Reddit has a Shitty Ask History section for intentionally stupid questions. Some are funny, some aren’t. This one is a damn good serious question!
I’ve been reading Suttree by Cormac McCarthy, and it seems like back in the ’50s to ’70s there was a brothel district in every city. This impression doesn’t just come from Suttree, but also from other literature like The Stand by Stephen King and Catch-22.Now, it seems like they don’t really exist anymore, or if they do exist, they’re very hard to find.
I’d guess that real whorehouses were gone before my adult life. In the 70s I lived in areas where whorehouses “should” have existed, and I worked night desk in motels where I dealt with whores all the time. Once I shared a house with an OU student who was a high-class escort**. If whorehouses were common, I would have been well situated to see them! The whores wouldn’t have been using motels if they had a proper brothel.
** Footnote: She didn’t look like what you’d imagine. She was a veterinary student, scholarly in appearance and manner but well-endowed. Her clients were OKC bankers and petroleum types who wanted good conversation and affection more than a good fuck.
