Court TV host: We're going to be joined by brothel owner Dennis Hof and prostitute Trixi Starr. Dennis Hof runs the famous Nevada brothel, the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. And, as you may know, it's one of the few legal brothels in the United States.

Court TV host: One slight change: Trixi won't be with us for a little while...she's "partying"

Dennis Hof: Trixi is having sex.

Court TV Host: We're also being joined by Mila, XXX star, the Queen of Nasty. We hope that we'll also be joined by Trixi later. Let me ask, before we begin, though, Mila, how you got the nickname, Queen of Nasty?

Dennis Hof: She does extreme stuff, she does things most housewives have never even thought of, much less done.

Mila, Queen of Nasty: You can quote that.

warhorse46 asks: What is the average salary of the working girls per year?

Dennis Hof: The easiest way to answer that is that the girls will make $750-3000 a day. It's hard to compute an annual salary because most girls don't work like its a full time job. They'll come in to work for a month, make $50,000, then you don't see them for 4 or 5 months.

Mila: Since I started working, I've made close to eight figures. But I also am the Queen of Nasty, I get awards every year at the consumer electronic show in Vegas. The industry awards me, saying I'm the most outrageous performer in the entire industry.

cuteone_00953 asks: What kind of people are "doing" this type of job,? For example, people from broken homes, or with drug problems or is that just a stereotype?

Mila: That's just a stereotype.

Dennis Hof: The myth is that all prostitutes have been sexually molested. It's just not that way.

Mila: I have been at the Bunny Ranch for 2 years now, and 98 percent of the girls I'm friends with are very normal people: no drug background, no history of abuse, none of that.

Dennis Hof: The media has put an image in the public's mind of the prostitute being an under-age ethnic girl with a short skirt, a crack pipe, and a pimp down the street. In some cases they're right, but when you legalize prostitution, it eliminates all that.

phughq asks: How has being a prostitute changed your life or your views on life?

Mila: For me personally it hasn't at all, because working at the Bunny Ranch is for me. It's like being at a fantasy camp. It's changed my bank account. But as far as my views and my goals and stuff, it hasn't changed anything at all.

Dennis Hof: Sometimes the lowest form of prostitution is marriage. It's not always like that, but there are times when it is like that.

warhorse46 asks: Tell us about some of the more unusual requests that have been made in your House.

Dennis Hof: There's a lot of stories. I like the guys that want to come in and apply for a job as a working girl. Their fantasy is to be someone like Mila. We have size 17 shoes and size 24 dresses. They'll fill out an application and talk to the madam. We'll ask questions, Like, why would you be good at this? And after that, we'll have him go sit at the bar and try to pick up customers.

Mila: I could tell you some of the specialties, like some of the things we offer here. A lingerie show, dirty dancing, massage, hand relief party, mutual masturbation, undressing, shame and humiliation "Freak of the week" show, orgy. We also have great bachelor parties.

Court TV Host: Hello, everyone, we're talking with Dennis Hof and Mila, the Queen of Nasty (Trixi Starr is otherwise occupied right now...she's working)

Mila: I personally like the food parties myself.

Dennis Hof: A new fantasy for us is the food party. They'll go down to the store and buy hundreds of dollars of Ho-Ho's Ding Dongs, Hersheys chocolate, strawberry syrup, whipped cream, of course, cookie dough, etc�

cglathrop_1965 asks: How much can the average "good time" cost?

sneeky_in_sacto asks: How much does an average "session" cost?

Dennis Hof: There's a lot of variables: how long, how many girls, how kinky, whether its a house girl or a porn star. Somebody like Mila is able to command more money because she has a huge fan base, just like a Playboy playmate. The range that I see runs anywhere from $100 as the minimum up into the tens of thousands of dollars. We accommodate anybody, whatever anybody's budget is, the girls try to accommodate them.

Mila: The number one priority is to satisfy the customer.

cglathrop_1965 asks: Does the price change if somebody is ugly� or better looking then most others?

Mila: Absolutely not

Dennis Hof: The price changes if they have a bad attitude or they're a smart ass. I could share with you how to get the best value. Treat the Moonlight Bunny Ranch as a singles bar. Just know the odds are better. What would you do? You'd be clean, you'd be well dressed, you'd use your people skills, get more bang for your buck.

pattyj82060 asks: What county is your brothel located in?

Dennis Hof:We're in Lyon County, Nevada. Prostitution is legal in all counties in Nevada except for Clark county, Las Vegas, and Washoe county and Carson County, where Carson City is.

bush_diver35 asks: Are the gals monitored for disease?

Dennis Hof: 16 years of mandatory testing, over 100,000 tests -- there has never been one case of HIV in a Nevada brothel. The ladies are checked weekly for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and monthly for HIV. The Bunny Ranch may be the best example or proof that condom usage works. Nevada only contributes one half of one percent of all the sexually transmitted diseases in America, partially attributed to the success of the brothel.

omni_888 asks: Mila did you ever work at normal type jobs, and if you did, what were they???

Mila: I worked for a psychiatrist doing medication management.

Dennis Hof: We have one girl who's a practicing attorney that comes in one weekend a month and works for us. We have a nurse, we have numerous teachers in the summertime. I know of three girls who have worked their way through medical school at the ranch. A zillion girls work there in the summer, college girls, they can then focus on their education during the school year.

Mila: We have one ex-marine. We also have an ex-cop.

bubbah72 asks: What is a "typical" day at a brothel?

Mila: I wake up in the morning, take a shower, have breakfast, see some clients, work out, have some lunch, see some more clients, then change, put some more make-up on, see some more clients, hang out, talk to the girls, basically have dinner, see some more clients, and then go to bed. I get a massage, get a manicure, get a pedicure, use the tanning facility here. Use the swimming facility. Use have a pool here and a gym.

Dennis Hof: My day: I wake up at 7 in the morning. I like sex in the morning. I call in and get the reports, see what the numbers were at the ranch. Make my phone calls to Europe and New York. I'll have breakfast out on the patio, ride my horses, come back in the house to start working on the computer, communicating with my accounting staff, my administrative assistants, my correspondence. Then I'll go to the ranch, speak with madam Suzette, work there for a while. we're in the process of doubling the size of the facility. Take a few of the girls out to dinner, that's it.

Mila: I have more fun than Dennis does.

Dennis Hof: I know. I'm getting laid once a day, you're getting more than I am.

cptn_rukus asks: Is it true, some girls will charge to try to discourage a customer?

Mila: Absolutely not.

Dennis Hof: Excellent remark. The reality is that in most prostitution around the world that's true, but in the Ranch the girls don't have to have sex with anybody they don't want to. They don't have to do any sex acts, they don't want to. Keep in mind that many of the customers are there because their wives won't do certain things. That's why we don't require the girls to do anything they don't want to.

Mila: The first question asked is not how much money you have, but what the fantasy is. We're here to satisfy a need. It's not a matter of what they look like, It's not like that, everyone's beautiful. The girls as independent contractors have decided they want to come here and fulfill a fantasy for the customer. If one girl doesn't want to do it, another girl will do it. Not because she has to but because she wants to.

tootall_350 asks: Why can it be legal there but not here?

JLPY98 asks: What are the steps towards legalization?

Dennis Hof: The reason it's legal here is that it was part of the culture of Nevada prior to its becoming part of the US. Nevada was founded on mining and ranching. There were lots of immigrant miners in Virginia City, which is six miles from the brothel. It was part of the culture. It wasn't legal, it was just tolerated. In 1970, the Nevada legislature decided to go ahead and legalize it because they thought it would be healthy for the state. There's prostitution everywhere, the choices are you're either going to legalize it, regulate it, tax it, and make sure there's proper health checks, or you're going to turn your head and pimps are gonna take 14 year-old girls and put them on the streets or in massage parlors with no background or health checks.

Dennis Hof: How do you do it? You start with grass-roots efforts. You lobby your legislatures. You make everybody wake up. You say we want to deal with this issue.

Court TV Host: Here's a follow-up...

root11root asks: Do you think prostitution should be legal everywhere?

Dennis Hof: Absolutely.

Mila: I agree.

Dennis Hof: It makes perfect sense, you can't get rid of it. Our country's had over 200 years to rid itself of prostitution, you cant do it, you have to regulate it.

Mila: But it has to be taught by Dennis, he has to give Legalizing A Brothel 101, to get a certificate.

Dennis Hof: I'll teach it on the Learning Channel.

Court TV Host: Maybe you could teach it on Court TV.

Dennis Hof: I'm going to go on Catharine Crier's show on Court TV on the 10th of October.

dbrooks8 asks: How much does Mila get and how much does the house get?

Dennis Hof: 50-50 The girls get half, the house gets the other half and pays its expenses, the return on the investment. The bottom line is that when my 50 percent is done, I end up with about 15 percent.

Mila: Everyone should come and visit the moonlight buddy ranch. We're proud of what we do. We have nothing to hide. Party with the Queen of Nasty.

Court TV Host: We have a follow-up on working conditions...

bubbah72 asks: Do you give benefits like a regular business, i.e.: insurance, vacation, 401K, retirement, day care??

Dennis Hof: They're independent contractors, so they can't receive benefits, their benefit is that they get a mid to high six-figure income. When you're making hundreds of thousands dollars a year, you can pay to have your teeth cleaned.

Mila: I'm going now and I'm going to put Trixi on, if anybody wants to come visit me, they should come by the Moonlight Bunny Ranch -- call 888-BUNNYRANCH.

Court TV Host: Thanks, Mila, for joining us...We're now joined by Trixi.

gadgetgirlnyc asks: Is Nevada the only state with legalized prostitution and if so, why?

Dennis Hof: Because the rest of the states are too stupid to do it.

Trixi Starr: Hi everybody.

mktbtoy asks: Can you honestly say you enjoy being a prostitute? What is the appeal for you, Trixi?

Trixi Starr: It's not really different than doing video. I have experienced I can tell about and expand upon.

cuteone_00953 asks: If you have a boyfriend, how does he feels towards "the type of work" and being with men?

Trixi Starr: I don't have a boyfriend right now. But if I did have a boyfriend I would expect him to be totally understanding, especially when I keep him as my man, my divine hammer.

knous_ asks: Do you all make customers use condoms?

Trixi Starr: When I'm working as a prostitute I make them all use condoms.

Dennis Hof: That's how we keep the integrity of safe sex, the reason people come from all over America to the Bunny Ranch is that they know the girls are tested, and there's condom usage.

knous_ asks: How many men a day does each prostitute have sex with?

Dennis Hof: Not as many as they like, usually working girls like a lot of sex. If it's a decent day you get 10, maybe 5 to 10. I hear a 100 girls say, "God, I've gotta get laid tonight," for every one who says, "God, I'm worn out."

Trixi Starr: I prefer one an hour, one orgasm an hour.

jb22_49001 asks: What was your inspiration for getting into this business?

Trixi Starr: My inspiration was first of all when I was 18, I wanted to start out as a Las Vegas show girl. I came from a dancing background, being schooled in tap, jazz, and modern dance. At the age of 18, I thought maybe a Las Vegas show girl would be the way to go, and then I went into telephone actressing for a year and a half. Then a friend introduced me to an agent who got girls gigs in videos and magazine shoots. I've never looked back since then. Other girls encouraged me to come here and work at this place. This is my second time back and I totally dig it. I've also gotten experience on being my own video producer and director, as far as learning how to shoot a video and budgeting an adult video, and scriptwriting in feature films.

Court TV Host: How about you, Dennis?

Dennis Hof: I think of myself as the Victor Kiam of the brothel business. iI liked the product so much I bought the company!!! It's the best job in the world. You're making a lot of money, and you're around beautiful women all the time. Why would I want to be a lawyer or a doctor? Come on, I'm America's Pimpmaster General.

Court TV Host: Here's a question similar to one that Mila was asked before...

monteagle_93 asks: Trixi, there's always the concern that a sex worker was abused as a child. Is this true?

Trixi Starr: I can't speak for everybody, but I would say that of most people I've encountered, about a ratio of about 40 percent may have been. The question is also, was it violent physical abuse or sexual abuse?

Dennis Hof: Our research has shown that it's not any different at the brothel than the mainstream.

Trixi Starr: They want everybody that does sex videos to be unionized, they are fascinated with the sex industry, but they are not willing to recognize the sex industry as being a legitimate part of mainstream entertainment. "They" meaning the mainstream people of America.

Court TV Host: Speaking of activism in this area...

fedmee31 asks: Are you a member of COYOTE?

Court TV Host: It's a group that wants to legalize prostitution called Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics.

Dennis Hof: She's not and none of the working girls are. COYOTE would like the total legalization and decriminalization of prostitution without any controls, they've gotten nowhere with that approach.

Trixi Starr: I am part of the Free Speech Coalition.

akthaq22 asks: Don't you feel if some of the other states, especially neighboring ones, legalized prostitution it would pull away your clientele?

Dennis Hof: Absolutely, but it needs to be done. The laws against prostitution are ridiculous. It's no different than Prohibition. It doesn't work.

akthaq22 asks: Do you ever get protesters there?

Dennis Hof: No We're very much involved in the community. We give back to the community We're the biggest taxpayer in the community. In fact, all of the womens' right organizations were recently polled, and they agreed that the Bunny Ranch is a choice of employment. They don't recommend a particular industry. They did say that if someone tried to take away a woman's choice, they would come to our battle. I think that a good mentality.

nanclyde77008 asks: Are the majority of your clients married men?

Dennis Hof: I would say 50-50. We don't ask. I would think a lot of people are married. The reason married guys come to the bunny ranch is that their spouses are not doing something. Men typically don't receive the type and quantity of sex that they want.

Court TV Host: Thanks so much for joining us...any closing thoughts?

Dennis Hof: In summary, prostitution should be legalized, and there's no business like ho' business.

Trixi Starr: Take care of yourself, and make sure other people take care of each other.

Court TV Host: Thanks so much for joining us.

Court TV Host: We've had a number of people ask whether you have a website.

Dennis Hof: Nevada has asked us not to do a website but our email address is: [email protected]

Court TV Host: Thanks again.

Dennis Hof: One last thing. If you want to protect your individual rights, you'd better vote Democratic.

Trixi Starr: Independent liberal Democrats, that's what we are.

Court TV Host: A political endorsement!