The best little whorehouse owned by the federal government may actually trade riders for horses.
It's almost two months since the Mustang Ranch was padlocked in a federal fraud and racketeering case. And the federal Bureau of Land Management is mulling a plan to convert the Mustang's main pink ranch building into an interpretive center for its Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Center, says the Associated press.
This plan, BLM district manager John Singlaub tells the AP, is easy to make jokes about but also makes sense.
The adoption center is said to have outgrown its current facility in Palomino Valley, some fifteen miles northeast of Reno.
The West is said to have some 44,000 wild horses, half of which are found in Nevada, the AP says. The BLM captures some of the animals and puts them up for adoption to ease overpopulation, the wire service adds.
In addition to those services, the interpretive center might also feature historical exhibits, a wild horse research center, and an equestrian center.
The Mustang Ranch first became famed in the 1950s, when it was opened by Joseph Conforte during a time when prostitution remained illegal in Nevada. Prostitution was legalized there in 1971, with the Mustang becoming Nevada's first legal brothel. That led to legalizing prostitution in twelve of Nevada's seventeen counties.
