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The Family Prostitute

As the recession continues, more and more women are turning to the world's oldest profession to support their loved ones

Jenai's been trying to develop a clientele since she lost her job in the human resources department at the University of California, San Francisco. A petite black girl who wears little other than a silky bikini and a heavy dose of perfume, she's the mother of a 5-year-old son, although she has the sleek, muscular figure of a sprinter. She talks about "hanging on" at the university for as long as she could. "I was shifted around to different departments," she says. "I tried to stay there using the university's temporary-employment program, but things just slowed down for me."

Eventually out of work, Jenai was getting desperate. "If you're into sex, this is an ideal occupation," she claims. "After trying for job after job and not getting any responses, I figured I might as well do this legally instead of doing it illegally and running the risk of getting caught or killed or having someone take away my son."

After her and her husband’s business tanked, Scarlett, 33, “started looking for something to do to make the most money for my family.  And what sells?  Sex always sells.”
PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON
After her and her husband’s business tanked, Scarlett, 33, “started looking for something to do to make the most money for my family. And what sells? Sex always sells.”
Scarlett
PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON
Scarlett
Ciara
PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON
Ciara

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Asked if she ever thinks her new profession is immoral or wrong, Jenai rolls her eyes and says, "My son has to eat and have clothes ... and this isn't going to be a lifetime career." She says she still carries her UCSF identification card with her as a "motivational tool," and as a reminder that she once had a place in the "real world."

A lot of the girls working at the Love Ranch have vague plans about starting their own businesses. It's evident from the magazine rack in the kitchen area: Instead of the expected Us and People, Entrepreneur and Fortune seem to be the favored periodicals.

But there's no denying that Jenai likes the opportunity to make more than what the UC system afforded her. "The money I make is double or triple," she says. "And it's safe. I get tested."

As if on cue, a local doctor straight out of central casting arrives in a set of scrubs and carrying a little black bag. He's here to perform the monthly HIV and weekly STD screenings. Jenai rushes off to be checked along with the other girls. The examination room is small, but features a table of the type you'd find in any gynecologist's office. Not surprisingly, it also doubles as a party room for clients who might desire some kind of medical fantasy.

As the girls receive their weekly medical check, the buzzer goes off alerting the house to the arrival of customers — a group of young outdoor types who, during the winter months, likely would be spending their free time snowboarding. The girls in the lineup giggle. For them, it's a change from the typically older customer they see, a change they seem to like.

The guys, none of whom seems more than 25, make their choices (Ciara, Chelsea, Chloe and Josie) and it's off to the rooms for some negotiations before getting down to business.

View all photos in Kevin Scanlon's slideshow, "The Family Prostitute: Portraits of Women Brand-New to the Sex Trade."

Two weeks into her stay, new girl Nikki has adapted to the routine and is closing in on the top earners. This is a considerable feat since, according to Medoff, black women don't tend to get as many customers at the Love Ranch as the white girls do.

Sheila Caramella, owner of the nearby Kit Kat Guest Ranch, confirms this, and offers some explanation. "Black girls don't get booked as often as blonde girls or Asian girls, but it's just a matter of taste. I'm trying to be honest here, and most of our customers are white and they seem to prefer white girls — although we have white customers who specifically want black girls."

Nikki, however, isn't particularly concerned about the race issue. She just shrugs, "I have to hustle a little more, maybe."

That, she's been doing. "The money's amazing," she gushes. "I did office work before. Hour for lunch, Monday through Friday. I was probably bringing home about $245 a week after taxes. Now I make, like, three times that in a day."

Nikki's scheduled time at the Love Ranch is almost up and she'll be going back home to Riverside, but she says she plans to return as soon as she can. "I was able to pay all my bills today. I'm renting a house. I even put $400 down for my son's fifth-birthday party. I'm able to do all of that now," she says with some relief.

But, she confides, "I'm still probably not going to tell my boyfriend what I do."

What happens in Nevada stays in Nevada.

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  • Dan Crawford 08/07/2011 6:09:00 PM

    You are crazy.

  • Ghana 07/14/2011 8:39:00 PM

    It is an "employment" ad and "service" ad. Are the majority of you people really going to continue to be led around by your tits and balls to satisfy your starving asses from the Frankenfood you eat and chemistry set you drink? This is an upside down version of a hiring ad and sales ad. It's called marketing 101. Material Zombie Douche Bags... Coach not Loui Vitton.

  • 07/14/2011 7:31:00 PM

    Can you imagine how much the whores in Congress must be making? Don't let them get wind of this. They'll tax them to death.

  • 07/03/2011 7:00:00 PM

    Haha you sure said a mouthful! These girls will get a mouthful of very knowledgeable skills at prostitute school and the arrested development boys full of synthetic hormones can giggle! It will serve them the rest of their lives too,and their children can be proud of the skills Mommy learned.God knows they learned to be geniuses in the schools we paid the taxes for! Not just any woman can be a prostitute.They have to be really smart,and learn the technical information. It takes a very high IQ and their IQ's were developed at the public schools so they are ready for their new careers. Speaking of Political Correct we should learn how to be perfectly correct in all our thoughts,opinions and actions ! Let's become experts like these girls and learn how to please the government as well as these girls will learn how to please anyone with a few dollars in any way that the customer can imagine! The History Of Political Correct http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236 You know I really believe that Fox News,ABC,and NBC,and governmental agencies etc get their employees by visiting brothels. It's perfectly respectable. This way the girls are well trained,and they can be a lot of fun when the cameras are off too! These girls will have to do whatever whenever even if they don't feel like it to raise their children.If they get a better job offer like TV reporter,or Congressional aide they will take it. The techniques they learn at the brothel are just what the mass media and governmental agencies are looking for. Have a look where this career can lead! Fox News Upskirts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv3ScpREMYU At least women aren't being seen as sex objects and we sure can thank Politically Correct Critical Theorists for the advancement of of our equal rights!

  • 07/03/2011 6:42:00 PM

    The point is...they are doing this to "raise their family".Mommy will do any filthy thing some guy with the money can imagine.It sure is great! Much better than having a husband.This is what women's liberation is all about!Their evil husband cannot oppress them now because the males are estrogen dominant from all the chemicals and soy anyway and it is amazing that any men will even buy what they are selling in the US.The men are happier marrying other men so it doesn't matter I guess.Maybe foreigners who don't eat soy and BPA and Phtalates will help them earn their money.Now women can work and they are free of the male chauvinist pig husband! Do you have a daughter? I bet you would enjoy the idea of her taking up the oldest profession. Freedom to be a prostitute is one of the few Freedoms we have left! They get molested at the TSA screening anyway so why not get paid for it and tell the nice strangers how much you love them using your body so the customer has a good visit and hope he or she comes back to use them as a body fluid receptacle (toilet). Oh yes it's all about FREEDOM! The country is oozing with FREEDOM. It's being recorded every day on the security cameras,but you can't watch the recordings because you have the freedom be recorded but not see the recordings.You have the FREEDOM to eat insecticide in your GMO food,freedom to have your salt restricted in NY restaurants,you have the freedom to pay your debt that the bankers ran up with ponzie schemes. You have the freedom to have SWAT teams make wrong address raids.You have the freedom in Indiana to allow the police in your house anytime they want to enter.You have the freedom to have your jobs sent overseas so your daughter can have the freedom to be a "high class" paid slut! What planet are you from? Freedom has been taken away by Critical Theorists from the Frankfort School thinkers like Theodr Adorno and Antonio Gramsci who hated all the freedoms the US enjoyed. Every time they attacked what gave us freedom they claimed it was about freedom. I guess stupid people would think it was a great freedom to have their unwed mothers (which are encouraged)to have freedom to sell their bodies to pigs they would never give the time of day to if they had a husband,and if their husbands still had their job and weren't full of synthetic female hormones.You know....women now have freedom to let their children be raised in day care centers instead of raising them themselves.The big FREEDOM lie doesn't take into account that even a female raccoon will attack anything that threatens their young.But we have so much freedom so we give our children to strangers to raise! Maybe their children will come visit mommy at work and learn to be better workers than mommy!The brothel owners are very nice people I hear. The government that has allowed all this freedom will benefit from the taxes these prostitutes pay so it's a win win situation.You sure know a lot about freedom!

  • 07/03/2011 4:05:00 PM

    Personal Freedom means having the right to choose a lifestyle without government interference. Nevada's brothels have been in operation for over 125 years and it works.

  • lenin's mommy 07/03/2011 8:23:00 AM

    Maybe some of you amateur "historians" remember reading on the back of a cereal box about pre-WWII Germany... it should sound frighteningly similar to the present day USSA. Same banking tribe takes over, same societal results. Go figure... (or rather, don't do any figuring, because that leads to politically incorrect conclusions, and we can't have those in the USSA, eh?)

  • Swampthingexpired 07/03/2011 7:26:00 AM

    Why is it in grim economic times, men have money for prostitution, and don't become prostitutes in droves, as do women? Is it all about the glamour and the massive money? Because that's all that's reported, everywhere, is the excitement of dressing up in girlie porn style and the stellar salary compared to the banal clothes at the low paying office clerk job.

  • Manofmetal98 07/03/2011 7:07:00 AM

    any good?

  • Swampthingexpired 07/03/2011 7:03:00 AM

    Why is it that men have money for prostitution? Does the bad economy affect only women negatively? Or is it that women are choosing to become prostitutes?

  • 07/03/2011 4:47:00 AM

    Times are tough. I've thought about this.

  • 07/03/2011 4:30:00 AM

    Your correct, more and more ads are popping up online and off for escort services. Pussy sells, pure and simple. Yea I feel sorry for the stories, I really do but they are doing this because they know they have one thing that if it's in good working order and they look somewhat good looking men will pay for it. The hypocrisy of men and women who say that prostitution this and prostitution that and how it's bad for a society and men shouldn't be going for things like this. But yet when things start to get bad for a society, both men and women go to their basic instinct (survival) to make it through another week or day. I believe that they should legalize prostitution, the ones that hate it is the religious and the wifes/women. Because they will be in competition. And your right, back in 93 to 95 they had another article like this about the bad economy and how some women went into prostitution to help make ends meat. But as things get worse this time, those "paydays" for the prostitutes will be few and far between. They will be lucky to get 1,000 dollar days let alone 8,000 or more. Because when the economy keeps going down, that means the men don't have the money to spend. And the men that do have the money, will want younger and prettier girls and more for their money. So like that girl with the tattoos, I think she's hot and including Ciara. But someone that pays big money and have their pic may want something more.

  • 07/03/2011 1:23:00 AM

    Women are raving hypocrites, not heroes.

  • Jbennett 07/03/2011 12:06:00 AM

    It is interesting the number of "morality" comments here. PammyLou is amongst the only one, who get;s it. I have often stated that, "prostitution" is NOT the oldest profession - it's "politician." The ladies at one point realized that they could at least offer a few minutes of pleasure for their services - yet with politicians - there is NEVER any pleasure - only the screwing. Beyond all of that - it is a rotten society that has sunk so low, as to force these family ladies into this kind of work - but at least it's honest work - unlike that which is "performed" in Washington DeCeit!

  • 07/02/2011 11:33:00 PM

    That's what happens to populations that eat all the soy estrogens,Bisphenol A ,and Phtlates.We are all women now! Welcome to the club! In the middleast the men haven't been eating a steady diet of female hormones for 2 generations. There are job openings for male prostitutes too! The US men are just as good as girls. I laugh when I see our feminized males riding in packs of motorcycles.They're just look like a bunch of girls to me.. That's one of the toys the feminized men are allowed in their corporate approved sandbox along with sporstie wortsie boys they oogle at at the baby games like football and baseball,NASCAR. Man boobs are funny! Anyway they can be prostitutes too.They are so full of corporate supplied hormones in their food and soft plastic bottles they are going to need a bra and megadoses of Bob Dole endorsed Viagra! This is what happens when you have a nation full of synthetic women. I suggest everyone see the Disappearing Male http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3450754654538943# to see why the girls develop so early,but that the men are now estrogen dominant feminized males who bitch a lot. I am surprised they can find feminized males to have sex with these girls! Let's just enjoy the service economy and think of all the foreigners who don't eat soy that will come over have a great time with our daughters and all the things they can think of to make them do! Our daughters will make money too! Maybe they can make videos and everyone can see the fun the girls have! What can we do...the debt we have to pay for the banks mistakes that is already impossible to pay is inflated by another few billion dollars since I started typing this! Maybe if we had some men in America they would have stopped it but kind of too late for that now! Awwwww If that bankers only didn't make all those bad loans things might have been different! I hear the Obama guy is doing the best he can and things are getting better so just hang tight! The girls will have a good time! Look at them smile!

  • El pressiedente 07/02/2011 11:21:00 PM

    women being "forced" into prostitution verses "voluntary" prostitution is a sign of a civilisation collapsing. Read your history books people cause the lesson of history is you have to repeat it again. It is collapsing because feminism=fascism. And Fascist societies where Marx's 'redistribution of the wealth' is now called "social justice" and it always fails. The women suffer first. Then the men are sent to war to try to prop up the civilisation. War on Terror? Drugs? Oil? so women who once enjoyed sucking coke now are forced to do it. And they thought it was freedom, equality and justice but they were used as pawns.. I have no sympathy for these useless breeders. What good did it do to teach them to read and write.

  • 07/02/2011 11:13:00 PM

    I think they could become president.Politics is not a responsible role in case you haven't noticed these women have all the qualities we desire in politicians.Look at Anthony Weiner whose marriage was officiated by Bill Clinton of all people.Look at Bill Clinton,look at Larry Crraig looking for sex in the airport toilet with an undercover cop,look at Mark Foley and his salacious behavior with an underage page. Nisa you should seriously consider giving up watching television or wherever you are coming up with this delusional thinking. Things are different these days. These are the new jobs the Administration is creating! Who says there are no good jobs in America?This is what post Industrial service economies are all about! I think they would make great politicians and presidents. If anyone brings up their past they will be called Luddites,or close minded because these women overcame their struggle. They'll just call detractors conspiracy sexist moralers...something like that. Nothing to worry about here! Everything is going according to plan.

  • Gordon 06/28/2011 4:33:00 PM

    NIsa, you don't seem to know anything about American politics. Congress is full of prostitutes that are on sale to the highest bidder.

  • Nisa 06/27/2011 6:36:00 PM

    Prostitution should be banned END OF! doing these types of jobs can follow you all your life, if one of these women wanted to run for president in the future or go into politics or any other responsible role, do you think they would succeed? or course not. Becoming a prostitute is taking the easy way out, go get a proper job instead or demand one.

  • 06/27/2011 2:03:00 AM

    This is an advertisement for the love ranch. LOOK, NEW MEAT! And when you prong these ladies you'll be putting food on the table for small children, paying for mother's rent, and helping a fellow dude with cancer! Wow, what a good deed, dudely dudes of dudedom.

  • Bob 06/27/2011 1:02:00 AM

    The future of America.

  • 03/16/2011 11:47:00 PM

    It is Criminal that the Nevada Brothels are taking 50% of the sex workers earnings!!!! Women have the opportunity to make Real Money in Los Angeles or any other major city simply by going online and placing a few low cost ads. Many of the women offering sensual massages or legal escort service in LA are doing so part time while they are going to school starting businesses, or working other more conventional jobs. Like any job that can pay over 100k/yr there are tricks of the trade and ways of working safely. Unfortunately we live in a country steeped in moral hypocrisy where women are kept down and forced into dangerous situations by a society that would rather have women oppressed than come to grips with its moral hypocrisy. If men were the erotic providers in this country it would be different! How many men do you know that would turn down a one-night-stand with an attractive woman that wanted to Pay Them $200? If they did, would they be ashamed of it? LOL!!!

  • 03/16/2011 11:44:00 PM

    It is Criminal that the Nevada Brothels are taking 50% of the sex workers earnings!!!! Women have the opportunity to make Real Money in Los Angeles or any other major city simply by going online and placing a few low cost ads. Many of the women offering sensual massages or legal escort service in LA are doing so part time while they are going to school starting businesses, or working other more conventional jobs. Like any job that can pay over 100k/yr there are tricks of the trade and ways of working safely. Unfortunately we live in a country steeped in moral hypocrisy where women are kept down and forced into dangerous situations by a society that would rather have women oppressed than come to grips with its moral hypocrisy. If men were the erotic providers in this country it would be different! How many men do you know that would turn down a one-night-stand with an attractive woman that wanted to Pay Them $200? If they did, would they be ashamed of it? LOL!!!

  • Scott 11/15/2010 3:09:00 PM

    A most provacative article and one I highly endorse. One of our daughters, a fully diagnosed, text-book nymphomaniac became a "controlled" professional prostitute while still in high school, and barely at that (by "controlled" I mean her mother and I knew and actually helped her, as did her counselors, so that she was made as safe and protective as possible). Today she, a college graduate, owns a very successful "straight" business yet also owns and operates a private escort service with mostly housewives who are in the business for the reasons cited in the article.

  • angieceron70@hotmail.com 09/24/2010 9:40:00 PM

    Sad , SAd, Sad. We should be ashamed as country that we think the selling of our women like livestock is something very "convinient" in these hard times.It doesn´t matter if they are ok with it or not. It´s speaks so lowly of us as a nation and what are values have been reduced to.

  • C. Dunne 09/24/2010 8:15:00 PM

    Truely a LA gossip piece. It must have been "HARD" Mike, to sit with some of the finest women on earth and not want to have sex with them? I call bullshit. I know that some of these women are the highest of quality erotic service providers in The United States. And, Mike if you forgot to have sex with either Eva, Josie or Scarlet? Then I do not know what your point was. Your some kind of bullshiter Mike go back and have some sex. OMG you do not know what you are missing in your lifestyle. Until you do.

  • Steven Lim 09/12/2010 11:09:00 AM

    All those years that all those women looked down upon hookers and regarded them as trash. Never did they think they would become one of those hookers.

  • Chelsea 09/12/2010 7:32:00 AM

    The article was sad. The comments were sadder.

  • Greg Bork 09/09/2010 12:50:00 AM

    Excellent narrative, deeply enjoyed the narrative. Love the honest insider viewpoint. Thank you for you efforts, Gregory Bork.

  • Antonia Crane 09/08/2010 10:51:00 PM

    Dear Editors at LA Weekly and specifically Michael Albo, I’m hugely disappointed in Mr. Albo’s insipid, ignorant article, “The Family Prostitute.” It’s clear he doesn’t know anything about sex work, women or sex workers in general. Unfortunately, his viral stupidity metastasized to the women he interviewed at The Moonlight Bunny Ranch, The Love Ranch, The Sagebrush Ranch and the Kit Kat Guest Ranch. I can’t imagine why the editors at LA weekly entrusted him to deliver an honest, interesting article about women who have turned to sex work during economic turmoil. He made the prostitutes he encountered sound vapid and naïve and he came across as just another jejune voyeur. In the article, “The Family Prostitute,” Albo attempted to be sympathetic towards women struggling to support their families by selling sex acts during the recession but failed. The article is neither sympathetic nor informative. He succeeded only in stating the obvious: Prostitutes have families they support. Really, Mr. Albo? Prostitution is the oldest known profession on record. It dates back to biblical times. You may remember Jesus had his favorite chick. And. They had families to support. This is nothing new. In fact, the concept of family appears to be a main interest in the article, according to its title, but the families of these working girls were barely mentioned at all. For example, It may have been interesting to hear what “Chelsea,” the 26-year old prostitute’s mother, father and her children had to say about their daughter’s new occupation as a whore. As a sex worker for over 17 years, I can tell you that selling sex acts for money has had complicated emotional consequences. It’s hardly an occupation that my boyfriends or family members have ever championed. The reasons for doing sex work are complex and the women who do it are a fascinating demographic, but Albo failed to give the women the credit they deserve while managing to pornify them by describing instead what they were wearing and what cereal they requested at The Love Ranch. It’s insulting to sex workers and women everywhere. One of the women Albo mentioned had an interesting story but it was glossed over quickly. “Scarlet” who began working as a prostitute after her husband lost the house and took out a loan in her name began working at The Love Ranch after her husband spent the loan money on strippers. It was a series of poor decisions not specific to a grim economy. It refers the dysfunction intrinsic in certain relationships and the solutions that are reached in tumultuous moments. This is where the already facile article and its premise gets dicey: Albo’s article suggests that these twenty-three to thirty-three year old women departed from illustrious careers in order to turn tricks as a solution to their problems. But, the women Albo interviewed are too young to be dismissed from six figure salaries and executive positions. These women didn’t tumble from the corporate ladder and crash land at a “whip cream party” in Nevada. “Ciara” had been previously waiting tables at Applebee’s restaurant before her tour of duty at the Love Ranch. Albo made it sound as though the change in the economy led these professionals into the most depressing, lonesome occupation in the world and that they had no other choice. The fact is, if the women interviewed by Albo are having “condom-protected sex and splitting the profits with the management,” they are better off selling underwear at Nordstrom. Marc Medoff, their manager is no “self-help guru,” he’s a creepy exploitive crook who should be arrested for stealing half the workers’ earnings. Don’t’ be confused. I know selling sex acts is a viable work option. I’ve been in the business for nearly twenty years. It’s a direct service job and the primary way that I’ve supported myself. But Albo has dumbed-down the prostitutes and their circumstances. For credibility, he found an educated woman to quote, a sociology professor, Barbara Bents. Professor Bents evidently researched at great length the reason women turned to sex work during economic hardship. Her findings: “financial need.” No kidding. A better argument would have been to explore the definition of prostitution. In a society where unemployment numbers are bleak and jobs scarce, metaphorically speaking, Mr. Albo, working towards an unworthy cause is considered whoring oneself, especially if the job is exploitive or debasing, like being a hack journalist or a crooked politician. My favorite part of Albo’s article is the part where the women he interviewed claim that they are more than happy to sell their asses to strangers for a few greenbacks, while their families cheer them on and take their money. “I don’t mind having sex with strangers, so why not get paid for it?” The difference, “Nikki,” is that you are having sex with a stranger who you are not attracted to, which is depressing and difficult, and then you are giving half of that money to a pimp or manager, Marc Medoff. “Chelsea” even claimed that doing porn is more risky than turning tricks, which is incorrect. In the porn industry, the actors get a full STI/HIV panel or they cannot work. The partners they have sex with on film are people they know and trust. Working girls don’t have the luxury to screen their clients; they have to perform sex acts with whomever walks in the door that day, case in point, the classy gentlemen in the article, “Obama” and “Biden.” What a treat. Mr. Albo, you are a callous idiot and your article is as indulgent as it is prolix. Most women choose sex work for the purpose of making money. The only better time to sell sex than during a recession is during an economic boom. Most women who decide to sell their ass on the side don’t dive into escort work right away. It takes time. Most began as strippers, actors or fetish models. Finally, the LA Weekly is supposedly an alternative newspaper that serves the interests and events specific to Los Angeles. It’s exploitive and unnecessary to write about women working in the sex industry in Nevada when there are legions of “family prostitutes” selling sex right here in LA County, working to support their families and to pay their rent. We’re in the porn industry, we’re in the strip clubs and we have ads on the Internet. We’re ubiquitous. Why didn’t you do your homework and contact some of us?

  • Rick 09/08/2010 6:36:00 PM

    Women are all just a bunch of complaining, gossiping, materialistic whores. They are NEVER satisfied and you can NEVER make them happy Go south of the border once a week to have your fun. It will be cheaper in the long run. TRUST ME ON THAT ONE. I know...you're in love now...but in a few years she will turn into every other woman out there....YOU CAN BANK ON THAT.

  • ciara summers 09/08/2010 7:28:00 AM

    I think that it was a great story yes I do have a boyfriend that fights cancer and it is very hard. just to let every one know there was a misprint on the spending part it was supposed to be 3000 to 200. Alot of guys like coming out here because we do all different things of things there are NO strings attached. I am proud of what I do! I could be out in the streets doing it being illegal and having guys get caught ya not for me. I am tested weekly and my sheriffs card is due every year with a back ground check. I love my job and it is putting me through school!

  • H. A. Carson 09/08/2010 3:01:00 AM

    As a former sex worker as well as a one hundred percent sex positive, (pro-prostitution, pro-pornography, pro-"promiscuity") woman, I found Michael Albo's article, The Family Prostitute both informative and refreshingly non-judgemental. Although the world's oldest profession may not be recession proof, it is definitely recession resistant. Prostitution is the only occupation at which women earn more money than men--regardless of economic conditions. Even women of average looks lacking versatility and sexual sophistication will still outearn working stiffs of both the blue and white collar variety. Sex work is the only work at which one cannot fail. Ironically, it is also the only "career" in which a woman may succeed admirably and still be deemed a "failure." Not just a failure but also (at best) a hapless victim, sullied dove, demented masochist or (at worst) a compulsive degenerate or (in every state except Nevada), a recidivist. Thus, the women profiled in The Family Prostitute, are to be commended for their resilience, courage, compassion, and above all, their willingness to shoulder not only the responsibility of supporting loved ones, but also the burden of vilification and ostracism too often levelled at women who choose for whatever reason to make their living selling sex. H.A. Carson author of A Roaring Girl: An Interview with the Thinking Man's Hooker

  • Roclive 09/05/2010 10:48:00 AM

    I live in Britain where prostitutes have few teeth, smell of broccoli, and work out of disused coal mines. So I suppose all in all, it was a good idea that we gave you the colonies in 1776.

  • Beaufort 09/05/2010 2:50:00 AM

    Wow, these women have guts. They are doing whatever it takes to make a living and support their loved ones. Also, it's very sad. I just hope they all will be able to leave this particular lifestyle sooner rather than later.

  • 09/04/2010 5:41:00 PM

    I am sad (:-( Last time this type of article came out was about 1993-1995. That article was at the bottom of the Real Estate Market and showed me the bottom was +/- 2 years from that article. So, if this is correct, the bottom is about 2011-2013? Which means everyone must invest in property, land, buildings, apartments, office and industrial buildings. I'm buying about 10,000 acres for 1cents/$ and commercial buildings for about 15-25cents/$. This will keep me in the B-Boys Club!

  • I AM STEVE 09/04/2010 5:36:00 PM

    To the guy who posted as Steve complimenting me- Thanks for the compliment but you can't post with the exact same name as me or people will think I am complimenting myself:) Anyway, I am going to do the men a favor. Go to www.internationalsexguide.info Not posting this as spam. It's a useful tool that a lot of my friends use when they travel to get away from American women. To be honest, I'm getting ready to join them. I have F-ing had it with my girlfriend's constant bitching about everything and current lack of interest in sex. Don't write in attacking me about why she has a lack of interest in sex now and why she complains. She's an F--ing American woman isn't she. Actually she isn't...but she's lived here long enough to change into one. I don't get that. They arrive so sweet and within years become as bitter as all the other women here. So refreshing to go to other countries and be with women who are not afraid to be feminine and don't judge you for being masculine. Don't put up with it anymore guys. A few years ago I used to think the following phrase was cynical "If it fly, floats or F--ks...RENT IT". Now I am slowing beginning to see the wisdom in that phrase.

  • Mr. E 09/04/2010 12:26:00 PM

    No Q, if they don't want to kiss you, they won't kiss. Some of the women will. It often depends on the customer (cleanliness, attitude, money). If one tried to force the issue, they would sound the alarm and the security guys would toss one out on one's can, end of "party" (session with a working woman), no refund - and possibly a date with the sheriff in his iron-bar motel. Much to be said for negotiating what you want - UP FRONT, openly & honestly. I avoid kissing on the mouth when I'm visiting, just seems sensible.

  • anonymous 09/04/2010 1:57:00 AM

    oh my god. i know the girl on the cover picture.

  • adam williamstein 09/03/2010 11:14:00 PM

    It's the economy, stupid. Right?

  • STEVE 09/03/2010 8:06:00 PM

    Steve you are right on man. Women spend so much time bitching and complaining about men. Always playing the victim card. The world's oldest profession is where they dominate and always will.

  • ME 09/03/2010 6:51:00 PM

    Hey Q, of course, they have to do whatever the truckers want.. Earn that money, hoes. ha ha Don't feel sorry for these women. They have chosen to do this, and are getting paid well. They should legalize prositituion in the entire US. Give women something useful to do.

  • Jo Manny 09/03/2010 2:30:00 AM

    OK that makes a lot of sense dude. Well done. www.real-privacy.ua.tc

  • Jack Flores 09/03/2010 2:04:00 AM

    Sad, but true more and more women are turning to the world's oldest profession to support themselves or their family. All you have to do is look at the adult ads on Craig's List or City Vibe and you"ll see more college-aged young women advertising themselves for incall or outcall services (sex). What"s a girl to do right? I won't judge them because I'm not in their shoes. Blame the media for flaunting sex if you want, but everyone loves sex even uptight Republicans!

  • Beary 09/03/2010 1:56:00 AM

    Wow, LA Weekly, you're sure a lot less judgmental of the prostitutes than the potsmokers. I guess their ads bring in more revenue? You're (sic) Faithful Weekly Reader

  • STEVE 09/03/2010 1:52:00 AM

    To Two cents- Women have the benefit of deciding when, where and who they'll sleep with so men appear to be thinking with their "D*&*" to you. If men can decide to have sex anytime they want like women, they would not think about it as much. I'm sick of women with critical comments like this. I will NOT apologize for being a man and doing what comes natural. God...do you women EVER get tired of complaining about men in this country. IT'S NON-STOP..on TV shows, in real life...always complaining. SHUT UP. We have complaints about women but we don't talk about it 24/7!

  • SadForTheseGirls 09/03/2010 12:00:00 AM

    What makes me exponentially more sad for these girls is the cynical, arrogant attitudes of the majority of people commenting on this situation.

  • Moi 09/02/2010 10:05:00 PM

    The article sounds like an ad; there are even photos of the "staff".

  • TwoCents 09/02/2010 10:01:00 PM

    We're all whores on some level. Rich, poor or middle class, we all have an agenda and jump at the chance to make a buck. So for anyone to judge these women would be supreme hypocrisy. And as long as men primarily think with their dick there'll be prostitution.

  • STEVE 09/02/2010 9:39:00 PM

    Don't feel sad for these girls. I really don't see what the big deal is about prostitution when the girl decides she wants to do it (not talking about those forced to do it). Really. American women walk a fine line between being a prostitute anyway. I can't tell you how many women implied sex for spending money on them. I even had one woman who I didn't want to sleep with tell me after we had fooled around that the only way we would sleep together is if I took her out to dinner...which I didn't...and then she wanted to sleep with me...and I didn't. Lost all respect for her with that line....even if I wanted to sleep with her I wouldn't have done it. Pretty disgusted with the way American women try to manipulate men. Even more disgusted by the men who play their games. I prefer a straight forward transaction like what they're doing in Nevada...even though I've never been.

  • SadForTheseGirls 09/02/2010 7:20:00 PM

    This article makes me very sad. I'm depressed that the attitudes and economy in our society are so bad that ordinary working-class women are degrading and commodifying themselves in this way. It seems that their priorities in life are so out-of-whack. I know that prostitution has been around since time immemorial, but when we as a society are to the point where so many women are so desperate ( or maybe they are just frivolous about their own bodies and their lives? )as to see this as the most effective way to support themselves and their families.... very depressing. They really don't realize how much psychological and emotional damage their are reaping for themselves by stooping to the level of prostitution. And there I hopethat there is a special circle of hell reserved for the pimps that swindle them into this business of human trafficking.

  • emoney 09/02/2010 1:49:00 PM

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! SERVES THEM RIGHT ! PROLLY THE GIRLS THAT MAKE YOU TAKE THEM OUT BLOW 120 BUCKS ON A DATE THEN TELL YOU YOU MAKE A GOOD FRIEND ! HAHAHAHAHA DONT WORK NO MORE DOES IT LADIES ! HAHAHAHAHAHA ! NO MORE FREE RIDES ! HAHAHAHAHA I HOPE YOU ALL GET TRUCKERS ROT ! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !

  • Q 09/02/2010 9:45:00 AM

    I don't judge the women and times are rough. But I wonder: do they have to kiss these middle aged pudgy guys? Ewwwwwwww!!!

 

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