Reporters suspend bordello bias by Susan Dorr and Natalie K. Young, Outpost Contributors In this package: Prostitute knew at 12 Gen Xers speak out   Just when we thought we weren't going to be able to get an interview with a flesh and blood prostitute, we hit a gold mine. A prostitute in a local brothel agreed to an interview. Neither of us had ever come into contact with or even talked to a real-life prostitute before. Perhaps because we never needed to. But we had an interview, and to tell you the truth, we were nervous. In the hours before the interview, our minds raced with premature judgments about the industry, the women and the customers. Judgments well-known by those outside of the business. What would the building look like? Cat houses like the Mustang speckle the Nevada frontier. Phot by Arthur Pines. What type of backgrounds did the women come from? Would the women look like sluts wearing short leather skirts, crop shirts, black fish-net stockings and patent leather stiletto heels? Or were our judgments misconceptions? We weren't prepared for what we didn't see when we walked through the door of the Nevada brothel. As expected we found a room laced with tastefully-framed pictures of half-nude women on the wall. And we expected to see the full-service bar. But the air was clean, and brothel "lobby" was as well. We met Leslie, 22, who had agreed to an interview. She took us back to the room in which she worked. "When I first came out to the ranch, we all got to decorate our own room, I didn't have a clue," Leslie said. "I had Sound Garden on one wall and Pearl Jam on the other. I had trippy-hippy shit, and everybody else had the bordello look in their rooms." Now, Leslie has the walls painted a light maroon color, and pictures of elegant, clothed women line the wall. Leslie explained her fetish for candles and showed us their careful placement on a small table in the corner. Leslie, sat casually on the sheetless bed, relaxed, lit a cigarette and began to talk.   copyright 6/1/97 Nevada Outpost http://www.jour.unr.edu/outpost   Related sites: Reno Nightlife Entertainment