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Activists, lawyers and Christian pastors are leading a petition drive to ban brothels in two Nevada counties, Nye and Lyon, and if successful the potential ballot initiatives would close nearly half the state’s bordellos.

From The Guardian May 23, 2018

The Clampers, according to the Frank C. Reilly Chapter of Northern California, have plaqued hundreds of places, “from ghost towns to saloons, from bordellos to ranchos, from heroes to madmen.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2017

Use too much, or a relentlessly ornate variety, and it can appear as if you look to frontier bordellos or the Addams Family for design inspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 8, 2015

Out of a West Indian yarn of high-toned rival bordellos, of Mardi gras and cockfights and voodoo worship, spill brilliant color, exotic fragrance and tropical profusion.

From Time Magazine Archive

A bogey man flickered until last week through the shuttered bordellos of Havana, the rich red valleys of inland Cuba, the old Spanish fortresses of the coast.

From Time Magazine Archive