Police
in this staunchly conservative West Texas city are keeping close tabs
on a young entrepreneur’s recently opened cleaning service that offers
nudé maids.
Lubbock
police Sgt. Jonathan Stewart said the owner of Fantasy Maid Service of
Lubbock doesn’t have a permit to operate a séxually oriénted business
and officers are watching for any violation, which would bring a $2,000
fine.
But
owner Melissa Borrett insists she’s not operating such a business.
Customers pay $100 an hour for one maid or $150 an hour for two maids,
and no touching is allowed, she said.
“I
run a maid service,” the 26-year-old entrepreneur said. “We really just
clean houses. These girls are not performers. They’re maids.”
The
West Texas native and mother said she started the business about a
month ago because she was struggling as a waitress to make ends meet.
She had even been living at the Occupy Lubbock encampment ne
“I just decided to go a little bigger, work a little smarter,” she said.
Her
business model isn’t unique, but the city’s ordinance requires all
séxually oriénted businesses to apply for a permit, which costs $650 a
year, and to post a $5,000 surety bond or letter of credit.
Such
businesses are defined as any commercial venture whose operations
include “providing, featuring or offering of employees or entertainment
personnel who appear in a state of nudíty, seminudé or simulatéd nudíty
and provide live performances or entertainment” intended to séxually
stimulaté or gratify customers “and which is offered as a feature of a
primary business activity of the venture.”
Stewart
wouldn’t say how police planned to keep tabs on the maid service, and
Borrett said she would hire an attorney to fight any attempt by the city
to shut her down.
So
far, Borrett said, business has been good and she is now busy
interviewing to hire more maids. She currently has three on staff. She
offers a regular discount to government employees and law enforcement,
and an ad posted Friday on the online bartering site Craigslist offered
20 percent discounts for Easter weekend.
If requested, the maids would clean fully clothed, but the cost is the same.
“It is kind of pricey, but we’re fantasy maids,” Borrett said.
ar Texas
Tech University’s campus in Lubbock.

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