“Cathouse” stars are pulling back.
Two decades after the doctrines struck by the HBO title brought prostitution to the American living rooms, sex workers who appeared on the show are accusing its producers of exploitation and abuse.
“Cathouse”, which began in June 2005, took a slight look at the life of employees at Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel in Mound House, Nevada. An immediate blow of ratings, it took place for two season and brought out 10 specials.
The Prurment program portrayed the oldest professional in the world as a empowerment and described the brothel as a creative home, where Glamorus Gal does well -being done with horny, harmless men.
But the reality, exposed to special secrets with six pairs “Bunny Ranch’s secrets”, premiere on June 12 at A&E, was much worse.
The documentary paints a picture of desperately humiliated women, scared and manipulated by the infamous brothel owner, Dennis Hof, who was later accused of rape by a former employee.
Some women who worked at Moonlite Bunny Ranch claim that “Cathouse” tacitly encouraged young female viewers to pursue a career in prostitution, accumulated by the fun and delightful tone of the show.
“I seduced these young girls and we’ve got a lot of them,” “Cathouse” star Shelly Dushell told the post. “As soon as they were 18 years old, [they] They were trying to work there … I mean, the show was really good for recruiting. “
“I would say HBO and” Cathouse ” [producers] Shame on you, ”said former Bunny Ranch employee Beah Charleston in an interview for The Post.
“Shame on you to make something look fascinating and fun when it’s not reality,” she added. “It wasn’t fascinating and fun. Workshops disgusting and terrifying work in the middle of nowhere.”
HBO did not respond immediately to a comment request.
A powerful pimp
HOF had a stinging role in “Cathouse”. In the mid -2000s, in the time of the air of the show, he was portrayed in the main media as a pioneer entrepreneur enriching the light of legalized prostitution.
But far from being a benevolent boss, Bunny Ranch was more like the home of Hofi’s horrors, with employees saying they lived in a sense of fear of him.
He was simply a disgusting, evil human being who simply took advantage of other people’s back and boasted of it. “
Bekah Charleston, former employer of Dennis Hof
Dushell told The Post that Hof, who owned six other legal brothels, regularly pressured sex.
“Dennis wanted to sleep with me the first night I got there,” she claimed. “I didn’t say no to him, so I wasn’t raped, but I got into a position where I felt like I couldn’t say no …. So I just went with him and thought,” Ok, well, maybe he makes all the girls do this, and I was right. “
“For the most part, he tried most of the girls who would leave her,” she added. “And then he apparently did it even when the girls didn’t love it.”
From the Las Vegas review newspaper, Hof was accused of raping a prostitute at one of his 2005 brothels. He was also accused of sexual assault on women in 2009 and 2011.
Hof ran as a Republican candidate for the Nevada Assembly in 2018. He died of a heart attack in October of that year, but his name was voted next month. He was elected after death in the country.
“If Dennis had lived, he would probably have ended up in prison because of all the accusations he had against him,” Dushell told Pimp-Turne politicians.
Meanwhile, in the “Bunny Ranch’s secrets”, some employees claim that Hof has used them financially.
He allegedly paid many workers, stripping them of their agency and keeping them effectively limited to distant brothels.
Charleston, who works briefly at Bunny Ranch in the early 2000s, told the post that some of the employees had been trapped there “for years in a time without leaving.”
“I was the only person at the time I remember actually had my own vehicle there,” she said shocking.
As for Hof: “He was merely a disgusting, filthy human being who simply took advantage of other people’s back and boasted of it.”
Moonlite Bunny Ranch has issued a state regarding A&E Special, saying: “As the secrets of the documentary series” Bunny Ranch’s Secrets “have not been broadcast yet, and we have not been provided with a preliminary copy, it would be premature for us to address any current specific content and claims that have been made.
“During his life, Mr. Hof publicly addressed and denied similar allegations through official statements and media responses, including detailed objections available on his website,” the statements continued.
“We see especially about that these issues are being revised now, when Mr.
Empowering or exploitation?
Hof was not the only one who made a beautiful penny by Ranch Bunny Moonlite. “Cathouse” quickly became a blow to HBO ratings, collecting millions of curious viewers.
Dushell became one of the stars of the show and was immediately recognized in public – but not famous with a fortune.
“HBO was not much better than a Pimp because I barely paid nothing,” she claims in the documentary “Bunny Ranch’s Secrets”.
“I did between $ 300 and $ 350 for sex scene,” Dushell further explained about the post. “And that was all they paid for me.”
“I’ve got the current salary studs from HBO and W-2s by mail to me and it was exciting to get an envelope that said ‘HBO’ in it with a check, but the pay check was only a few hundred dollars, so it was an embarrassing prejudiced to be honest with you,” she said.
“They didn’t just pay me for normal scenes, and it was just a very low money of funny money. The people who saw me on TV thought I was enriched,” Dusell added.
Another time
“Cathouse”, premiered a year after HBO aired the final of the series “Sex and the City”-another series that pushes the envelope, in which women discussed their sexual processes and activities unfounded.
In the mid -2000s, pop culture seemed to promote sex positivity at every turn, making it seem to be taking advantage of their provocative pursuits, from Britney Spears in her strange video clips in Paris Hilton on her infamous sex tape.
But in the wake of the #MeMeoo movement, many women are reassessing how much the agency actually brought.
For Posstry, the 2002 New York Post review of the original “Cathouse”, which is referred to in “Bunny Ranch’s Secrets”, has aged much better.
“There has been no portrayal of hookers this one-dimensional and the fonna since ‘beautiful woman’,” our acidic critic wrote, Linda Stasi, wildly wrote.
“Cathouse” is no longer available on HBO platforms.
“Even when we were filming it, I know it was not a real representation,” Dushell accepted in the post, saying the HBO show released the bold reality of life on The Brothel.
“They wanted to sell the show. They wanted to make money from the show, and they wanted to make money from the girls spending a good time.
Despite the veneer of the splendor and empowerment that “Cathouse” presented, many of the employees were desperate women who had fallen into difficult times.
In the special “Bunny Ranch’s secrets”, Dushell reveals that she was sexually abused as a child, saying, “I would probably never have thought of working at Bunny Ranch if I didn’t have an elderly man touching me when I was a little, clumsy child.”
Charleston, meanwhile, told the post that she was a teenage escape when she was prostitution.
“The vast majority of people who find themselves in prostitution are misinformed people who come from unclean, homeless, custody system,” she said. “I mean, I was a track child living on the street, tangible and hungry and so I think it’s really important to remember this.”
A few years after leaving Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Charleston was arrested for tax evasion and suffered 13 months in federal prison. It was later determined that she had been a victim of sex trafficking and was given full pardon by President Trump in 2020.
She has received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree and is now a public speaker who raises awareness of human trafficking.
She and Dushell also want to raise awareness not to believe everything you see on TV.
“” Cathouse “used the girls,” Dusell said. “I really expected more from HBO. They encountered a great show.
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