why is it so important for you to be doing this? i m doing it for my son, for our future. he is the reason i m doing this. i m just an average midwest american girl that just wants to be successful in life and who decided to take a different avenue than most people. what are you doing for christmas? are you going to be here? um, i m spending it with my cousin. what are you doing? um, i m going to be at my house in dayton. oh, that s nice. mm-hmm. this job is so risky. women risk their reputation. they risk spending weeks out here and not making much money when it s slow. come down here now. come view me, come visit me, come book with me. i need some money. so many of the women i met feel that this is the fastest way for them to make a lot of money.
to a place that claims women here are in control. you may have seen it before on an hbo reality show. guys like shiny, big and bright. tonight, we go beyond the reality show veneer to explore the lives of the women who work in legal brothels. hey, bear-bear, what are you doing? i m more of a friend than i am a prostitute. hi, i m zoey. there are a lot of mothers here. did that surprise you? not at all because i know why they re here. hi, i m sarah greenmore. why have they chosen to service customers here and not the streets? this place keeps us very safe. hi, i m katherine stone. what are they risking to be here? i ve never been away from home. i m just having a hard time with people finding out. and what are they getting in return? i m in a licensed legal business. if the money is good, then i m good. think this is worth it? go big or go home.
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that s just not the case for me. i feel like i ve learned and i m a lot stronger than i ever thought i was. it s been my motto. keep calm and carry on. it s exactly what i have to do now. there are many people who will never accept the lifestyle and careers these women have, but that s not stopping london. what s the plan? so, um, it s not the end of the road. tomorrow morning, i fly out to vegas, and i will be going to the love ranch south, still owned by dennis hof. um, that county doesn t require child support payments to be caught up on. we re going straight from the airport to the sheriff s station. i will start working tomorrow night. it s just a minor setback, but it s working out. back at the love ranch, zoey too is packing. for zoey, this trip was a bust. the money she made covered her expenses, and that s it.
everything is like, shh! about sex and the more, like, people, like, brush it underneath the covers, the dirtier it gets. when i was younger, i was working for a pimp. no matter what amount of money i made, uh, he would leave me with $75. this isn t the prostitution of the 1800s. it s clean. it s safe. it s literally a service, and it s literally a job. i struggle all the time with if i m okay with what i m doing or how it s going to affect my life later on. for most of these women, this line of work is temporary, but there are some here who ve made it a career, something that requires more than just a high sex drive. a career is something you believe in, and it invests back in you with payment, knowledge and growth. that s why i call what i do a career. at 39 years old, caressa is one of the ranch s top earners.