AN Irish prostitute working in a legal brothel in Nevada has told how she believes the industry should be legalised here.

Alice Little, who was born in Dublin and moved to America aged five, has been working at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Carson City for two years.

4 Alice moved to the US when she was five

Since she started at Moonlite, which is owned by sex tycoon Dennis Hof, the 4ft 8in beauty has worked her way up from a novice to the No1 prostitute at the ranch — banking €800,000 to date.

Alice, who is in her 20s, said she has always loved working with people, and making great money at the ranch while caring for others is a perfect fit.

She explained: “I’d worked many different odd jobs, from being a jockey at racetracks to being an emergency medical technician, to being a massage therapist.

“The humanist component is incredibly important to me. At the end of the day we’re all human and we all deserve to be cared about regardless of disabilities, regardless of erectile dysfunction, regardless of sexual experience.

“For me, it’s a job that involves a lot of caring.”

And Alice, who visits her family back in Ireland every other year, thinks prostitution should be legalised in the country of her birth.

4 Alice says she loves working with people

She said: “I think it would be a fantastic thing. It’s absolutely heartbreaking the sheer amount of opposition that they’re facing over there with regards to sex work.

“They’re cracking down more and more, especially in Northern Ireland right now.

"We’ve had prostitution since the dawn of time, it’s the oldest profession and it’s not going anywhere. If we legalise it it’s better for everyone.”

This is Alice’s first job as a prostitute, and she told how her first couple of months as a working girl were really eye-opening.

She said: “The money was fantastic, but really what I expected least was the sheer amount of amazing connections that I would make, with the girls, the staff and the clients.” And she said she has the full support of her Irish family in her career choice.

4 Alice is the number one earner at Bunny Ranch

She added: “Thankfully my family has been very open-minded and incredibly caring.

“What it really comes down to is that here in the States, they know it’s legal, they know it’s safe, they know I’m well cared for.”

Hof recently announced that he is exploring and embracing advances in sex technology that could lead to sexbots being available at the Bunny Ranch as early as 2019.

And while some ‘Bunnies’ reckon sexbots mark the end for their profession, Alice — the top earner of Hof’s pool of over 500 working girls — has a different perspective.

The redhead said: “I don’t see sex robots as my competition, as much as a tool that I can use to augment my client’s experience.

“We work with a lot of adult virgins with extreme levels of shyness and very limited sexual experience.

4 Alice said her parents are very supportive

“Many of these virgins are very nervous when they’re with a woman for the first time and could benefit from having a transitional sexbot to ease them into intercourse with a human woman.”

But her colleague Tiara Tae argued: “I’m not thrilled about the prospect of sharing the stage with an appliance. It’s challenging enough competing with dozens of other working girls, now I have to compete with the Terminator too?”

Hof spoke at Trinity College Dublin four years ago and insisted legalising prostitution “was the only way” to stop sex trafficking.

He added: “The people who don’t like prostitution, basically they’re enabling sex traffickers to operate in Ireland by not allowing legal brothels with mandatory health checks, ID checks, work cards and things like that.

“I am a partner with these girls, I am not a pimp. I’m a good partner — I’m a businessman.”