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world's oldest profession meets science fiction. That's the vision of
Dennis Hof, the
owner of two of Nevada's most notorious brothels and star of the HBO documentary
Cathouse.
Henry Brean of the Las Vegas Review-Journal has the story:
The reality television star and outspoken sex merchant recently bought a rundown bordello 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas and unveiled plans to renovate and reopen it with a science fiction theme.
He is calling it Alien Cathouse and promising "girls from another world."
Hof has turned to an old friend to plan the costumes and decor: Hollywood Madam turned Pahrump resident Heidi Fleiss.
"She's the chief alien design queen," he said.
Link (Image: David Stroud/Las Vegas Review-Journal) - via io9
Urban exploration takes a turn toward the world’s oldest profession! Take a tour -safely- through a photo gallery of bygone houses of ill repute in Spain, South Korea, and the USA. The outsides may look plain, but the inside pictures display a decaying gaudiness that tells the story of what once went on in these businesses. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user Jitze Couperus)
It’s been a very long time since I was a college student, so this was something new to me. There is talk on some campuses about an “old law” that says a house with a certain number of females living there is legally considered a brothel.
The story is often told to explain the absence of sorority houses on certain campuses. But for as many times as the tale is told, these laws have never actually been documented anywhere. In 1998, a group of eight Tulane University students searched through municipal and state law books going as far back as the 1800s and came up empty. I did a little digging of my own closer to home; I couldn’t find any laws in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the municipalities where I went to school.
This is a completely strange concept to any single mother with daughters, or anyone who ever lived in the old-fashioned dormitories that were segregated by sex (I have lived in both situations). Have you ever heard of such a thing? Read more about housing laws that do and don’t exist at mental_floss. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user albioncollegespecialcollections)
It seems like everyone is getting into the green lifestyle movement, even a (legal) bordello in Berlin. Mary MacPherson Lane writes for the Associated Press:
One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door.
“It’s very difficult to find parking around here, and this option is better for our environment,” said Thomas Goetz, who owns the brothel Maison d’Envie, or House of Desire.[...]
To qualify, customers must show the receptionist either a bicycle padlock key or proof they used public transit to get to the neighborhood. That knocks the price for 45 minutes in a room, for example, to euro65 from euro70.
Link via Ace of Spades HQ | Image: flickr user keepwaddling1
