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Male Prostitutes

Published January 19, 2010 at 5:00 AM PST

The Shady Lady Ranch, a Nye County brothel, has hired its first male prostitute. The owners see it as an experiment that might or might not work. But it's got the rest of the industry and some regulators very nervous about the future of legalized prostitution. We talk with all sides and ask where the industry might be headed.

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  • NV Brothel Owners Assoc
  • Nye County Sheriff
  • Shady Lady Ranch
  • The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland (Contemporary Sociological Perspectives)
  • UNLV: Barb Brents

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