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The two ladies of the Women’s Institute arrived promptly for their appointment at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada. They were greeted by the ranch owner, Dennis Hof, wearing a sharp suit, a fat cigar in his mouth and two nubile blondes at his side.

Jean Johnson, the 62-year-old wife of a retired British Airways captain, and Shirley Landels, a 73-year-old engineer’s widow, were there to make an inspection to report back to their Women’s Institute branches back in Hampshire, England.

Would this rather garish brothel, plonked surreally in the middle of the Nevada desert in the U.S., be a suitable model for similar establishments back home, they wondered?

So what, precisely were these Hampshire grandmothers doing, weighing up the pros and cons of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch?

The ranch was one of a number of brothels visited by the pair in Holland, America and New Zealand as part of their ‘research’ for the campaign by Hampshire WI to decriminalise prostitution.

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