In This Economy, Even Sex Doesn't Sell

Reporting from Wells, Nev. -- The women at Donna's Ranch are crowded around the kitchen table on a warm summer night, dining on stir fry, tugging at thigh-high dresses, griping about depleted bank accounts. At this northeastern Nevada bordello, which marks a gravel road's end, they woo grizzled truckers and weary travelers for a single reason: money.

Lately, the women don't go home with much.

Amy, 58, once bought a $32,000 Toyota Tacoma in cash; now her $1,200 mortgage saps her dwindling pay. Some weeks, she could make more flipping burgers than flirting under a made-up name. Marisol's daughters think she works at a resort; she struggles to keep up the ruse. It now takes months, not weeks, to bring $5,000 back to Southern California.

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Comments

[Yermammy]

Wah? There's no way to leverage the assets?

[ILikeH00ters]

GOP has tons of patriotic Americans and they are pro business. I am sure they will help Donna ranch.

There is something in the "stimulus package" for Donna's Ranch.

[Badbone]

It's not just the economy. Brothels in Nevada are famous for "high price, low service". Who wants to pay 500 bucks for a woman who is at best a 7? It is a lot less money, and more fun, to head to Tiujuanna for the weekend.

Hey, another thing outsourced to Mexico!

[TrooAmerican]

Its all marketing. The strip clubs and prostitutes in NYC are apparently doing great business with all the stressed out bankers.
I think they need to start luring some big wallstreet money in.

but a 58 yr old prostitute complaining about her income??? c'mon shoulda gotten a degree long ago with that money and had a retirement nest egg account setup and a home paid off if you're gonna be doing something like prostitution with a limited life span of income.

[Bettysdad]

Actually, the NYC clubs, where guys would routinely drop 50k - 100k a night. (i don't see how that's possible) are dying on the vine right now. The girls are in tough times.

[uncleentropy]

Let me be the first to speak of the metaphorical scr ewing we are taking crowding out the literal...

[Deus Angelus]

I stand with you on that.