Jezebel: Brothel

Nice Guys Are Bad Pimps

Sadie Stein — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:30:00 EDT

A mild-mannered Aussie farmer's disastrous attempt at brothel-owning is chronicled in a new documentary. Spoiler alert: hilarity, tragedy ensue. More »

Daughter Of Bikini Waxing, Creepy Dad Featured On Cathouse

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

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Remember "Summer," the 18-year-old Tyra guest whose dad not only used to give bikini waxes, but persuaded to go into prostitution (which she later confessed to hating)? Well, HBO recently ran a the Moonlight Bunny Ranch called Cathouse: Menage, and Summer (whose real name is Christina) was featured in it, performing a three-way and discussing how she hates being picked on by the other women. Apparently, the others think she's sleeping with brothel owner Dennis Hoff because she was given a coveted sun room at the Ranch. Airforce Amy wonders if Summer's agent, aka her dad, fucked Dennis to get the room for her, implying that her dad is gay. Clip above. More »

Journalist Quits Job At Paper To Open Whorehouse

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:15:00 EDT

Jody Paterson, a managing editor and columnist for the Victoria Times-Colonist is trading in service journalism for servicing men as a madam at a co-op brothel, run by and for prostitutes. (Leave it to the Canadians to try and level the playing ground of the pimp-ho game.) Paterson said that her work for the paper—stories about sex workers—is what led her down this new career path. Through interviewing them, she got to know prostitutes in Victoria, and was touched (figuratively, of course) by the women and their struggles. Feeling she needed to make a difference, 50-year-old Paterson—who once was opposed to the sex trade, deeming it exploitative of women—quit her job at the paper and joined a prostitute support group: Prostitutes Empowerment Education and Resource Society (PEERS). At PEERS, Paterson discovered that prostitutes are actually most interested in making their jobs safer.

The time has passed for moralizing about why men buy sex and why people sell it. Let's step forward and into the reality of it and have a safe, fair, good workplace for it.