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List of red-light districts

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List of red-light districts

Red-light districts are areas associated with the sex industry and sex-oriented businesses (e.g. sex shops and strip clubs). In some of these places prostitution occurs, whether legally or illegally. The enforcement of prostitution laws varies by region.

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De Wallen red-light district in Amsterdam

Following is a partial list of well known red-light districts around the world, both current and historical.

Africa

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Algeria

Prostitution is legal but third-party involvement is prohibited.

See also: Prostitution in Algeria

Burkina Faso

Prostitution is not specifically prohibited by the law,[2] but soliciting and pimping are illegal.[3]

Egypt

Prostitution in Egypt is illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Egypt

Ivory Coast

Prostitution in Ivory Coast is legal.

See also: Prostitution in Ivory Coast

Kenya

Prostitution is illegal.[8]

See also: Prostitution in Kenya

Mauritania

Prostitution in Mauritania is illegal.[11]

Morocco

Prostitution is illegal.[12]

See also: Prostitution in Morocco

South Africa

Prostitution is illegal.[16]

See also: Prostitution in South Africa

Tunisia

Prostitution is regulated.[20]

See also: Prostitution in Tunisia

Asia

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Bangladesh

Prostitution in Bangladesh is legal and regulated.[20]

See also: Prostitution in Bangladesh

Cambodia

Prostitution is illegal, but tolerated.

See also: Prostitution in Cambodia

China

Prostitution is illegal.[28]

See also: Prostitution in China

Hong Kong

Prostitution itself is not illegal but operating a brothel is illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Hong Kong

India

Prostitution is legal when performed by a person acting alone in private but public solicitation, brothels and pimping are illegal (however in practice prostitution is tolerated and regulated).

See also: Prostitution in India

Indonesia

See also: Prostitution in Indonesia

Prostitution is illegal in non-regulated areas. Prostitution is legal in some locations (including pimping and maintaining a brothel).

Iran

See also: Prostitution in Iran

Prostitution in Iran is illegal, and incurs various punishments ranging from fines and jail terms to execution for repeat offenders.[20]

Iraq

See also: Prostitution in Iraq

Prostitution in Iraq is illegal, and penalties are severe.

Israel

See also: Prostitution in Israel

Japan

See also: Prostitution in Japan

Prostitution is illegal but narrowly defined. Many sexual acts for pay that would be considered to be prostitution in other countries are legal.[67]

Jordan

Prostitution is illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Jordan

Kyrgyzstan

Prostitution is legal but pimping and operating a brothel are illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Kyrgyzstan

Malaysia

Prostitution in most of Malaysia is legal and widespread, though there are laws against prostitution-related activities. However, prostitution is illegal in Malaysia's Kelantan state.

See also: Prostitution in Malaysia

South Korea

Prostitution is illegal, but in practice it is tolerated and regulated.

See also: Prostitution in South Korea

Pakistan

Prostitution is illegal, but in practice it is somewhat tolerated although not regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Pakistan

Philippines

Prostitution is illegal, but widespread and generally tolerated.[107]

See also: Prostitution in Philippines

Singapore

Prostitution itself is not illegal; however, public solicitation, living on the earnings of prostitution, and maintaining a brothel are illegal.[114]

See also: Prostitution in Singapore

Taiwan

Prostitution in Taiwan was made illegal under a 1991 law. Legislation was introduced in 2011 to allow local governments in Taiwan to set up "special zones" where prostitution is permitted. Outside these zones prostitution is illegal. As of 2017 no "special zones" had been opened.[118]

See also: Prostitution in Taiwan

Thailand

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Soi Cowboy, Thailand

Prostitution is illegal in Thailand, and solicitation and public nuisance laws are in effect. In practice it is tolerated and partly regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Thailand

Turkey

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Turkey

Europe

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Austria

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Austria

Belgium

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Rue d'Aerschot, Brussels
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Glazen Straatje, Ghent
Main article: Red-light districts in Belgium

Prostitution is legal, though brothels are not.[139] Enforcement of the law can be lax.

See also: Prostitution in Belgium

Croatia

Prostitution is illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Croatia

Czech Republic

Prostitution is legal, but brothels and other forms of procuring are prohibited.

See also: Prostitution in the Czech Republic

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Denmark

Prostitution is legal, but running brothels and pimping are illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Denmark

Finland

Prostitution is legal, but running brothels and pimping are illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Finland

France

Paying for sex, pimping and keeping a brothel are illegal. Prostitutes commit no offence unless soliciting.

See also: Prostitution in France

Germany

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Bahnhofsviertel in Frankfurt am Main
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Reeperbahn in Hamburg-St. Pauli
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Herbertstraße in Hamburg-St. Pauli

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Germany

Gibraltar

Prostitution illegal.

See also: Prostitution in the British Overseas Territories § Gibraltar
  • Seruya's Ramp, (Calle Peligro) (defunct)[192]

Greece

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Greece

Ireland

Paying for sex is illegal, as is soliciting in a public place, operating brothels, and other forms of pimping.

See also: Prostitution in the Republic of Ireland

Italy

Prostitution in Italy is legal, although organized prostitution, whether indoors in brothels or controlled by third parties, is prohibited.

See also: Prostitution in Italy

Luxembourg

Prostitution is legal, but running brothels and pimping are illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Luxembourg

Malta

Prostitution is legal, but running brothels and pimping are illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Malta

Netherlands

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A scene from De Wallen, Amsterdam's red light district, of a man negotiating with a sex worker.
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Achterdam at night (Alkmaar)

Prostitution and associated activities are legal and common. A total of 11 cities in the Netherlands have red light districts with window prostitution.[206]

See also: Prostitution in the Netherlands

Portugal

Prostitution is legal, but running brothels and pimping are illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Portugal

Serbia

Spain

Brothels are illegal (since 1956), but "clubs" and "wiskerias" are fronts for prostitution and are tolerated.

See also: Prostitution in Spain

Switzerland

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Switzerland

United Kingdom

See also: Prostitution in the United Kingdom

England

Prostitution is not illegal when performed by a person acting alone in private, but public solicitation, brothels and pimping are. The Policing and Crime Act 2009 makes it illegal to pay for sex with a prostitute who has been "subjected to force" and this is a strict liability offence (clients can be prosecuted even if they did not know the prostitute was forced).[248][249]

Northern Ireland

See also: Prostitution in Northern Ireland

Scotland

See also: Prostitution in Scotland

Wales

North America

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Antigua and Barbuda

Prostitution is legal, but related activities are prohibited.[20]

See also: Prostitution in Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba

Prostitution is legal and regulated.[288]

Barbados

Prostitution is legal, but related activities such as brothel keeping and solicitation are prohibited.[20]

Canada

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Centre-Sud neighbourhood of Montreal

Prostitution is legal but the purchase of sexual services is not (the client commits the offence not the prostitute). Many associated activities (brothels, advertising, street walking) are also illegal.

See also: Prostitution in Canada
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Rue Dufresne, was notorious for prostitution and drug houses from the 1990s to 2010s
  • Vancouver
    • Chinatown, Vancouver (historic): Dupont Street, between Westminster Ave (Main Street) and Carrall, was Vancouver's first official red light district which began when Bridie Stewart set up a shop at 101 Dupont. The district was relocated in 1906 to Shanghai and Canton Alley, which collaboratively hosted 105 brothels. It was later closed and relocated to Shore Street, then Alexander in 1912.[304]
    • West End, Vancouver: An unofficial city red-light district located on and around Davie Street. The sex work hub from the 1960s-1983.[305] Coined the "Prostitution Capitol of Canada", which served as a safe community where cisgender, transgender, and two-spirit workers of many ages worked together and looked out for each other's safety.[306][307] The location of the informative documentary Hookers on Davie.[306] Diminished by the 1983 injunction formed by the Concerned Residents of the West End (CROWE) which forcefully displaced sex workers out of the West End.[305]
    • Downtown Eastside: An unlisted district in Vancouver where workers face routine violence and harassment.[308] The Downtown Eastside is the sex trades final destination of city displacement over several years. In 2003, a large number of sex workers went missing and/or were murdered. Many of these were tied to serial killer Robert Pickton, and were the largest contributor to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) cases over the years.[309] Today workers are increasingly facing the effects of new developments and surveillance that are pushing them into isolated areas where they are at greater risk of harm; forcing them to rush or forgo screening and negotiation processes that puts them at a greater risk of bad dates and STI contraction.[310][308]

Costa Rica

Prostitution is legal, but related activities such as brothel keeping are illegal.[2]

See also: Prostitution in Costa Rica

Guatemala

Prostitution is legal, but procuring is prohibited.[312]

Mexico

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The Tamyko brothel in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

See also: Prostitution in Mexico

Panama

United States

Prostitution laws vary by state and territory, however it is illegal except for some rural counties of Nevada. Strip clubs are legal in most areas, including fully nude strip clubs. Many massage shops offer "happy endings", which is an illegal form of prostitution.

See also: Prostitution in the United States

Oceania

Australia

Prostitution laws vary by state, either being legal or decriminalized.

See also: Prostitution in Australia

New Zealand

Prostitution and associated activities are legal.

See also: Prostitution in New Zealand

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