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A Tale From the Moonlite Bunny Ranch
Fool’s gold for sex workers
What could be more glamorous for a sex worker than to “perform” at a legal Nevada brothel featured weekly on a very popular HBO reality show appropriately titled “Cathouse?”
It turns out working for Dennis Hof and his Moonlite Bunny Ranch wasn’t the dream cum true most girls who applied for employment imagined. Who’d-a-thunk?
On this coming June12th, the A & E network will begin airing “Secrets of the Bunny Ranch,” an expose on exactly how unglamorous working at The Ranch was under Hof’s ownership.
Generally, I take these shows with several grains of salt, as I know how reality shows roll (they’re not based on reality). But when I read the observations of one Rebekah Charleston, who was interviewed for the series in a Fox News story today, I knew her narrative to be 100% true.
And how? Because I was acquainted with a few girls who went there to work when I was running my adult advertising agency. One in particular gave me the lowdown in a long phone call one rainy day many years ago. This was her story:
The woman who I’ll call Lisa (because it’s easy to type) and a fellow colleague decided to contact the Bunny Ranch in search of prospective employment. They’d heard some good things and were up for a paid road…