ABSTRACT
This chapter describes at the different ways women the labor processes involved in selling sex in Nevada's legal brothels. In addition, the identity of "prostitute" is a powerful image. In popular discourse, prostitution has become a metaphor for selling one's self in a job. In some ways, selling sex in Nevada's brothels is a lot like sex work in other venues of prostitution. It also involves both bodily and emotional labor. It involves constructing sexual experiences that fit a customer's erotic, emotional, and monetary needs. Each Nevada brothel worker determines the amount of emotional connection and physical work she will use on the job. Sexual skills, shaping the body to meet physical standards of beauty, and adorning the body with makeup and clothes are all aspects of body practices that are an integral aspect of women's labor generally and in Nevada's brothels.
