However, if one scratches that surfaces a bit harder, they’ll find that the movie is actually a pretty scathing satire about the ways sexual freedom can (and has) been needlessly turned into a crime by puritanical figures—an idea that highly resonated with the queer community of when the movie was made, and also still unfortunately today. Its titular “whorehouse” is the Chicken Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the fictional town of Gilbert, Texas. It’s about a Texas town where the winners of the Thanksgiving football game are given a night with the Chicken Ranch girls.