Word: brothels
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...show has its lapses, but they are amusing rather than offensive. When Episode Six inexplicably dramatizes the young Haley's first visit to a brothel, it is time to take a break and send out for pizza. This too is a legitimate part of the fun of any fully satisfying TV viewing experience...
...most beautiful byōbu is the 17th century Entertainments at a House of Pleasure-an inventory of the resources of a refined, high-class brothel, populated by dozens of crisply drawn, languid silhouettes of women and clients in - and out of- their party kimonos. On the right, above the moon-viewing platform, formal pleasures: the brewing of tea, a game of cards, and a manifestly alcoholic banquet...
...surprised that TIME should still opt for the same brand of cheap sensationalism as Senator Proxmire. Of the $97,000 of the NIMH grant in question, a maximum of $50 was spent on the brothel study. This minute aspect of the total project resulted in a single paragraph of 14 lines in a book of 324 pages where George Primov and I reported the results of our study, approximately the one-thousandth part of the total project. The book is entitled Inequality in the Peruvian Andes; Class and Ethnicity in Cuzco. That sounds sexy, doesn...
...might charitably be described as frivolous. Among recipients of such largesse is Sociologist Pierre van den Berghe of the University of Washington, who used part of a $97,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to underwrite a report by his researcher, George Primov, titled, "The Peruvian Brothel as Sexual Dispensary and Social Arena...
Primov made some 20 visits to the San Tutis brothel outside the Andean city of Cuzco. His interviews with the prostitutes led to the conclusion that brothels do serve as, among other things, a gathering place for drinking and storytelling...