Word: bordellos
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...been said, this problem will partly solve itself because more and more people will find it increasingly easy to obtain their pleasure without paying for it. Now that we have the Pill, the coed dorm and the commune, what need is there for the streetwalker, much less the bordello? So far, though, these predictions have not come true; even in societies that have long been considerably more libertarian than ours, somehow the appeal of prostitution stubbornly remains. In emancipated Sweden, where premarital sex is considered a civil right, there are very few streetwalkers nowadays, but Stockholm still has hundreds...
...infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage; with stupid distortion, he makes the boy, played by Bjorn Andresen, a flirt whose eyes flash a come-on to his helpless elder, like some midnight cowboy off the Via Veneto. He even concocts an elaborate bordello scene in which Aschenbach is shown as a heterosexual failure-a moment that proves as barren of meaning as it is of style...
...enterprise, there would seem to be little allure to the idea of taking up residence in one of Peyret's projected maisons. But Nicole, a redhead who now operates out of a Simca sedan in the Madeleine district, approves. "I have no objection to working in a municipal bordello, on the condition that pimps don't run it." But Valerie, based in a bar near the Opéra, has reservations: "I don't want any fonctionnaire telling me what hours to work and who to go to bed with...
There are bound to be problems in recruiting supervisors. As one indignant woman pointed out to Peyret, "Can you imagine a man hugging his children, embracing his wife and then saying to her, 'Darling, I must be off to my bordello'?" Peyret's retort: "I see no incompatibility between such a civil servant's job and his personal life. A doctor sees a lot of naked women but that doesn't mean he rapes any of them." Peyret should know. He has been a country doctor for 20 years...
...laughing all the way to the bank. It was the firm's bank that noticed the ever-mounting number of checks made out to him for large amounts. Realizing the firm was on to something, he fled the scene and hid for two months in a bordello in Paris' 16th Arrondissement before being arrested...