Sentence examples for for brothel from inspiring English sources

And I suspect the word "stew" is chosen carefully, too (an old word for brothel).

Hof disregards the conventional wisdom that it is ill-advised for brothel owners to mix business with pleasure.

(The word derives from "fornax," Latin for "furnace" and also the root for "fornix," which is Latin for "brothel").

(Her well-heeled appearance belies her somewhat subversive curatorial practice, which focuses on site-specific installations such as "Case Chiuse," an Italian metaphor for brothel that literally translates as "closed house," an initiative that exhibits artworks in private spaces).

— — — — House Of Pleasures Directed By Bertrand Bonello  The French term for brothel is "maison close" — literally closed house — and Bertrand Bonello's "House of Pleasures," a sumptuous drama about the lives of courtesans in fin de siècle Paris, takes this expression at face value by unfolding almost entirely within the upholstered walls of an upscale bordello called L'Apollonide.

His staff relishes political corruption, but also became famous for brothel reviews.

In 1990, there were 140 convictions for brothel-keeping.

She now faces charges for brothel-keeping, while the men remain at large to attack other women.

Two women working together for safety can each be prosecuted for brothel-keeping the other: an obvious example of criminalisation making sex workers unsafe, as we're forced to work alone or face arrest.

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), an organisation that openly campaigns for brothel-keeping and pimping to be recognised as legitimate jobs, credits itself as largely responsible for "sex work" replacing "prostitution" as the go-to terminology for institutions such as the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

We are currently fighting legal cases with women imprisoned for brothel-keeping for working in a flat with friends – obviously much safer than working alone; street workers where police illegally seized their ID and will only give it back if they show a ticket back to Romania; a woman fired from her public service job for working part-time in pornography to supplement her wages.