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Skin City - Uncovering the Las Vegas Sex Industry (Paperback)
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Skin City - Uncovering the Las Vegas Sex Industry (Paperback)
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Loot Price R448
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With an impressive roster of strippers, swingers, porn stars and
prostitutes, Sheehan explores the very adult side of Vegas
entertainment. Journalist Sheehan, who moved to Vegas when he was
in his early 20s, is as close to a local as one can get in a town
of transplants. As such, he knew where to look when it was time to
expose the city's seamier side-although the various activities he
discusses are so widely accepted in Las Vegas and, indeed, crucial
to the city's municipal coffers, that they hardly qualify as
illicit. In general, the author presents a decidedly sunny portrait
of the sex industry. The strippers that Sheehan interviews find
that they've never felt so strong and liberated as when they're
onstage with their clothes off, and his porn-star sources love sex
and are pleased to be getting paid to engage in it onscreen (sex is
"the funnest thing there is to do," one explains). Prostitutes are
delighted by how much they can rake in from just a few hours of
work, and swingers are amazed by their ability to find nightly
parties where they can be as randy as they please. Yes, Sheehan
elaborates on prejudices within the culture: Strippers would never
get in bed with a man for money, while some prostitutes find it
demeaning to dance in front of a room full of strangers. He gives a
nod to pimps who exploit hookers, to deadbeat boyfriends who sponge
off stripper girlfriends, and he points out that every once in a
while, a working girl will be a bit introspective or depressed. But
for the most part, this is a valentine to the industry. Bonus for
those with plans to visit: Sheehan provides a number of sidebars
with explicit instructions on how to behave in the underworld. If
you'd like to know more about massage parlors and gentlemen's
clubs, or learn the "etiquette of mate swapping," here's one for
you. Anything but subtle. (Kirkus Reviews)
After several years of a failed campaign to make Las Vegas
family-friendly, Sin City has finally abandoned all pretence, and
wholly embraced its hard-earned reputation as the modern day Sodom
and Gommorah. Jack Sheehan is the ultimate Las Vegas insider. As a
respected journalist and long-time Vegas resident, Sheehan is the
perfect writer to uncover the dark underbelly of the Vegas sex
industry. Through in-depth interviews and hours of observation, he
takes the reader into a world where couples from the Midwest become
uninhibited swingers, shy schoolgirls graduate to $1,000 a night
stripping gigs, suburban mothers look back fondly on their days
making serious cash in hardcore porn, and randy tourists support
thousands of working girls earning a hard living. His intimate look
at the world of porn, stripping, swinging, hustling, and hooking in
Las Vegas is an exciting, and at times disturbing, look at one of
the world's most permissive and fascinating cities. But while some
readers will be satisfied just reading Sheehan's astute account of
lascivious Las Vegas, the sidebars detailing the what, when, where,
and how of the Las Vegas sex industry are perfect for those brave
souls looking for action. Among many insider tips, Jenna Jameson, a
Vegas girl born and bred, offers her favourite strip clubs; local
strippers detail the best ways to get added attention from a lap
dancer (and what not to say, unless you want to get slapped!); a
Vegas cop offers advice for Johns who don't want to end up in the
clink. No bachelor party, business traveller, or adventurous couple
should leave home without their copy of "Skin City".
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