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call houses

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plural of call house

as in bawdy houses

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And the Safe Sleep for Babies Act, signed into federal law in 2022, outright banned the sale of drop-side cribs and crib bumpers that could potentially suffocate infants.

— Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025

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In December, Santa Clara County officials charged members of a different family with running a network of 10 brothels in cities that included Cupertino.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Though Diestel went on to make clear that no one was proposing to turn bedrooms into brothels, introducing sexuality into a sacred context was enough to shake the little world of interconnected townspeople.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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