Word: brothel
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...Blaine warns that it wold probably be impossible to return to the old standards now. Doing so, he says, would "bring back the days of the brothel, the harlot and the back-street wife with all the vice and crime that went with them...
...last January, three weeping mothers rushed into the police station in the sun-baked city of León in central Mexico. Breathlessly, they told the police chief of a tip on the whereabouts of their long-missing teen-aged daughters. A young girl who had escaped from a brothel had informed them that their children were being held captive on a ranch somewhere near León. Nosing around a ranch in the area two days later, the police chief accidentally stepped into some soft earth. To his horror, out popped a woman's arm-the first clue...
...trafficking in young girls for at least ten years. The girls, ranging in age from 14 to 25 and all from poor families, were lured by promises of jobs as maids in upper-class families. Then they were raped by a ring employee and hustled off to a training brothel in the farming town of San Francisco del Rincón. At least 2,000 girls had passed through the ring since 1954. Most of them were sold to brothel owners throughout Mexico at $80 per girl; the rest went into the sisters' own establishments. Said one 14-year...
...citizens in exchange for the life of one man, now a local merchant, who seduced her when she was 17, left her pregnant and dishonored after hiring perjurers to testify to her lewdness. "The world made me a whore; now I will turn the world into a brothel," declares Madame Zachanassian. When the horrified villagers reject her offer, she smiles coolly: "I can wait...
...peones and gauchos did the ranching, while the gentry cut a swath through Europe. Returning from a trip in the 1920s, the four sons of one family brought home a complete French brothel plus a year's supply of champagne and páté de foie gras-and in case that palled, they also brought 100 Ibs. of opium. Another turn-of-the-century estanciero in Patagonia got his kicks by staging Indian hunts with his chums; well-buttressed by booze, they rode out in parties of a dozen or so to slaughter the nomadic tribesmen who shared...