Sometimes incidents occur that just seem so unfair that your blood begins to boil. One such incident is happening right now, in Las Vegas.  Las Vegas is the major metropolitan area within Clark County, Nevada.  Clark County is the regulatory body that governs much of what happens in Vegas, including a whole lot of dumb ass rules about liquor and boobs.  Now, it seems Clark County is on the warpath against the Red Rooster, a swingers club that has been in existence in Las Vegas since 1982.  The article below appears on a website called americanlowlife.com, that reports on the swinging and lifestyle scene in Vegas, amongst other things.  But before you read this article, let me tell you a little about Vegas.  Here are the crime statistics for Vegas for 2008:

Violent Crimes     13,324
Murders                   120
Rape                       729
Robbery               4,932
Assault                 7,543
Property Crimes  53,160
Burglary             14,903
Theft                 26,856
Car Theft           11,402

That’s right.  106,000 nasty immoral hurtful crimes against citizens and visitors. But to Clark County, it’s really more important to chase consenting adults who want to have sex in a private club. 

If reading this article makes you as mad as it does us, we urge you to email the people in charge of Clark County. Tell them to lay off the Red Rooster, or Vegas is off of your places to visit.  Here is who to contact:

Rory Reid,  Chairman, Clark County  Board   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Susan Brager, Vice Chairman, Clark County Board  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Virginia Valentine, County Manager   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Now, the article from American LowLife:


Clark County thinks the Red Rooster is a Public Nuisance--see below--but first, a bit of background...

There's a swinger's club in Las Vegas that is, as they proudly proclaim on their website, "world famous". While other sex clubs in town use that catch-phrase and, due to the global reach of the internet and the fact that Las Vegas tourists come from far and wide it is probable that other similar venues are, indeed, known throughout the world to some degree or other, the venerable Red Rooster likely has the most legit claim to the title, particularly since the club has been around for nearly 30 years and for a good part of that time was the only game of its kind in town.

The Rooster Has Changed A Bit

The Red Rooster has changed quite a bit from when it first opened in 1982, going from 850 sq. feet to it's current size of nearly 13,000 sf. Much of the clientele type has changed, too, over 28 years as the Rooster used to be THE place to swing back in the late 80's/early 90's, mainly because it was the only place to swing. Back in the day, RR used to attract some of the most attractive and even well-known Vegans and visitors alike as word spread around the then very loose-knit lifestyle community, generally by word of mouth or, possibly, via printed publications (old-timers: remember those b&w classified sex ad rags?). If one hung around the Rooster on a Friday or Saturday night near the midnight hour, one was able to see all sorts of fine talent rolling in for a look-see and maybe some playtime.

The house itself hasn't changed a whole lot in the past 20 or so years but, due to other party houses and sex clubs that have opened in the past decade or so and, perhaps more importantly, due to the penetration of the internet with all its lifestyle connection sites, finding and meeting the desired body type, age and look has become a lot easier. There was no longer the need to wade through the scores of single males in towels or the morbidly obese wearing even less than that to find one (or more) play partners that fit one's personal tastes.

This is not to say that most of the many single males at RR wear nothing but towels--this isn't the case--but there are certainly some that do, along a few exceptionally obese, and the woefully skinny and pretty much everything in between as the Rooster prides itself in accepting most anyone as long as they follow the rules. Since a wide variety of body, age and sexual preference offerings in one place isn't everyone's cup of tea, many people have turned to the internet's specialization ability which allows for "birds of a feather to flock together" resulting in clubs and mixers and parties that feature, well, birds of a feather (that do a lot of "flocking", I tell ya).

This hasn't stopped the Rooster, though, as it now offers it's bedrooms and orgy rooms and indoor pool and dance floor and dry bars to patrons seven nights a week. The owners of the club--77 year old Mike Borchers and his wife Chris--have never made any attempt to hide the fact that sex goes on at the Red Rooster. You can read about it in a 7-year-old article in the Review-Journal where Mike proclaims it proudly.

The County

Unfortunately, this is one of the problems Clark County has with the place, that of consenting adults actually getting naked and having sex with people other than their spouses. Oh, they say it's not exactly that, really, as they claim to be more concerned with the idea that it is an unlicensed business venture rather than just a private party where invited guests go to interact via social and sexual intercourse.

We recently got our grubby li'l hands on some legal documents which show the County's stance. The Red Rooster has fought off many legal challenges over the years always claiming that they have the right to allow invited guests into their home for private parties and if the guests want to "donate" in order to help out with party expenses then so much the better. But Clark County isn't buying that argument and claims that through their observations either by official visits or undercover raids (page 43 of the doc includes the reports by the undercover officer) to the club and has declared the Red Rooster a "public nuisance".

The County has stated that the Rooster is a profit-making venture, i.e. a business open to the general public, that the guests aren't really invited and that a mandatory donation isn't a donation at all--it's an entry fee--so the club must be a business and along with that there has to be the requisite licenses and permits and all that rot. But, since ya can't get an actual license for a sex club from the County what's a lifestyle entrepreneur to do? I mean, lifestylers are gonna play no matter what anyone says (even if some people find our lifestyle "objectionable" as Borchers rightly states) and we don't mind paying, er, ah donating if someone goes to all the work to set up the environment for us so there's always going to be a demand for a place to party. If the powers-that-be won't let us legally, then we're going to have to take things underground as far as we have to.

A Sex Club = Public Nuisance

Just what is a sex club, per the County's definition? Here is Clark County Code 30.08.030:
"Sex Club," including but not limited to any club, party, group, center, establishment, business, or parlor for swingers, adult encounters, adult social sexual encounters, partner-swapping, wife-swapping, or similar alternative lifestyle, means an establishment or business operated or maintained for the purpose of providing patrons the opportunity to voluntarily engage in and/or view live consensual sexual activity in exchange for money or any item of value that allows the patron to enter and remain on premises or which collects remuneration of any kind, including entrance fees, facility use fees, gratuities, fees for goods provided far in excess of their value, and/or donations. A sex club is a public nuisance per se.

So, there ya go. The places all you perverted lifestylers like to visit are public nuisances.

The Roster's Response

So, what is the Red Rooster going to do? Well, they've requested a "Summary Judgment", i.e.--and you legal beagles can correct me here--the defense (in this case) is requesting that the court render a verdict (a dismissal, they would hope) without having to go to trial as there are claims in the other party's assertions that are basically b.s. (they say).

In this case, RR feels the definition of Sex Club is vague and overbroad and threatens the Borchers' constitutionally protected rights to association and privacy. For example, "a home could be considered a sex club (by the above definition) if the owner hosted a pot luck dinner and two of the guests hugged in view of other guests and an anonymous complaint was filed" (grandma: watch those wild pot lucks, would ya?). So, if the definition of what exactly describes a sex club is vague then the conclusion "public nuisance" can't be valid and the case should be thrown out (which makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?).

While the Rooster demographic was not one this site ever catered to (although we do have several RR devotees on this site) and other swing venues might be a bit perturbed over this item on page 50 of the doc which the County came up with in their pile of evidence: "C. The (Red Rooster) website contains advertisements, items discrediting other sex clubs, list of events...", we are still pulling for the Red Rooster to win this battle as it will ultimately benefit all of us non-vanillas who just wanna have private, swingin' fun with other consenting adults.

You can read more background details on this matter by visiting www.americanlowlife.com.

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