Brothel
noun
A place where people pay to have sex with prostitutes.
He spent all his earnings in the local brothel.
Often appears as...
- visit a brothel
- operate a brothel
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Disapproving
noun
A place where people pay to have sex with prostitutes.
He spent all his earnings in the local brothel.
Often appears as...
- visit a brothel
- operate a brothel
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Legal Implications
Using 'brothel' might imply illegal activities, as prostitution is illegal in many places.
The old building was shut down for being an illegal brothel.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Brothel' often carries a negative moral judgment and can offend.
The debate on whether to legalize brothels is contentious.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of cultural attitudes towards brothels, which can vary widely.
Travel guides often warn tourists to avoid brothel districts.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Implications
Using 'brothel' might imply illegal activities, as prostitution is illegal in many places.
The old building was shut down for being an illegal brothel.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Brothel' often carries a negative moral judgment and can offend.
The debate on whether to legalize brothels is contentious.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of cultural attitudes towards brothels, which can vary widely.
Travel guides often warn tourists to avoid brothel districts.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Implications
Using 'brothel' might imply illegal activities, as prostitution is illegal in many places.
The old building was shut down for being an illegal brothel.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Brothel' often carries a negative moral judgment and can offend.
The debate on whether to legalize brothels is contentious.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of cultural attitudes towards brothels, which can vary widely.
Travel guides often warn tourists to avoid brothel districts.
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Video examples
The laws that sex...
I was exhausted and my life was going nowhere. Like many others before me, I decided sex for money was a better option. Now don't get me wrong -- I would have loved to have won the lottery instead. But it wasn't going to happen anytime soon, and my rent needed paying. So I signed up for my first shift in a brothel.
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Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
years when he was little living in a brothel after he'd been abandoned there but when he was old enough to train as a trapeze artist he was taken back into the circus and he went on to become one of the best performance that the trapeze world has ever had he's the only person
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Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...
besides the victims and the perps I wanted to show the women who were who were trying to help who were trying to save the girls this was in Bosnia it was a shelter for the women who had been rescued from the brothels and it was run by this very brave Bosnian woman it was
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How does money...
that Capone had earned from illegal gambling, bootlegging, brothels, and extortion, would have served as evidence of his crimes. But the money was nowhere to be found. Capone and his associates had hidden it through investments in various businesses
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Tales of passion -...
child prostitution when she was 14 years old her grandfather sold her to a brothel she told us of little girls raped by men who believed that having sex with a very young virgin will cure them from aids and of brothels where children are
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Horse & Dog Whisperers...
the one who's goes in the brothel yeah so Chloe assist pack leader I'd like to think we are but I what if a dog is attacking somebody or chasing you or not otherwise it would be like this you know sniffing around and this when you're the
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The most successful...
Madame Zheng commanded 1800 vessels, made enemies of several empires, and still lived to old age. Madame Zheng began her life as a commoner working on one of the many floating brothels, or flower boats,
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
protects us. Now, with my job, there's above-average amount of risks that are involved. I've been temporarily detained. I've been accused of running a brothel, accused of being a spy.
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Kailash Satyarthi: How...
My anger at the age of 27, to free that girl who was about to be sold to a brothel, has given me an idea to go for a new strategy of raid and rescue,
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Jorge Drexler: Poetry,...
But this characteristic rhythm pattern comes from Africa. In the ninth century you could find it in the brothels of Persia, and in the thirteenth,
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The laws that sex...
I was exhausted and my life was going nowhere. Like many others before me, I decided sex for money was a better option. Now don't get me wrong -- I would have loved to have won the lottery instead. But it wasn't going to happen anytime soon, and my rent needed paying. So I signed up for my first shift in a brothel.
Video examples
Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
years when he was little living in a brothel after he'd been abandoned there but when he was old enough to train as a trapeze artist he was taken back into the circus and he went on to become one of the best performance that the trapeze world has ever had he's the only person
Video examples
Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...
besides the victims and the perps I wanted to show the women who were who were trying to help who were trying to save the girls this was in Bosnia it was a shelter for the women who had been rescued from the brothels and it was run by this very brave Bosnian woman it was
Video examples
How does money...
that Capone had earned from illegal gambling, bootlegging, brothels, and extortion, would have served as evidence of his crimes. But the money was nowhere to be found. Capone and his associates had hidden it through investments in various businesses
Video examples
Tales of passion -...
child prostitution when she was 14 years old her grandfather sold her to a brothel she told us of little girls raped by men who believed that having sex with a very young virgin will cure them from aids and of brothels where children are
Video examples
Horse & Dog Whisperers...
the one who's goes in the brothel yeah so Chloe assist pack leader I'd like to think we are but I what if a dog is attacking somebody or chasing you or not otherwise it would be like this you know sniffing around and this when you're the
Video examples
The most successful...
Madame Zheng commanded 1800 vessels, made enemies of several empires, and still lived to old age. Madame Zheng began her life as a commoner working on one of the many floating brothels, or flower boats,
Video examples
Kimberley Motley: How I...
protects us. Now, with my job, there's above-average amount of risks that are involved. I've been temporarily detained. I've been accused of running a brothel, accused of being a spy.
Video examples
Kailash Satyarthi: How...
My anger at the age of 27, to free that girl who was about to be sold to a brothel, has given me an idea to go for a new strategy of raid and rescue,
Video examples
Jorge Drexler: Poetry,...
But this characteristic rhythm pattern comes from Africa. In the ninth century you could find it in the brothels of Persia, and in the thirteenth,
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Quote examples
Dennis Miller
American Comedian
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
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Theresa May
British Politician
It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery.
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Julie Burchill
British Journalist
I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.
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Bradley Cooper
American Actor
I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.
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Ben Hecht
American Writer
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
American Actor
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
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Yannick Noah
French Athlete
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Arthur Koestler
Hungarian Novelist
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
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William Blake
English Poet
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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Stephen Rea
Irish Actor
I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
Quote examples
Dennis Miller
American Comedian
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
Quote examples
Theresa May
British Politician
It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery.
Quote examples
Julie Burchill
British Journalist
I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.
Quote examples
Bradley Cooper
American Actor
I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.
Quote examples
Ben Hecht
American Writer
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
Quote examples
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
American Actor
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
Quote examples
Yannick Noah
French Athlete
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Quote examples
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian Novelist
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Quote examples
William Blake
English Poet
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Quote examples
Stephen Rea
Irish Actor
I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
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