Talk:Dennis Hof

Major rewrite
Did a major rewrite on the article. I retained the relevant information whilst supplementing with additional material.

The article contained one of the biggest grammatical no-nos, the improper use of the colon (stop giggling, your zits are showing) in mid-sentence. It made the article read more like an 8th grader's attempt at an essay. I've remedied that.

I've also set up an outline--if you will--to expand the article into fuller form once I have more information about Dennis Hof.  As I collect it, I'll integrated it into the article itself.

Removals
Removed two sentences:


 * so as to not jeopardize their business

As no example is adduced of a brothel owner being prosecuted for advertising, the sentence lacks a factual basis.

The brothel owners kept a low profile for many years to avoid any excuse for anyone to give them grief. Since, in many of these small counties (prostitution is illegal under state in any county with more than 400K residents: only Clark County, home of Vegas has more than that many people, FIVE times as many!) tax revenues from the brothels make up 25%+ of these counties' budgets, there's little local incentive to harass the brothel owners with what are probable unconstitutional laws anyway.

It's no stretch to say that without the "sex industry", many counties would have to make draconian cuts in governmental services.


 * thereby circumvent [sic] the Nevada ban on brothel advertising

the use of the term "circumvent", imo, implies that somehow Hof is doing something illegal.

'''Perhaps a lawyer can correct me here. I don't see how this "ban" on brothel advertising could possible be legal.'''

After all, many unConstitutional laws are still on the books: the most appropriate, if not directly on point, are the "sodomy" laws (on the books in at least 13 states) recently stricken down by the High Court. The laws are still on the books but unenforceable.

'''Decades ago, the SCOTUS struck down bar and medical association bans on advertising for their members. The court ruled''', in both cases, that the bans were not only a violation of free speech (as well commercial speech).

For years Clark County has been fighting a losing battle with the publishers of sexually-themed advertising. Many of the brochures, magazines, etc, are little more than pornography. Yet, time after time, the courts have refused to allow the County Commission to ban the distribution of this pornography. This material is openly handed out on The Strip; the distributors often try to give the stuff to parents and very young people.

I realize that Congress can ban advertising of tobacco products on broadcast TV because the Federal government actually owns the airwaves. I seriously doubt any cable network is going to throw, e.g. the cigarette hand grenade into Congress' lap. It would certainly lead to attempts to sick the FCC on cable providers.

PainMan (talk) 12:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Bias
I edited this part out

"Dennis Hof harbored wanted sex offender Philip Yoder for two years. Yoder was wanted out of oregon for parole violations. He was a convicted sex offender that never registered in carson city nevada while living and working at Hofs apartment complex. In the two years he worked at the Bunny Ranch he never registered with Lyon County Sheriffs Department for his Sheriffs card which is mandatory by law to make sure that the people working there are not criminals or wanted. Dennis and Philip Yoder have been friends since Philip owned a publishing company for sex clubs. http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080918/NEWS/809179946&parentprofile=search[citation needed]"

This implies that Hof has been charged with harboring a criminal or committed some other form of wrongdoing. The section should only be added back in once someone correctly formats and re-writes it with the bias taken out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.100.135.219 (talk) 21:18, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090219231548/http://www.msnbc.msn.com:80/id/29181044/ to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29181044/

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Middle Name Incorrect
I’m Dennis Daughter Shelly. His middle name is incorrect. I have both birth & death certificate. The people he called “friends” also put Dennis Allan Hof on his gravestone. Shame on them Shellbomb00 (talk) 04:47, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Family background
He seems to have been of German extraction. A hint on this would be useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:9E8:261:200:15EA:F3DF:C4B2:4AE (talk) 17:25, 14 December 2021 (UTC)