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Prostitution thrived in pioneer Colorado. Mining was the principal occupation and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, focusing her research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City, and similar boomtown communities. She used census data, Sanborn maps, city directories, property records, marriage records, and court records to document and trace the movements of the women over the course of their careers, uncovering work histories, medical problems, and numerous relocations from town to town. She traces many to their graves, through years filled with abuse, disease, narcotics, and violence.

MacKell has unearthed numerous colorful and often touching stories, like that of the boy raised in a brothel who was invited to play with a neighbor's children and replied, "No, my mother is a whore and says I am to stay at home."

"Delicacy, humor, respect, and compassion are among the merits of this book. Although other authors have flirted with Colorado's commercial sex, Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview. She has been researching these elusive women for the last fifteen years. Such persistence allows her to offer rich detail on shady ladies who rarely used their real names or even stuck with the same professional name for long."--Thomas J. Noel, from the Introduction.
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Bordello is pure seduction The images presented by internationally renowned photographer Vee Speers are inspired by the 1920s -- an era of extravagant lifestyle and sexual decadence. Shot in French bordellos, perfectly orchestrated and artistically adapted, the photographs take the viewer into the world of temptation -- erotic, lascivious, and nostalgically arranged. Music CDs: French chansons, e.g. by Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Yves Montand, Lucienne Boyer, Damia and Frehel musically emphasise this electrifying world of images. 'She shows beauty where beauty can be terribly absent.Õ Karl Lagerfeld PHO000000.
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Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. Millie broke the mold in so many ways, and yet her life's story of survival was not unlike that of thousands of women who went West only to find that their most valuable assets were their physical beauty and their personality. Petite at five feet tall with piercing blue eyes, Millie captured men's attention by her very essence and her unmistakable joie de vivre.

Born to Italian immigrant parents near Kansas City, she and her sister were orphaned early and separated from each other. Millie learned hard lessons on the streets, but she never gave up and she vowed to protect and support her ailing older sister. Caught in a domestic squabble in her foster home, Millie wound up in juvenile court with Harry Truman as her judge. This would be only the first of many brushes in her life with prominent politicians.

When physicians diagnosed her sister with tuberculosis and recommended she move West to a Catholic home in Deming, New Mexico, Millie moved with her. Expenses ran high and after a brief stint waiting tables as a Harvey Girl, Millie found that her meager tips could easily be augmented by turning tricks. Thus, out of financial need and devotion to her sister, Mildred Cusey turned to a life of prostitution and a career at which she soon excelled and became both rich and famous..
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In a style reminiscent of the 20s, but reconstructed from a contemporary viewpoint, the images in Bordello leave a thin, timeless veil between reality and fantasy. Shooting with style and sophistication, Vee Speers fulfills every man’s (and woman’s) whorehouse fantasies, evoking a lost era once captured by Bellocq and Brassaï. •Paul Ryan’s fascinating history of the French brothel is full of intriguing facts and painstakingly researched.The shocking story of how Parisian brothels still operated - and thrived - under Nazi occupation.Rarely does such a small book pack such a powerful punch of real history, nostalgic sex and dissolute glamour..
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Turn-of-the-century bordellos served up elegant meals in addition to their primary enticements, this entertaining history of the grand age of brothels includes favorite recipes, stories, biographical sketches, and menus from these citadels of indulgence..
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You will readily believe that the letters you are about to read were never intended for publication They were lately exchanged between a handsome, lusty young gentleman of some thirty summers and a mischievously pretty beauty who had just completed her nineteenth year. As the letters themselves will show, both these friends are persons of the finest breeding and the most amiable liveliness of mind.

I have known handsome Charlie and pretty Lizzie for long enough to assure you that the events which this correspondence relates are utterly worthy of belief. After several months of my urging them, they have at last placed these papers in my hands with full permission to communicate them to the world. They make one stipulation, with which any sensible man or woman must concur: the full names and titles of my young friends are not revealed.

Do you deplore their reticence? Let me tell you then that both Charles and Lizzie are persons of some consequence. So, alas, the most fearful scandal might result from a too impetuous revelation of their identities. Let me say only that the father of our hero is entered in Burke's Peerage, while our heroine was presented at court in the second summer of the new King's reign. If you have the curiosity and diligence, you may thus infer their names from the peerage, the court circular, and the details of the letters themselves.

I will not detain you a moment longer than need be from the amorous frolics and ingenious orgies which these two friends witnessed. .
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ECHO BRENNEN returns to Wyoming to regain her self-confidence following an abusive marriage. She renovates an old house of ill repute that she dubs, The Yellow Bordello and transforms it into her dream--an exclusive hotel and restaurant.

Her dream soon becomes a nightmare when art conservator, RANDALL HALSTEAD arrives to repair an old mural depicting four ladies of the evening dressed as prostitutes in an old western movie. The ladies come to life, Randall’s recently deceased sister takes up residence in Echo’s body and despite it all, love again returns to The Yellow Bordello..
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I DO not like old rooms that are brown with the smell of time.

The ceilings in my husband's house were too high. They ran away from me. In the night I would reach up my hands but I could not touch them. When Edward asked me what I was doing I said I was reaching my hands up to touch the sky. He did not understand Were we too young together?

Once a week he would remove my nightdress and make love to me. Sometimes I moved, sometimes I did not. Sometimes I spoke, sometimes I did not speak. I did not know the words to speak. We quarreled. His stepmother, would scold us. She could hear. In the large, high-ceilinged rooms voices carried as burnt paper flies, rising, tumbling, falling. Drifting.
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