In August, two Quartz reporters, Allison Schrager, who’s also an economist, and Siyi Chen, a video journalist, traveled to Carson City, Nevada to visit the famed Moonlite Bunny Ranch Brothel. They interviewed some of the few legal sex workers in America, and found that to really understand the work, they also needed answers to some basic questions. Here, Christina answers some of these questions in her own words. The following is lightly edited and condensed for clarity.
Christina Parreirra (her real name), in her early thirties, had a different reason for working in the brothel. She is a doctoral candidate in sociology at UNLV. Setting a new bar for dedication to field work, she worked at the Alien Cathouse (a Hof-owned brothel in Southern Nevada) for research.
-Quartz
