.\u201d The only downside of <em>GoT<\/em>? \u201cWith this season marking the end of the series, it\u2019s disheartening that soon we won\u2019t have any new\u00a0<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0related fetishes for our clients to discover and explore.&#8221; Well, all good things must come to a\u00a0conclusion, hopefully one that finds <strong>Tyrion Lannister<\/strong> on the winning side.<\/p>\n<p>* Internet-betting analysts are making heavy weather over a &#8220;record month&#8221; in <strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong>. Big deal. Sports betting&#8217;s only been in business there since January. The latest numbers show $44.5 million in wagers and $5.5 million in revenue. The business is ramping up <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Rivers-Casino-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Rivers-Casino-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Rivers-Casino-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Rivers-Casino.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>quickly but it&#8217;s early days yet and Keystone State books are still coming on line. The commonwealth&#8217;s got a long way to go to catch <strong>New Jersey<\/strong>&#8216;s $372.5 million. As sports-betting analyst <strong>Dustin Gouker<\/strong> admits, \u201cThe growth of Pennsylvania\u2019s market is stunted without online sports betting. Online bets account for about 80 percent of New Jersey\u2019s handle. When the time comes that online bets are legalized and regulated in Pennsylvania, then the industry will be poised to challenge larger markets for supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, <strong>Rivers Casino<\/strong> ($12 million) is tops, followed by <strong>SugarHouse<\/strong> ($9 million), <strong>Parx Casino<\/strong> ($8 million), <strong>Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course<\/strong> ($5 million), <strong>Harrah&#8217;s Philadelphia<\/strong> ($4 million), <strong>South Philadelphia Race &amp; Sportsbook<\/strong> [owned by Parx] $3.5 million and <strong>Valley Forge Casino Resort<\/strong> ($3 million split between two books). That still leaves a lot of heavyweights\u2014think <strong>Sands Bethlehem<\/strong>\u2014on the outside looking in, so we have a very incomplete idea of how potent the Pennsylvania market will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, Game of Thrones returned with an exposition-heavy season opener. No word yet on whether it dampened business at Nevada brothels but they&#8217;ve evidently been taking some inspiration from the A Song of Ice and Fire saga. 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