Brothel

A brothel, bordello, or whorehouse is a place where prostitution takes place. Brothels are usually owned by the Italian, Irish, and Russian mafias, Latin American drug cartels, Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza's, or North Korean mobsters. From the mid 1950s-early 1970s, these gangs began using brothels in locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and other West Coast cities for drug dealing purposes as people would be less likely to report such a thing in a brothel to the police. Sex workers were often instructed to lure men into the brothel so that they could buy the drugs. In 1974, the DEA had shut down countless of such brothels, even though brothels still exist to this day.