>From selling a body to selling tea, the lure is still, to quote "The
Brothel Bible", "the seduction of quick money". How does writing a
book on prostitution and a childs book on ecology qualify as one as
a "Nature Tech researcher?"
Editorial Reviews
Monica L. Miceli, Community Relations Coordinator, Border's Books
Shop and Cafe, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 15, 1997
Although she is a relatively new author, her book is doing quite
well, satisfying the public's curiosities about prostitutes,
brothels, and sex. As a book seller, I can honestly say, that most
books I come into contact with do not have this sort of sales
potential nor is it worth such noteworthy national attention, but I
honestly believe that this book and its author are definitely
qualified candidates.
Peter Anthony Holder, Host, CJAD Tonight, 800 AM, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, August 12, 1997
"It was a pleasure to have you on the program to talk about your book
Brothel Bible: The Cathouse Experience and also about your life as a
former prostitute. The conversation we had was most interesting, and
as I was finishing up talking to you I realized that we have simply
scratched the surface concerning your four years inside a brothel.
For those of us who have never ventured into such an establishment,
the unknown and forbidden often draws the greatest curiosity. Being
on our show was an eye opener for many of our listeners."
Partner's Page, Partner's Book Distributing, Holt, Michigan, July 11,
1997
The new book, The Brothel Bible has everything you wanted to know
about brothels, but were afraid to ask. In frank terms, Ruby and her
other Sisters of the Heart', explain how the legal business works and
share some of their most intimate stories.
Newstrack, Talk Radio Replay, Los Angeles, California, August 6, 1997
The animated, effervescent Ruby' has recently published her book The
Brothel Bible and she is ready to share her world, a world most
people never hear about. She has amazing stories to share with your
listeners who might not get another chance to hear what life is
really like inside a brothel.
Kirby Grueter of The Wendy and Bill Show at WKQX 101.1 FM Chicago,
Illinois, July 7, 1997
Our phone lines lit up! That was a blast! Maybe you should think
about having it on everyday! I have to say you are the best guest
we've ever had on Kirby's Book Nook'. Ruby you were fantastic and
we're going to promote this the rest of the morning!
Daniel R. Mead, Loose Change Magazine, Las Vegas, Nevada, May, 1997
Here, for the first time, is an informative guide to Nevada's legal
brothel industry. So if you have ever wondered what Nevada's licensed
brothel industry is all about, The Brothel Bible is the one book that
tells all; in fact it is the only book.
John Bonds, Host of Newsmakers, Channel 3 TV {NBC Affiliate}, Las
Vegas, Nevada, May 21, 1997
Wow! What a fascinating book -- it really is. The Brothel Bible, a
very interesting book, very eye-opening.
Bob Shemeligian Columnist, Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Sun,
Las Vegas, August 19, 1997
Cathouse details cause weekend interruptus. It takes a special
assignment to draw the interest of a reporter on a Saturday
afternoon. Normally, a book- signing doesn't do it. Unless, of
course, the book happens to be The Brothel Bible. The other members
of the group, mostly men, sat as attentively as a group of world
scientists at a forum on Martian microbes. I listened for more than
an hour. The men seemed fascinated with the details of the world's
oldest profession.
Deana Di Dio, Writer, Las Vegas Senior Press, September 1997
"The road to the Brothel Bible-- Determined to share her story, to
show that the girls are people, she printed the pages out on her ink
jet printer, and bound them together using her hot glue gun from Wal-
Mart. A few months later, she has a distributor and has been on
television and radio shows, as well as book stores promoting her
book.
Newsmaker Interviews, Beverly Hills, California, September, 1997
Ruby explains brothel etiquette, reveals how management keeps the
girls tightly under wraps and debunks the harsh stereotypes society
has of working girls'
>From the Publisher
>From Commencement Speaker to Cathouse -- From Burlesque to Boardroom
to Bordello to Recovery
How did Ruby get from four college degrees to four years of Brothel
lock-up in the self-imposed prison-like atmosphere in the famous
Bordellos of Nevada?
Is it possible she made a conscious rational decision to become a
legal prostitute at age 44 after being a Ph.D. Candidate and
Commencement Speaker at U.C. Berkeley and coordinating a course there
for four years?
Or was Ruby a victim of years of Madison Avenue media hype or
unfinished emotional traumas from a seemingly normal childhood
upbringing?
Was she a genius bored with everyday life, seeking still more fun and
excitement to spice up her middle years after already running a
record company for 10 years and dancing in Burlesque Houses?
Or was her self esteem so low after years of emotionally abusive
relationships and a six month physically abusive marriage at that she
had nowhere else to go?
Was she caught up in the media hype of fame, lust and greed, the
fantasy of being a high class legal call girl with the illusion of
glamour, glitz and seduction?
Or was she a victim of an unstable childhood, who had unresolved
emotional traumas underneath the illusion of a happy close knit
family from middle class suburbia?
She married a former customer, who rescued her from the Brothels,
they attend therapy sessions together. She's written a book to tell
the story of her life inside the famous Nevada Bordellos. She's
fragile, sensitive, innocent, positive and bouncing back, as if
unscathed and untouched by her traumatic past. Her exuberance and
self-reflection, her joy and spirit are fascinating, empowering and
uplifting.
Prostitute with Four Degrees from U.C. Berkeley Empowering Audiences
We all have our own brothels to overcome, our own bondage to sex,
love, fantasy, intrigue and addiction, former working girl Ruby
states.
Audiences are fascinated as Ruby, author of The Brothel Bible The
Cathouse Experience relates the story behind her book. How she began
working in the Legal Brothels in Nevada at age 44 to support her
children's ecology books, but got caught in the web of glamour,
glitz, addiction and money.
Women and men, teenagers to seniors are fascinated as Ruby relates
what goes on inside of Nevada's legal Cathouses. We learn how she is
overcoming her oppression -- her overcoming becomes our overcoming.
We cheer her and become empowered as she speaks.
Ruby has made guest appearances on more than 60 Radio Shows
throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Nationally
Syndicated Loveline Show and several TV News Programs.
She earned four college degrees from U.C. Berkeley in architecture
and ecology, including a Master's Degree and completed the oral exams
for a Doctorate. She taught there and was commencement speaker. The
sharp contrast between her distinguished academic background and her
work as a legal prostitute are a fascinating dichotomy giving her
pearls of wisdom cause for reflection.
I've learned that sex is sex, but love is a commitment and a decision
that has nothing to do with lust, physical chemistry or attraction
which so often blind us from a deeper intimacy that only time and
trust can bring, Ruby shares with her audiences.
Now after 18 months of extensive therapy, a new marriage (to a former
customer), Ruby is starting to look back on her four years inside
Brotheldom and examine why she chose to become a prostitute, Sex and
love addiction, co-dependence, emotional traumas, physical abuse, mid-
life crisis, an entertainer at heart, lack of tools for intimacy,
adventure, curiosity, fear of choosing wrong partners, and not
wanting to be 80 years old looking back on life saying But what
if.....?' I want to live out my dreams and fantasies now!
>From the Author
The summer of 92 I was coming out of an abusive relationship a couple
of years earlier. I'd been in two months of intensive therapy (a live-
in situation) and I'd been attending 12 Step groups sporadically. I
had enough tools to stay away from physically abusive men (alcoholics
and drug users), but I still didn't have enough specific tools,
boundaries to discern and limit my interaction with emotionally
abusive men.
I didn't know how to protect my self from and in certain situations.
I was afraid of being clouded by lust and overlooking character
defects in my romantic relationships that would lead to entanglements
of weeks, months, years -- because when the lust cloud left -- I
would find myself involved in a situation that I didn't want to be
in, yet didn't know how to get out of.
A universal energy was also emerging at this time -- I noticed a
fluidity (that what I call it). I recognized it as the same type of
energy I'd felt in my mid-20's during my hippie-love-flower-child era
which I partook in during the early 70's. My heart was filled and
overflowing with so much love -- I just loved everybody who I came
into contact with. I would only see the good in these people. I was
blind or oblivious to everything else.
I had equated sex with love back then -- fulfilling my endless need
for sensually expressing myself and being touched by allowing men to
use me sexually. I rationalized back then, saying that I was getting
to know all kinds of different men that I would not have gotten to
know otherwise because I wouldn't have met them in social situations -
- we didn't run in the same crowds. But I'm learning, (through my
first year of intensive therapy now 25 years later) that I did not
have tools to maintain my personal boundaries for myself.
As my love everybody energy was emerging that summer of 92 -- I knew
I didn't want to repeat what had happened 20 years earlier -- I was
burnt out sexually by the age of 27 -- not able to sustain an
intimate one-on-one relationship and no longer satisfied with the
endless stream of one night stands I had gotten used to the previous
four years -- coming to the conclusion that maybe Jesus didn't
literally mean to love everybody SEXUALLY. I thought I would never
feel again. So I was bound and determined now, 25 years later not to
repeat that same scenario.
Three specific incidents happened that summer which probably helped
fuel my love energy fire burning and churning beneath my emotional
surface and a smattering of sex equals love hadn't completely left
yet, despite the therapy I'd been through. Throw in my vow to not
make love until I really got to know a man well and could totally be
myself -- after the emotional lust of the moment cloud had passed
over. The minute I had sex I observed in the past, I would stop being
myself. I was just putty in a guy's hands. I was in love submissively
instantly.
So I figured if I could make it past that cloud with no sex and
continue being myself, which after time would enable me to open up,
and trust and be vulnerable, then I could make love -- without taking
a chance of loosing my sanity and rationality and discernment. I
observed that while in the cloud of lust I would allow
men/relationships into my life that had characteristic that I would
never allow in my female friendships. So something was definitely
haywire somewhere.
Back to the three things that happened that summer. Number One. I met
a young man named Chaz, age 24 (20 years my junior since I was 44 at
the time) who instantly became my best friend. We couldn't stop
talking from the moment we met. He was gay, so there was no sexual
tension and our friendship could just bloom (although, I must
confess, I added a smidgen of tension when I thought I could convert
him to liking women, but that's another story). Anyway when two
people love each other (even without sex) it makes me feel like I can
do anything. I can be who I've dreamed about being. I can live out my
every fantasy. Anything is possible. My self esteem and self-
confidence grew by leaps and bounds that summer. It was like I had
permission to let my creativity cork out and let it flow.
I was also seeing an older women, who I will call Joan, on Sundays
and helping her with shopping, since she didn't have a car and taking
her and her husband to the movies. She would fix me dinner and I felt
love and warmth from this poetic woman. This was my Sunday family.
The third thing that happened that summer was when I was getting a
massage (or body work as some called it) from an oriental woman, who
was in training. We were both on our knees at the end and holding
hands with eyes closed and I couldn't stop crying. I was so touched
by this woman's love. She gave so much love in her work. I felt it.
It filled me up. And I thought -- she gave her love, now if I could
give her money that I'd made out of love, and then what if the whole
world could work that way -- all of us exchanging money we'd made for
work we loved -- what a wonderful world -- tra la tra la tra la......
I truly felt this in my heart of hearts, my roots, my soul. I was
moved.
>From the Inside Flap
The Brothel Bible has been compiled by Sisters of the Heart, former
working girls, who have experienced life in the legal Brothel
Industry of Nevada. We have chosen to compile this information for
those men and women out there who are simply curious, for those that
have never frequented a legal Brothel, and for those customers who
want to experience the true inner sanctums of our private world. Our
source of information has come from our own personal experiences,
research and diaries. We have written this book to break down that
unspoken Mystique that seems to surround the Brothel Industry.
We have seen, heard, watched, listened, observed and absorbed
experiences throughout these years by working alongside girls from
all walks of life, and servicing customers from around the world. We
have worked in a variety of environments, north and south, from plush
houses with tiffany chandeliers, to run down double-wide trailers.
Sometimes we've even found ourselves imprisoned in Brothels with
locked gates, boarded windows and armed guards. Sometimes, we've
lived like a Princess and sometimes like a Pauper. We've been higher
than a kite, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to being
desperate, lonely and broke, living from motel to motel, or out of
our cars.
As we write these words today, the feelings and memories of our
experiences are alive within us. They range from satisfaction and
excitement to resentment and rage. It is our desire to share these
diverse emotions with you. This is not a clinical examination or
objective review of Brothels. This is The Cathouse Experience and our
goal of communicating it would fall short of it's mark if we were to
sterilize and objectify what we have written.
We hope you enjoy the old time illustrations we found which we have
used throughout this book. We thought they were fun. Since as authors
we are remaining anonymous, so will our acknowledgments. But those of
you who have contributed know who you are and our heart embraces each
and every one of you -- for we are all Sisters of the Heart.
>From the Back Cover
"Everything you've always wanted to know about Legal Nevada Brothels,
but never really knew who to ask."
Former Working Girls (Legal Nevada Prostitutes) give it to you
straight -- The facts, in detail, direct answers to your questions.
The Brothel Bible guides those who are curiosity seekers into the
inner sanctums of the World of Brotheldom, revealing what goes on
behind those closed cathouse doors. They peel away the mystique that
has shrouded this industry for decades.
About the Author
Carole Rollins-Eddington (who uses the pen name Ruby and Sisters of
the Heart) was born and raised in Northern California. Her background
and experience is diverse and varied. She spent seven years in the
collegiate academic world, receiving four higher education degrees,
completing her Masters and oral examination for her Ph.D. from the
University of California at Berkeley. She received several awards,
grants, scholarships and honors, as well as being chosen as
Commencement Speaker. She also organized and coordinated a course
there for four years.
She then went on to live in New York City for ten years, Switzerland
for two years, than back to Southern California for three more years.
She now resides in Las Vegas which rounds out her experiences in a
wide variety of geographical, business and social environments.
She co-owned a record production company in New York, danced in
Burlesque Houses, worked in Massage Parlors, wrote mining business
proposals, created several artistic products, lived in communes, in
Times Square, in San Francisco, and in tents one summer in the
Catskills.
She was married three times, had five more major live-in affairs for
twenty years, then at age 40 she decided it was time to fulfill her
own dreams, instead of helping men fulfill theirs, and leaving hers
on the back burner. At age 44 she had a face-lift, entered a brothel
for the next four years and started to financially provide for
herself and slowly fulfill her dreams by making the most money in the
least amount of time. She spent it all on writing ecology books and
illustrating them, and starting a printing shop to produce them.
She doesn't want to be 80 years old and look back on her life and
say -- But only if I had done.... She is slowly, but surely living
out her dreams, living by her heart, a fluid, flowing, fulfilling
life exactly how she wants to...........and getting into lots of
adventures.
She worked for four years, about six months each year, in the legal
houses of prostitution in Nevada, small houses, big houses, busy
houses, slow houses. She retired last year physically and emotionally
drained. Ruby got married three months ago and has been in extensive
therapy to integrate herself back into the world outside of
Brotheldom -- bound and determined never to return again, despite the
seduction of quick money and the lure of glitz and glamour. She has
written this book to share her experiences in that brothel
environment, still with the one goal in mind to raise money to
produce her ecology books.
Excerpted from The Brothel Bible by Sisters of the Heart. Copyright ©
1997. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
I was 44 when I went to work in the Nevada Brothels as a legal
Prostitute. It was my way of coping with "Middle Age Crisis". I'm
sure I was also trying to seduce a 24 year male companion I was
seeing at the time, into believing I was still young and attractive.
Of course he was gay, but I thought I could change all that.
In hindsight, I'm sure a strong dose of sexual addiction and looking
for love in all the wrong places and approval through sex also played
a large part in my adventure. But at the time, I was oblivious to
those deep-seated emotional traumas and realms of inner turmoil. I
was just having fun playing "dress-up" -- after all, where else could
I go all "dolled-up" in long sparkly evening gowns seductively cut
(ala Mae West) with gobs of glittery jewelry and long blond wigs (ala
Dolly Parton). And I don't think K-Mart patrons would have approved
of me parading up and down their aisles in my thigh high red patent
leather boots with 6" spike heels, wearing a skimpy red vinyl one
piece costume with my pushed-up double-padded bra, long red velvet
gloves, red flowers in my hair and blood red painted lips.
I got a complete face lift during my second year of working and wore
gobs of rhinestone jewelry and wigs to detract from my aging
physique. I would stand in "line-ups" in the brothels before
potential customers trying to get picked with girls half my age on
both sides of me . Fat chance I'd think, as I stood next to the
clean, fresh faced, girl-next-door types, young innocent looking 20
year olds who were my competition and could be my daughters!
But, I glittered, as if I were a Show Girl (or so I tried to portray
the illusion) and guys ate it up. After driving from Reno or Vegas
out to the Ranches (which were always out in the middle of nowhere),
yet allowed to legally exist, but carefully hidden far away from the
decent folks in the cities and their puritanical prying eyes, guys
(into their own emotional fantasies, spells and illusions) would
surprisingly pick me. I figured they were fantasizing about getting
it on with a Show Girl -- their interpretation of a Show Girl anyway -
- probably the kind they'd just seen in the Topless bars in town
combined with my brazen interpretation.
I'd stay in the Brothels for one to three weeks at a time --
literally locked up inside -- supposedly for medical protection. Many
houses actually had the windows boarded up and sealed shut, without
even a glimmer of daylight shining through. But management needed to
control the illegal drug usage or authorities would shut the houses
down, or so they said.
We were a motley crew of girls, ranging in age from 21 to 50 -- all
sizes, shapes, types and colors living together kind of like a big
slumber party or reminiscent of a college dorm. Some girls were there
to support children, others to earn money to go to school, others
needed cash to support their pimps (or financial advisors as the 90's
terminology has it) or drug habits, or some just wanted extra
spending money.
The customers would come from around the world, 24 hours a day, non-
stop. We would get up and down all night long, taking cat naps
whenever we could. There were lonely men (newly divorced or widowed),
curious men, horny men, sexually addicted men, young bucks looking
for excitement, older men wanting to feel young again (very often
picking the youngest looking women). For whatever reasons they kept
coming, escaping their realities, fantasizing for a brief moment,
wanting to experience and be part of an illusion, captured in a state
of euphoric bliss.
We'd leave after our tour of duty with wads of cash, bills stacked
high. We'd make anywhere from $2,000 to you were working at, what
season it was, and how many customers you'd serviced. But we'd spend
it fast as we'd get it to keep the pimps happy, to keep up our
physical illusionary sexual allure, or to buy drugs or alcohol, or
for physical survival needs and family necessities.
Book Description
The Brothel Bible, by Sisters of the Heart, is a general introduction
to the legal Brothel Industry in Nevada -- revealing what goes on
behind those closed Cathouse doors and peeling away the mystique that
has shrouded the Brothel World for decades.
One former working girl wrote the book from her own four years of
personal "hands-on" experiences as a legal Nevada prostitute in a
variety of Brothel environments. She has also interspersed stories
from other working girls throughout the book.
The book is written conversationally -- directly from diaries and
also includes more objective reviews of various Brothel facilities,
procedures, medical testing, management, as well as descriptions of
customers, working girls and activities.
The Brothel Bible addresses the issues of cultural stigmas placed on
working girls. The author states that these girls and woman are
people with the same emotions, problems, needs, wants and desires as
anyone else. They are brought to their jobs by circumstance and
choice, to fulfill emotional as well as financial needs, wants and
desires.
The girls are simply coping with the changes in their lives -- lured
to the glitz of Nevada, just like everyone else, by the seduction of
quick money, the allure and excitement of living out glamorous
fantasies, as well as being caught up in addictions and unfinished
emotional traumas from the past -- concluding that each of us have
our own brothels to overcome, our own bondage to sex, love, fantasy,
intrigue and addictions.
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