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LV Review Journal, Pahrump series fascinating if you can make it through the misery, C. Lawrence PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 14 July 2008

by Christopher Lawrence

About the only thing wrong with Sundance Channel's new prostitutes-in-Pahrump documentary series (debuting at 11 p.m. today) is its title: "Pleasure for Sale."

It's the bait-and-switch equivalent of paying the guy at the ballpark eight bucks for what he's been yelling is ice-cold beer, only to have him crack you upside the head with a fungo bat instead.

Oh, sure, the series is set at the world-famous Chicken Ranch. It even features nudity and carefully edited sex acts. But you'll find more pleasure watching a string of those "Save the Children" commercials, with a hangover and a mysterious rash, while standing in line at the DMV.

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The Sex Industry in Nevada PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 22 May 2008

by  Suki Falconberg, Ph.D.

Sin City. Skin City. Las Vegas is flesh city. Billboards everywhere display tempting bodies. At one posh nightclub, the Tao in the Venetian, near-naked girls greet you in perfumed bathwater, roses floating on its surface. Girls shadow dance behind screens at Caesars Palace. The Palms has its Playboy Club. A Penthouse Pet Club has just opened. The city is the haunt of the Implant Babe, Pamela Anderson, and of Carmen Electra, and the cavorting Pussycat Dolls. Rows of topless showgirls in big-stage extravaganzas have been a staple for decades, and the city is famous for its strip clubs—like Crazy Horse and Cheetah´s. Newer clubs are springing up all the time. Topless, and bottomless, venues abound and the city flaunts the beauty of the female body—glossy, shining, naked, or near-naked—images of women as sensually pleasing and arousing objects are everywhere.

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