The Mustang Ranch was the most famous cathouse in the United States, maybe the most famous in the world, with more than 100,000 men annually trekking through her bedroom doors, all hoping to satisfy “the urge”.
One hundred and one partying rooms in two buildings, with dozens of captivating women working twelve hour shifts.
Men coming to satisfy every imaginable sexual fantasy in every possible orifice, where there was no such thing as an anatomical impossibility as long as the price was right. Cum by gallons. Billions of spermatozoa: deliquescent crystalline aliphatic tetramines flagellating up streams of semen actively seeking ovums everywhere.
But chances of finding them at the Mustang Ranch today are about as slim as finding Pacific salmon swimming in Red Fish Lake in Idaho.
On August 9, 1999, after more than two decades of trying to close the Mustang Ranch the federal government quietly took over the pink stucco ranch and politely ushered the prostitutes out of the pussy palacio and padlocked the doors.
The property was forfeited to the U.S. government and Bureau of Land Management after guilty verdicts for fraud and racketeering were decided against the parent companies of the Mustang Ranch.
And what a sex therapy tragedy this was, for once upon a time, on a busy night, 50 to 100 rooms were being worked non-stop by girls partying with marines, cowboys, businessmen, legislators, doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs.
Men with pendulous scrotums, turgid penises engorged with blood. As hard as polished steel. Like heat-seeking missiles, cocked and triggered. Immense projectiles, as large as presto logs, smoldering with desire.
The women at Mustang had seen every shape and size. You might call it the “one-eyed monk”, “blue throbber”, “majestic spire” “magic wand” “Cyclops” “little chubby”, or “friend”.
They called it bread and butter.
Bread & Butter?
At the Mustang Ranch volume was so tremendous that a good working girl could gross $150,000 a year for sex. It’s known as the “time utilization factor” to her, and depending on what a customer wanted it could cost anywhere from five dollars to one hundred dollars per minute or more.
Out call dates were especially lucrative for the women.
The turn-over rate for working girls at the Mustang Ranch, like other houses, varied. Some girls lasted ten minutes, others ten years or longer. Not everyone is cut out to be a hooker. Some girls are better than others. But, there is always a ready supply of girls to step in and fill the void.
They would call up every day asking for work.
They knew that men would always be there, for deer season, the Reno air races, for the camel races in late September, as well as for the snowmobile races in January. Millions of tourists fly into Reno annually and the airport was just a few miles away. The cab drivers knew where it was, and were more than happy to drive you out, wait while you played, and take you back to town for a reasonable fare.
Storey County was the first to legalize (as opposed to accept) prostitution in America. Joe Conforte was the man who worked the hardest to make it all possible and Mustang Ranch was the epitome of his efforts.
That was then.
In November of 2003, the Mustang Ranch I, and Mustang Ranch II were sold on Ebay auctions by the Bureau of Land Management, to two separate brothel owners.
Mustang Ranch I was bought by the owners of the Wild Horse Canyon Brothel (located a few miles east) for a reported price of $140,000. Mustang Ranch II was purchased by Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlight Bunny Ranch located outside of Carson City, for a reported $18,000.
Both parties were required to remove the buildings from their existing sites, restore the grounds to a natural habitat, and relocate the buildings elsewhere. Both parties expressed desires to convert the former cathouses into brothel museums, for which they legally could advertise
Today, however, the issue of who owns the name and licensing rights to the Mustang Ranch remains open to debate depending on who you listen to.
Some people consider Mustang to be a location only, a name that cannot be transferred. The owners of the Old Bridge Ranch have stated that they might own the name and rights to Mustang Ranch, that the only things sold were two buildings. Stay tuned.
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