Bella S Cummins

Madam

Madam Bella has a vision and states that her mission is to “empower women working in the sex industry by choice to be catalysts for something so necessary, and that is an understanding of human sexual desires, and for all genders to realize that without safe, nonjudgmental sexual interaction we may never evolve to our full potential as an intelligent species.”
Madam Bella's Hacienda is a legal brothel located in Wells, Nevada. It has been owned and operated by Madam Bella for over 34 years. Madam Bella is proprietor of the only woman-owned brothel in Nevada and her business hosts over 7300 patrons per year. Over her years in business, Madam Bella's business has hosted more than a quarter of a million customers.
Inspired by a successful Venetian renaissance movement in the 1500s called the Onesta, which sought to improve the health and safety of society by elevating the avocation of the courtesan with education and cultural refinement, Ms. Cummins has incorporated the Nevada nonprofit Onesta Foundation to educate and advocate for a Sensual Services industry that surpasses the original Onesta in benefit to community, to workers and to future generations of Nevadans.
Currently, the foundation is participating in a documentary production for international distribution and facilitating research projects for teams from UNR and Baylor University studying aspects of occupational stigma and gathering first-hand data of workers’ perceptions of opportunities in the legal Sensual Services industry.
With knowledge and collaboration, her design is to communicate and educate the public to modify perception and bring stakeholders in both public and private sectors together to strategically manage a new direction that will ensure that Nevada’s Sensual Services industry is a blueprint for the world.
Madam Bella is full of intelligence, respect, warmth, and wisdom and her professionalism is contagious. She runs her life with honesty, introspection, high standards and a spirituality that pervades the place and creates a positive environment.