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After several years of a failed campaign to make Las Vegas family-friendly, Sin City has finally abandoned all pretence, and wholly embraced its hard-earned reputation as the modern day Sodom and Gommorah. Jack Sheehan is the ultimate Las Vegas insider. As a respected journalist and long-time Vegas resident, Sheehan is the perfect writer to uncover the dark underbelly of the Vegas sex industry. Through in-depth interviews and hours of observation, he takes the reader into a world where couples from the Midwest become uninhibited swingers, shy schoolgirls graduate to $1,000 a night stripping gigs, suburban mothers look back fondly on their days making serious cash in hardcore porn, and randy tourists support thousands of working girls earning a hard living. His intimate look at the world of porn, stripping, swinging, hustling, and hooking in Las Vegas is an exciting, and at times disturbing, look at one of the world's most permissive and fascinating cities. But while some readers will be satisfied just reading Sheehan's astute account of lascivious Las Vegas, the sidebars detailing the what, when, where, and how of the Las Vegas sex industry are perfect for those brave souls looking for action. Among many insider tips, Jenna Jameson, a Vegas girl born and bred, offers her favourite strip clubs; local strippers detail the best ways to get added attention from a lap dancer (and what not to say, unless you want to get slapped!); a Vegas cop offers advice for Johns who don't want to end up in the clink. No bachelor party, business traveller, or adventurous couple should leave home without their copy of Skin City .

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SKIN CITY is full of tips on negotiating Vegas' sexual landscape. -- Dallas Morning News

[E]ntertaining. --Library Journal Extremely well-written...goes on my shelf next to Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. --John Irsfeld, author of Little Kingdoms and Rats Alley Fascinating to read and much to contemplate. --Norm Clarke, Las Vegas Review Journal columnist Jack Sheehan did a great job exposing the underbelly of Las Vegas. A really fast read. --Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas Nothing is safe in a major league locker room...my copy will be stolen more often than third base. --Greg Maddux, Four-Time Cy Young Award Winning Pitcher Once you've read SKIN CITY, you'll be too busy having fun to ever play another round of blackjack again! --Ron Jeremy, Porn Legend SKIN CITY is full of tips on negotiating Vegas' sexual landscape. --Dallas Morning News This book was a true revelation to me, in more ways than I'd care to admit. --Peter Jacobsen, PGA Tour star To prospective Vegas conference attendees, Sheehan's effort well might prove invaluable.--Booklist Whether you love Vegas or think it's a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah...this book [is] impossible to put down. --Chris Moneymaker, 2003 World Series of Poker Champion and author of MONEYMAKER With an impressive roster of strippers, swingers, porn stars and prostitutes, Sheehan explores the very adult side of Vegas entertainment. --Kirkus Reviews

With an impressive roster of strippers, swingers, porn stars and prostitutes, Sheehan explores the very adult side of Vegas entertainment. Journalist Sheehan, who moved to Vegas when he was in his early 20s, is as close to a local as one can get in a town of transplants. As such, he knew where to look when it was time to expose the city's seamier side-although the various activities he discusses are so widely accepted in Las Vegas and, indeed, crucial to the city's municipal coffers, that they hardly qualify as illicit. In general, the author presents a decidedly sunny portrait of the sex industry. The strippers that Sheehan interviews find that they've never felt so strong and liberated as when they're onstage with their clothes off, and his porn-star sources love sex and are pleased to be getting paid to engage in it onscreen (sex is the funnest thing there is to do, one explains). Prostitutes are delighted by how much they can rake in from just a few hours of work, and swingers are amazed by their ability to find nightly parties where they can be as randy as they please. Yes, Sheehan elaborates on prejudices within the culture: Strippers would never get in bed with a man for money, while some prostitutes find it demeaning to dance in front of a room full of strangers. He gives a nod to pimps who exploit hookers, to deadbeat boyfriends who sponge off stripper girlfriends, and he points out that every once in a while, a working girl will be a bit introspective or depressed. But for the most part, this is a valentine to the industry. Bonus for those with plans to visit: Sheehan provides a number of sidebars with explicit instructions on how to behave in the underworld. If you'd like to know more about massage parlors and gentlemen's clubs, or learn the etiquette of mate swapping, here's one for you. Anything but subtle. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Jack Sheehan has written nine books, including The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas; Above Las Vegas; and Buried Lies: True Tales and Tall Tales from the PGA Tour (with Peter Jacobson). He has also sold three screenplays to Hollywood.

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