Bwahahaha!

What do the University of Oregon's history department in Eugene, Ore.; the Happy Ending bar in Manhattan; and the Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D. have in common?

According to Google Maps, the for-free location and driving instructions service that the San Francisco-based search giant operates, all are identified as houses of ill repute.

American users who enter their Zip codes in the search field at Google Maps, then type in "brothel" (without the quotation marks) are shown a map with various business and organizations identified as, yes, bordellos.

I wonder how many words there are in English for a brothel. (brodello, whorehouse, and?)

Thesaurus.com says:

bawdy house, bordello, call house, cathouse, chicken ranch, crib, disorderly house, hook shop, massage parlor, red-light district, stew, whorehouse

Chicken ranch?

chicken ranch? That puts a whole nother spin on Frank Purdue's business, doesn't it?

I find crib somewhat disturbing.

And stew?

Yeah, I'm a little unclear on "stew" as well.

Crib is old -- I know I just read it in a story about gold-rush era Alaska.

Stew is old, too; I think it's in Shakespeare.

I find crib somewhat disturbing.

It makes me want to say "Pimp my crib" which would be oddly appropriate.

I think this board would make an interesting sociology study

Not much more then any other boards, I don't think. That above discussion happens on web sites, USENET, mailing lists -- it's the nature of the beast. We're so unspecial.