joe_haldeman @ 2012-01-07T15:23:00

Hmm . . . on reflection, I realize that the lovely woman who doffed her duds at the pool was _not_ a stripper.  She was a lady of the night, unless you hired her during the daytime.  The guy who brought her as a "date" had hired her for the evening, all on the up and up, from an "escort service."  She turned out to be a science fiction reader, and had a grand time.
 
She was the model for Pansy in _The Hemingway Hoax_.  The situation in the novel was true to life in the seventies, and for all I know still obtains.  Houses of prostitution were illegal, as was pimping.  But expecting money in return for sex was not illegal, and if the escort services were not legal, they were tolerated.  They probably made the profession safer.
  
Joe