While brothels are not allowed to operate in Las Vegas, visitors to Vegas will likely notice they receive many flyers offering escort services. While these flyers may strongly imply that sex is on the offering, the flyers never explicitly state that the escort is a prostitute or that a client can pay for sex. The flyers cannot state this, because advertising the services of a prostitute or engaging in prostitution could result in legal trouble.
Escort services, on the other hand, can legally operate and there are even regulations within Clark County that establish specific guidelines for the operation of escrow services. Escorts are different from prostitutes, and are defined as persons who accompany others for hire in either public settings or private settings. Escorts are not supposed to engage in prostitution, and Clark County requires that escorts be licensed and possess work cards. If escorts engage in sexual conduct for money, they could be at risk of losing their license to work and could even face criminal charges.
This means that while you can hire an escort to spend time with you, including to come to your hotel to talk or to go to dinner with you, you should not solicit an escort for sex – and escorts should not offer sex in exchange for money. Trying to buy sex from an escort could result in solicitation charges and escorts offering sex for money could be charged with prostitution.
There are routine undercover stings that catch people, especially tourists, trying to solicit escorts for sex or that catch escorts who violate the law and provide sex. If you are caught up in a sting, you should contact a Las Vegas sexual crimes attorney.