Seattle Strip Clubs: Seattle was sexy long before the Lusty Lady, will it be after?

Posted on May 31st, 2010 in Seattle strip clubs by stripclubbouncer

Seattle was sexy long before the Lusty Lady, will it be after?
With the Lusty Lady’s closing announced back in April, Seattleites have mourned the impending loss of the clever and witty phrases on the strip club’s marquee. We’re only days away from their final event on June 12 …
What were Seattle’s early “gentlemen’s clubs” like?
Strip clubs and other devious places for men were around much longer than the Lusty Lady, and Leonard Garfield, executive director of Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry, delved into the grittier side of Seattle in our 22nd installment of Ask MOHAI. (Got a question for next time? Send it here.)
Sexing it up in Pioneer Square
A photo of “the Tenderloin” around 1905. PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

See the full article from “Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)”

Seattle Strip Clubs: Nude Beach for Seattle? Look to the Great Bare North

Posted on May 31st, 2010 in Seattle strip clubs by stripclubbouncer

Other frontrunners in the mayor’s ask-Seattle survey pose difficulties if McGinn looks to get on the board with a quick achievement. (He needs one.) Fully legalizing marijuana would require an act of Congress.
Even with an electorate willing to be taxed, McGinn will face a tussle when he takes to the ballot, in a year or two, to dun taxpayers for a pricey Seattle-only light rail system.
Seattle has never been comfortable or at ease with bare skin. Partial displays take place on a few hot days each year. Clothing is quickly retrieved with arrival of a cool mid-afternoon breeze, or at first sight of a Seattle Police boat on Lake Washington.
Mayor Nickels had his head handed to him by voters when he proposed a set of regulations for strip clubs. Public controversy erupts whenever a bare-bottomed bicyclist rides in the Fremond solstice parade.

See the full article from “Seattle Post Intelligencer”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: Rapist gets 11 years to life for attacks on 2 women

Posted on May 29th, 2010 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

… I’m so sorry. I never meant to hurt anybody,” he said.
Smith also apologized to his former comrades.
“They’re in Iraq right now, which is where I should be,” said Smith, a former cavalry scout with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.
Deputy prosecutor Sven Nelson requested a high-end sentence of 12 years, three months in prison, saying the brutality Smith inflicted on the women was “off the charts.”
There was evidence Smith tortured one of the women by shocking her with cables connected to a car battery and threatened to kill her if she went to police.
Defense attorney Wayne Fricke requested a low-end sentence of nine years, three months, saying his client had served his country honorably before going over the line with the women – prostitutes he claimed to have hired.

See the full article from “TheNewsTribune.com”

Seattle Strip Clubs: Intelius founder pleads guilty to grand jury lies

Posted on May 29th, 2010 in Seattle strip clubs by stripclubbouncer

Intelius founder pleads guilty to grand jury lies
SEATTLE
Intelius Inc. co-founder John Kenneth Arnold has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal grand jury about strip-club sex acts.
Court records show the Bellevue, Wash., business executive entered the plea last week after prosecutors agreed not to request a sentence of any longer than one month. He’ll be sentenced in September.
Arnold was arrested in January and charged with lying to a grand jury investigating Seattle strip club boss Frank Colacurcio Sr.
In his plea agreement he admitted he lied when he testified he never engaged in sex acts with dancers at Rick’s strip club in Seattle, and when he said he’d been there no more than 20 times. In reality he visited the club much more often.
Arnold was an executive vice president at Intelius, a people search and background check company which sells a smart-phone application aimed at weeding out sleazy dates.

See the full article from “BusinessWeek”

Seattle Adult Entertainment: Crowley awarded for ‘EcoStewardship’

Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

Scott Hoggarth, Crowley general manager, ship assist and escort services, accepted the award on behalf of the company.

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

Seattle Escorts: Doctor arrested in forgery case

Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Seattle escorts by seattleescortlover

Sheriff’s detectives say Hudson committed 34 counts of prescription forgery related to prescriptions he wrote in return for sexual contact with a woman who was not a patient. The prescriptions for Xanax, OxyContin and Percocet were then filled at various local pharmacies. Hudson hasn’t been charged, according to the King County prosecutor’s office.
The 22-year-old woman also faces charges, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
According to the Health Department, Hudson paid money and wrote the prescriptions in return for sexual favors over a five-month period with a woman who suffered from severe addiction to prescription medication.
In March, the woman had to be hospitalized after suffering an overdose. Hudson continued to prescribe drugs even after he was told of concerns about her substance abuse, according to the Health Department.
According to the Health Department, the doctor met the woman several times through an online escort service where she advertised sex for money. The woman requested narcotic prescriptions for payment.

See the full article from “The Spokesman Review”

Seattle Escorts: Doctor Arrested For Trading Prescriptions for Sex

Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Seattle escorts by seattleescortlover

The 72 year old doctor and surgeon has an office at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center and also works out of the University of Washington Medical Center.
Deputies arrested him Monday for prescription forgery.
Officials say the doctor may have committed at least 34 counts of prescription forgery.
They believe he wrote prescriptions in return for money and sex with a woman.
The woman is not a patient.
The prescriptions were filled at a number of local pharmacies.
The prescriptions were for Xanex, Oxycontin, or Percocet.
Oxycontin and Percocet are considered narcotics.
Officials say the woman is 22 years old and will face charges as well.
Documents reveal the woman suffered from a severe addiction to prescription medication.
The doctor allegedly met the woman multiple times over several months through an online escort service where she advertised sex for money.

See the full article from “KTLA”

Seattle Escorts: Extra, Extra

Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Seattle escorts by seattleescortlover

It’s not every day that a big municipal project turns out to be cheaper than expected, so let’s have three cheers for the first phase of the Mercer Corridor project, bids for which came in millions of dollars under budget.
Some Eastside residents got a bit shook up when a quake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale struck beneath Carnation early this morning.
The retirement of Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division which oversees games and mobile phones, was announced this morning, coming as a surprise to many observers who didn’t even know Microsoft had a mobile phone division.
In a scandal that has everything but rock n’ roll, 72-year-old Seattle doctor Leonard D. Hudson stands accused of trading painkiller prescriptions for sex with a woman he had met through an online escort service. Which apparently doctors aren’t supposed to do. Who knew?

See the full article from “Seattlest”

Seattle Escorts: Seattle physician suspended for allegedly trading sex and money for drugs

Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Seattle escorts by seattleescortlover

For immediate release: May 25, 2010  (10-085)
Contact:
Mike
Farrell
, Medical Commission                                   509-329-2186
Gordon MacCracken
,
Communications Office              
360-236-4072
Seattle physician suspended for allegedly trading sex and money for drugs
Doctor accused of prescribing high doses without medical examination or need
OLYMPIA
A Seattle doctor accused of trading sex for drugs with a prostitute has been
ordered to stop practicing medicine immediately. Charging papers say the
physician also paid money in return for sexual favors over a five-month period.
The medical license of Leonard D. Hudson (MD00010900) has been suspended by the
Medical Quality Assurance Commission and the Department of Health. Hudson cannot
practice medicine in Washington until charges are resolved. He has 20 days to
respond and request a hearing.Charging documents say Hudson exchanged money and prescription drugs for sex
with a woman who suffered from severe addiction to prescription medication. The
allegations say Hudson never medically examined the woman, never provided her
with a treatment plan, and failed to keep approp …

See the full article from “Access Washington”

Seattle Escorts: Human Trafficking Conference Coming to Gig Harbor

Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Seattle escorts by seattleescortlover

The church has a prison outreach program that helps women incarcerated for prostitution and drug addiction to stay off the streets. She said about half of them are trafficked into the United States illegally, and Seattle has one of the highest trafficking incidents in the country. She said estimates show there are 20,000 slaves in the United States who have been sold to work in the United States for free.

Human traffickers often target poor families with children in Asian countries and other areas of the world with poor living conditions. They offer the family money and the promise to give the child a better life. Other slaves come from abusive families, left at home at a young age and who end up on the streets doing prostitution and drugs. Porter said often times they go back on the streets after being released from prison because they don’t have any resources or support, and many are afraid to seek help because their “bosses” threaten their families.

See the full article from “Gig Harbor Life”

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