A WI Lady's Guide To Brothels

Brothels visited

Window Brothel, Amsterdam
The red-light district in Amsterdam is famed for its open approach to sex and has many tourists visit each year to see the vast array of sex shops and 'window brothels'. A Window Brothel is an establishment specific to Amsterdam in which prostitutes display themselves in storefronts and try to attract their clients inside by posing erotically usually naked, or very scantily clad. Once enticed inside, a client is typically led to a small back room where they can pay for sex and sexual acts.

Moonlite Bunny Ranch, USA
The Bunny Ranch is a brothel typical of Nevada and from the outside could be a glamorous Vegas hotel except for the huge security gating that surrounds it. The lobby has internet access, a bar, and food delivered on request.

When working, the girls generally live in the ranch for 3-week stretches and have their own rooms which they proudly decorate to reflect their personalities. The money earned can be very good at the ranch with one girl Jean and Shirley spoke to claiming to earn 250,000 a year. When a new client arrives the girls will be summoned by a bell that rings throughout the ranch to come to the lobby for 'line up'. The girls then stand in a line and introduce themselves so that a client can decide who he would like to go back to the room with.

SOOB, New Zealand
This is a type of brothel unique to New Zealand which only decriminalized prostitution in 2000. The acronym stands for Small Owner Operator Brothel and these are usually small brothels set up by up to 4 sex workers so that they can work alone, but always have another person within call. The sex workers are in control of their own working hours and can work as often or as little as they like and are in charge of their own bookings. There is also no need to have a licence for these small brothels.

Bon Ton Brothel, New Zealand
This brothel in Auckland could easily be mistaken for a luxury hotel. The fixtures and fittings are elegant and the surroundings immaculate. The girls who work here are in control of their own hours, work with a contract and all seem to be proud of the brothel they work in and the job they choose to do. A set of house rules is displayed upon entry and includes the following:

Safety
I will not:

• ask for or suggest any kind of sexual or oral intimacy without the protection of a condom or dental dam.
• insist or persevere with requests for something a lady has asked to be stopped or already informed me she doesn't do.

Brothel, UK
Brothels are currently illegal in the UK and so this brothel does not 'officially' exist and yet the owner of the brothel states that the local police are aware of it and even helped her fit her alarm system to protect the girls. Some of the bedrooms are in make-shift 'cabins' outside, which are cold, dark, unappealing and a million miles away from the luxurious surroundings of Bon Ton. While the girls that work here feel they are safer than on the streets, they are still constantly worried about potential attack from clients who may push them too far.

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