Cathouse

In 2002, HBO’s cameras went inside Nevada’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch for the first time – and brought viewers a never-before-seen look inside an actual legal brothel in the USA. A year later, in Cathouse 2: Back in the Saddle, HBO returned for another intimate look at the “working girls” who pleasure men (and women) for pay – including footage of actual trysts. And in 2005, HBO viewers got an extended reservation to the Ranch with the first season of Cathouse: The Series (note new title change), featuring 11 sizzling editions. Proving you can’t get enough of a good thing, Cathouse Season Two returned in 2007 with the first of six monthly episodes, “Hot to Trot.” The series gave fans a fresh and fast-paced look at the familiar and new girls who worked at the Ranch, as well as some of the johns who visited. The series shed light not only on the numerous joys and challenges of working at a legal brothel, but on the therapeutic benefits that customers took with them after a stint at the Ranch. Still thriving after 50 years, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch is arguably the most famous brothel in the state that pioneered legal prostitution. Since brothels were legalized in many Nevada counties in 1972, the state has become a sexual mecca for red-blooded, law-abiding Americans looking to live out their fantasies in places like the Bunny Ranch, which is located at the end of a dusty road about 35 miles south of Reno.