Selling Sex in the Silver Valley

A Business Doing Pleasure

Nonfiction, Travel, Pictorials, Art & Architecture, Photography, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Dr. Heather Branstetter ISBN: 9781439660713
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc. Publication: May 15, 2017
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: Dr. Heather Branstetter
ISBN: 9781439660713
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Publication: May 15, 2017
Imprint: The History Press
Language: English

Once the largest silver producer in the world, Wallace became notorious for labor uprisings, hard drinking, gambling and prostitution. As late as 1991, illegal brothels openly flourished because locals believed that sex work prevented rape and bolstered the economy, so long as it was regulated and confined to a particular area of town. The madams enjoyed unprecedented status as influential businesswomen, community leaders and philanthropists, while elsewhere a growing aversion to the sex trade drove red-light districts underground. Dr. Heather Branstetter's research features previously unpublished archival materials and oral histories as she relates the intimate details of this unlikely story.

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Once the largest silver producer in the world, Wallace became notorious for labor uprisings, hard drinking, gambling and prostitution. As late as 1991, illegal brothels openly flourished because locals believed that sex work prevented rape and bolstered the economy, so long as it was regulated and confined to a particular area of town. The madams enjoyed unprecedented status as influential businesswomen, community leaders and philanthropists, while elsewhere a growing aversion to the sex trade drove red-light districts underground. Dr. Heather Branstetter's research features previously unpublished archival materials and oral histories as she relates the intimate details of this unlikely story.

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