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...Idaho national forestland they found a week-end nudist camp. In Arizona, a brothel had existed for eight years while Government lawyers struggled with a tricky point: Does a brothel satisfy federal requirements to hold a mining claim...
Even as the Pope was preparing his message. Rome police broke up one of the city's thriving vice rings: a group of 35 college girls whose chief extracurricular activity was carried on in a brothel...
...Manuel's The Judgment of Paris-and remarkably chaste: for the true voyeur, either Playboy (60?) or New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (admission free) houses far fleshier work. Some of Eros' articles are cribbed from history: De Maupassant's Madame Tellier's Brothel, which first wowed Parisians in 1881; poems by the Earl of Rochester (d. 1680), their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles of Eros' assortment of original stuff. An article on "Erotomania," for example, turned...
VILLA MILO, by Xavier Domingo (192 pp.; Braziller; $4). Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods permitting. Acting as a combination waiter and pimp, Paco has for spiritual adviser the fat priest Don Teodulo Vena, a sensualist given to topsy-turvy metaphysics, who may be Pace's father. Don Vena explains that he is a habitué of the villa because his body, which...
Then in 1960, one jury panel included an angry Beaumont sandpit operator, James C. Barry. Barry and two fellow jurors toured the county, found teen-agers guzzling whisky, taking dope, stopping off at Rita Ainsworth's, the foremost brothel in Beaumont. When the jurors could rouse no reaction from county officials, they traveled to Austin and brought back Texas Rangers and investigators for a state legislative committee. The Rangers raided dice games and bars, took their prisoners to jail in Ranger cars when local cops declined to provide paddy wagons...