Louis and the Brothel is a British documentary that was televised on 9 August 2003. It was a Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux

Louis Sebastian Theroux is an English broadcaster best known for his Gonzo style journalism on the television series Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends and When Louis Met.... His career started off in journalism and bears influences of notable writers in his family such as his father, Paul Theroux and...

 documentary ran for 60 minutes. In the documentary Louis visited the Wild Horse Adult Resort & Spa

Wild Horse Adult Resort & Spa

The Wild Horse Adult Resort and Spa is an adult entertainment complex about 14 miles east of Reno, Nevada, USA which currently is home to two separate legal, licensed brothels: the Wild Horse Ranch and the Mustang Ranch...

 brothel.

Louis Theroux would revisit the subjects of the documentary in his book The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures. Haley one of the original participants of the documentary has since left prostitution and become a born again Christian.

Reception

The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

 described how "the most compelling stories come from the clients themselves." The Herald

The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, and available throughout Scotland. As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 47,226, giving it a lead over Scotland's other 'quality' national daily, The Scotsman, published in Edinburgh.The 1889 to 1906 editions...

described the documentary as "a documentary cliche How many British filmmakers have been titillated by the fact that prostitution is legal in Nevada"