clipped from: www.cnn.com PAHRUMP, Nevada (AP) -- Nicki Amouri hands her camera to a friend, throws her arm over another and smiles wide as she leans in for a shot with the monument her class came to visit.
It's a typical field trip memento -- except that Amouri is visiting a brothel. The monument is a fluffy, queen-sized bed in a Western-themed party room reserved for VIPs and big spenders.
Amouri was one of a dozen Randolph College students who took a tour last week of the Chicken Ranch, a legal bordello in the desert 60 miles outside Las Vegas. The class trip, which included seminars from the working girls, capped a course on American consumption and "the ideas that consume us."
"I think it's fascinating, this is fun for me," said Amouri, a junior at the private liberal arts school in Lynchburg, Virginia, that until last year admitted only women. "Not many people get to do this."