Doctor finds human story while gathering research on Nevada's famed Mustang Ranch.(living)

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

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COPYRIGHT 2001 Las Vegas Review-Journal

BYLINE: JOHN PRZYBYS REVIEW-JOURNAL

It started as a research project. And, when it was over, Alexa Albert had both a book to write and a new perspective on an age-old institution.

Off and on for about six years, Albert lived at the Mustang Ranch brothel in Northern Nevada. She became friends with prostitutes and brothel employees, interviewed customers and learned about the day-to-day workings of a world most are fascinated with but few see.

The results of her work can be found in "Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women" (Random House, $24.95), Albert's first-person account of the time she spent learning about the women who work in Nevada's most peculiar legalized institution.

When she began her research in 1993, Albert already had become acquainted with street prostitution through time she spent as...

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