Escorting A Casino

This will be blunt.

Casinos attract some women who advertise themselves as ‘escorts’.
 
One definition of an escort is “...a woman paid by the hour, not the act, but usually for sex. A prostitute. Often, higher quality and cost compared to a street walker.”

If you don’t think the above is an accurate definition of an ‘escort’ ask a cop; ask your co-worker; ask your brother-in-law.

One website that carries ads for escorts is backpage.com.  One casino where escorts make themselves available is Foxwoods in Connecticut.  I don’t imagine or suggest that the women who advertise themselves as escorts are employees of Foxwoods.  But women advertising themselves as escorts become part of the attraction of a destination, resort-style casino.

Las Vegas has been described as the adult play land of the United States and what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.  The grand hotels, the entertainment venues, the free drinks while gambling, the high rollers and the ‘anything goes’ atmosphere have been exported to the rest of the country along with slot machines, comped meals, pit bosses and the opportunity to roll the dice 24 hours a day...and women who advertise themselves as escorts.

Type “backpage.com” into your search box. (Don’t do this on your work computer and it might be a good idea to tell your significant other what you are doing before proceeding with this search.

Select “Free classifieds - backpage.com" from the search results.  Scroll down the list of states and select “Eastern Connecticut”. On the next page, slide over to the ‘adult’ catagory. Under that heading, select “escorts’. You’ll have to agree to the Terms of Use so click “I agree”. On the next page, enter the word ‘foxwoods’ into the keyword box and click 'search'.

You are now looking at ads placed by women advertising their services as ‘escorts’.  Most of the ads are preceded by a photo of a woman. Almost all of the photos could be described as seductive, suggestive or soft porn. 

And because ‘foxwoods’ was typed into the keyword box, these ads are followed by statements such as ‘‘Foxwoods Friendly"; "CT Foxwoods Casino"; "Outcalls to the Casino Hotels"; "Foxwoods/Mohegan Sun/Stonington"; "Foxwoods Mohegan Groton"; "Foxwoods & nearby hotels".

Casinos place a high value on security. After all, there’s a lot of money on the table and and a casino would not want to make it easy for any purse snatchers.  We heard last summer how a large fire could not occur at a new casino given the extensive use of video cameras. 

Casino operators know that escorts use their property to conduct their business; they can find the ads and the photos as easily as you can.  Casino operators probably use facial recognition software to monitor their customers as casinos have reasons to want to exclude or monitor certain players.  Casino operators could probably identify women advertising themselves as escorts as they walk through the door. A casino’s security people probably know who they are. So why do destination, resort-style casinos allow escorts to flagrantly advertise their services and their availability at casinos? It’s simple: escorts are a part of the casino mystique.

Women advertising themselves as escorts will follow a Foxwoods casino to Milford. You can bet the ranch on that.

At a recent Town Meeting, Milford passed a bylaw aimed at keeping nude dancing and other types of adult entertainment out of Milford. Town Meeting has also taken action to limit where Level 3 sex offenders can live.  Milford acted to restrict the areas where facilities dealing in medical marijuana could locate.  All of these actions -- and many, many more over many, many years -- have been taken to improve or maintain the quality of life in Milford. 

Will ads on backpage.com announcing the availability of escorts at Foxwoods Milford contribute to Milford’s quality of life? Is having “Upscale Hottie Carrie” advertise herself as an escort at Foxwoods Milford just the cost of doing business?