An interesting(?) story revolves around one of the few legal brothels in the US.
So far as I've heard, Nevada is the only state where prostitution is legal, and even there it's a "local option." Other states may have a wide variation in how criminal it's considered.
The famous "Mustang Ranch" has operated as a legal brothel in Nevada, an hours drive from the nearest settlement, for a very long time -- at least a few decades.
A few years ago, the US Internal Revenue Service siezed the business in a tax evasion suit, which left the US Government in the position of owning (and for a time operating) a brothel.
The property has now been sold to (a) new private owner(s), reportedly in a classical "ten cents on the dollar" transaction, and is attempting to recover its former respectability; although details of just who (or what) now owns it seems pretty murky.
At one time one could buy, for the friend who had everything, a "share" in the Ranch. The "stock certificate" was rife with mumbo-jumbo legaleze making clear that it was a "souvenir" certificate and represented no "ownership" in the business, but as I recall someone (Maybe a Playboy article) said that at one point they represented an equivalence value of "one square foot of a bedsheet used by ???? at the Mustang ranch," and you could pick your favorite lady to fill in the ????.