In her 10 years of being a sex worker, Hannah Whitmore Foxx has catered to everyone - business men, out-of-towners, married people, and even couples.
She's also worked with clients who have more specific needs, whether that is help getting out of their wheelchair or writing their safe word down because they're unable to speak.
And many of them are less focused on sex and more interested in practicing their dating skills over dinner or a movie.
Some even bring their parents or partners for supervision to appointments with Ms Whitmore Foxx, a courtesan at Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada, one of America's few legally licensed brothels.
She's also one of even fewer workers who 'specialize' in working with clients who have physical and developmental disabilities.
Licensed courtesan Jupiter Jetson, who works at Sheri's Ranch in Nevada, said she also works with 'people from most ends of the disability spectrum,' including clients with autism, down syndrome, war injuries, cerebral palsy, and varying degrees of paralysis.
Both women work in the only US state where prostitution is legal, but even then, the practice is forbidden in nearly half of the counties.
They told DailyMail.com while America's criminalization creates a taboo around the industry in general, providing services for people with disabilities has drawn even more criticism.
Hannah Whitmore Foxx, pictured here, has spent 10 years as a legal courtesan in Nevada. Many of her clients have physical and cognitive disabilities
Licensed courtesan Jupiter Jetson (pictured here), who works at Sheri's Ranch in Nevada, said that she has 'seen people from most ends of the disability spectrum'
Ms Jetson told DailyMail.com: 'People tend to infantilize those with disability. Whether it is physical or cognitive, you will be treated as somebody who has less agency no matter what, and that extends to sexuality 100 percent.
'The biggest misconception is people with disabilities do not desire human touch, gratification, and companionship. That is a basic human need, but removing sexuality is just one more way that society at large tends to dehumanize the disabled community.'
Ms Jetson said: 'Sex is something that is vital for humans. Everyone deserves the access and the ability to be taken care of.
'There's so much shame surrounding disabilities that [clients] are almost like, "Will you take me?" Absolutely we will take you and work with you.'
Ms Whitmore Foxx estimates 15 to 20 percent of Bunny Ranch visitors have some form of disability.
She notes all of her clients are unique and 'no one person has ever needed the same thing. They've all needed something that was different. It's catered to them.'
She noted one roadblock many of her disabled clients is erectile dysfunction and low sex drive from their medications.
Antidepressants, anticonvulsants, muscle relaxants, and drugs for neurological conditions like Parkinson's disease have all been shown to increase erectile dysfunction by altering hormones or nervous system signals.
Ms Whitmore Foxx said: 'Depending on what medications people are put on for varying disabilities, I can show them how to change the way you're positioned or how to use different tactics to get them to orgasm for the first time.
'That's one of the main things that you can help somebody with disabilities overcome, is actually being able to figure out what works for their body specifically with the medications that they have to take.'
Ms Jetson, pictured here, told DailyMail.com that people with physical and mental disabilities are often 'infantilized,' leading people to believe they don't care about or deserve sex
For clients with cognitive disabilities or speech issues, Ms Whitmore Foxx may meet with their parents to help go over guidelines. Ms Whitmore Foxx is pictured here
For a client with cerebral palsy, Ms Whitmore Foxx may specifically avoid taking them into a hot jacuzzi tub, as the temperature can make muscle movement drugs less effective.
She may also offer an autistic client a soundproof room without fluorescent lighting, as they may otherwise get distracted and become overwhelmed.
This is also true for Ms Jetson.
She said: 'There is no one-size-fits-all to how I adapt my experiences. But for wheelchair users, it involves adapting positions and figuring out different angles that things can work from.
'For people on the [autism] spectrum who may have sensory issues, this might look like taking their requests for how they would like the lighting, the music, the levels of sound, things like that.'
With several autistic clients, Ms Whitmore Foxx will sit with them and lay out the entire date beforehand 'so they know the rules of the interaction before they come and don't have to worry about what is the right thing to do.'
One of Ms Whitmore Foxx's clients, a man with cerebral palsy, came in as a gift from his wife just a few weeks before undergoing brain surgery.
The wife helped her husband communicate his boundaries, and just before she left, she pulled Ms Whitmore Foxx in for a hug and thanked her.
'[The wife] said, "This is his once-a-year trip he gets to do that gives him this drive and desire with all of these surgeries and all of these things he goes through,"' Ms Whitmore Foxx told DailyMail.com.
In Ms Whitmore Foxx's most 'interesting' cases, disabled clients may bring their parents along so they can help communicate their child's needs and boundaries
'Their parent or their caregiver, whoever it is, can come in and talk. They can go out on the date with us, if they choose.'
Some parents also choose to email Ms Whitmore Foxx a list of guidelines.
Ms Whitmore Foxx said her 'favorite thing' about working with disabled clientele is when they can use the skills they learn with her to form healthy relationships
Ms Jetson told DailyMail.com she generally only avoids working with clients who are completely non-verbal because they can't give 'enthusiastic consent.' However, in some cases, clients may write down their guidelines
Ms Jetson said her only limitations come into play when working with clients who are completely non-verbal.
She said: 'I need to have enthusiastic consent, even if it's not the best worded enthusiastic consent. You don't have to be completely verbal, but you have to express a desire to be partaking in what it is that's on offer.'
However, she did recall an instance in which a client was able to write his consent.
For Ms Whitmore Foxx, her services aren't just limited to the bedroom. In some cases, a client with a cognitive disability like autism may prefer to go out for dinner or a movie.
She said: 'A lot of neurodivergent people have a really, really hard time dating. Just being able to go out in public and having the stimulation of being in public, along with doing an activity, can be really difficult. So we can literally practice dating.
'People don't know that you can come here and work on your social skills and learn how to be comfortable being naked with another human being because people only think about the illegal industry.'
Those skills, in and out of the bedroom, may ultimately help clients learn how to form healthy relationships and have better sex.
This is Ms Whitmore Foxx's 'favorite thing' about working with disabled clientele.
She said: 'My favorite thing is when someone can say that they started to feel attractive again, and they could enjoy sex and someone could enjoy sex with them because they had felt not normal for so long.
'And I can teach them little things here and there that they can teach their future partners. Everybody deserves a good, healthy sex life.'
Sex work is largely criminalized in the US, and prostitution - exchanging sexual conduct for money - is only legal in certain parts of Nevada.
The practice is legal in 10 out of the state's 17 counties, and just six have at least one legal brothel in operation.
State law also prohibits prostitution in cities with over 700,000 people, so 'sin cities' like Las Vegas and Reno have also forbidden prostitution.
However, sex work aimed at disabled individuals has become more widespread in other areas of the world.
In Australia, sex work has been decriminalized in New South Wales, Northern Territory, and Victoria.
New South Wales is the most liberal of Australia's territories in this regard, decriminalizing sex work in 1979.
And in NSW, Australia's government-funded National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) covers sexual experiences with sex workers for disabled adults.
In the UK, it is legal to exchange sex for money, but sex workers are prohibited from contacting clients directly, such as through loitering or soliciting, or from running a brothel.
In 2021, the nation's Court of Protection ruled that care staff can legally help disabled clients access sex work services.
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