List of red-light districts#Asia

Prostitution is legal but third-party involvement is prohibited.

{{see also|Prostitution in Algeria}}

• Constantine
• Rahbat al-Jammal (defunct){{cite web |last1=Boukebba |first1=Abderrazak |title=The Algerian street where women are barred |url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/1/6/The-Algerian-street-where-women-are-barred |website=Alaraby |date=6 January 2016 |access-date=26 February 2018}}

Prostitution is not specifically prohibited by the law,{{cite web |title=The Legal Status of Prostitution by Country |url=http://chartsbin.com/view/snb |website=ChartsBin |access-date=5 January 2018}} but soliciting and pimping are illegal.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/af/135940.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315154616/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/af/135940.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 March 2010 |title=2009 Human Rights Report: Burkina Faso |publisher=State.gov |date=11 March 2010 |access-date=15 October 2011}}

• Ouagadougou
• Dapoya{{cite web |title=Exposé en Anglais sur la prostitution au Burkina Faso by Kader Rabo – mon exposé |url=http://monexpose.canalblog.com/archives/2017/02/16/34944819.html |website=Mon Expose |access-date=7 January 2018 |date=16 February 2017 |archive-date=7 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107061359/http://monexpose.canalblog.com/archives/2017/02/16/34944819.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Briggs |first1=Billy |title=Meet the pastor fighting people trafficking in Burkina Faso |url=https://theferret.scot/exposed-human-trafficking-sex-industry-burkina-faso/ |website=The Ferret |access-date=15 February 2020 |date=14 July 2014}}

Prostitution in Egypt is illegal.

{{See also|Prostitution in Egypt}}

• Alexandria
• Kom al-Nadura (defunct){{cite book |last1=Takla |first1=Nefertiti |title=he Paul Kinsie Reports for the League of Nations |volume=2|chapter=Prostitution in Alexandria, Egypt |series=United Nations Historical Series |date=19 July 2017 |pages=6–12 |doi=10.18356/aa63007e-en |isbn=9789210601566 |chapter-url=https://www.un-ilibrary.org/women-and-gender-issues/trafficking-in-women-1924-1926_aa63007e-en |language=en}}
• Kom Bakir (defunct)
• Al-Tartushi (defunct)
• Cairo
• Wagh El Birket (defunct){{Cite news |last1=Stone |first1=Andrew |title=NZ's lost city in Egypt |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10565096 |journal=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=4 April 2009}}

Prostitution in Ivory Coast is legal.

{{see also|Prostitution in Ivory Coast}}

• Abidjan
• Marcory Zone 4
• Rue Princesse

Prostitution is illegal.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119007.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226174753/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119007.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2009 |title=2008 Human Rights Report: Kenya |publisher=State.gov |access-date=7 September 2015}}

{{See also|Prostitution in Kenya}}

• Nairobi
• Koinange Street{{Cite web |year=2003 |url=http://www.wfn.org/2003/03/msg00041.html |title=Competition Forces Commercial Sex Workers To Go Day-time |publisher=All Africa News Agency |access-date=21 July 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615025646/http://www.wfn.org/2003/03/msg00041.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}{{cite book |title=DK Eyewitness Kenya Travel Guide |date=2015 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited |isbn=978-0-241-24649-8 |page=177 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b4EgCgAAQBAJ&q=Koinange+Street+red+light+district&pg=PA177 |language=en}}

Prostitution in Mauritania is illegal.{{cite web |title=Sex work for survival and profit |url=http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2005/02/17/sex-work-survival-and-profit |website=IRIN |access-date=11 March 2018 |date=17 February 2005}}

• Nouakchott
• El Mina

Prostitution is illegal.{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100602.htm |title=2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – Morocco |publisher=United States Department of State |date=11 March 2008 |access-date=25 January 2010}}

{{See also|Prostitution in Morocco}}

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• Casablanca
• Bousbir(defunct){{Citation |last=Harries |first=Alexander |year=2016 |title=Faire le bordel: The Regulation of Urban Prostitution in Morocco |location=Oxford |url=http://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/forms/Alex%20Harries%20Faire%20le%20Bordel.pdf }}
• Fez
• Moullay Abdullah (defunct)
• Marrakesh
• Bab el Khemis
• Rabat
• Oukassa (defunct)
• Tangier
• Petit Socco{{cite web |title=Petit Socco |url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/morocco/tangier/attractions/petit-socco/a/poi-sig/439112/355513 |website=Lonely Planet |access-date=7 December 2017}}{{cite book |last1=Peters |first1=Lucas |title=Moon Morocco |date=2019 |publisher=Avalon Publishing |isbn=978-1-64049-134-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tTSUDwAAQBAJ&q=Petit+Socco+red+light+district&pg=PT251 |language=en}}

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Prostitution is illegal.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119025.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226174952/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119025.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2009 |title=2008 Human Rights Report: South Africa |publisher=State.gov |access-date=7 September 2015}}

{{See also|Prostitution in South Africa}}

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• Durban
• Point Road{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4355531.stm |title=SA outcry at 'insult' to Gandhi |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 July 2006 |date=17 March 2005 |first=Grant |last=Clark}}
• Johannesburg
• Hillbrow{{cite web |last1=Gono |first1=Vincent |title=Is truth sacred for Zimbabwean girls in Hillbrow? |url=http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/is-truth-sacred-for-zimbabwean-girls-in-hillbrow/ |website=Daily News |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=27 March 2016}}{{cite book |last1=McDowell |first1=Tony |title=How Did I Get Here? |date=2018 |publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1-78901-020-6 |page=63 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsNPDwAAQBAJ&q=Hillbrow+red-light+district&pg=PA63 |language=en}}

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Prostitution is regulated.{{cite web |url=http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexworklaw/countries |title=Sexuality, Poverty and Law Programme – Theme: Sex Work Law |publisher=Institute of Development Studies |access-date=9 October 2017 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729103225/http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexworklaw/countries |url-status=dead }}

{{See also|Prostitution in Tunisia}}

• Tunis
• Sidi Abdallah Guech{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/salafist-intimidation-campaign-threatens-young-democracy-in-tunisia-a-870680.html |title=The Battle for the Future of Tunisia |last=Smoltczyk |first=Alexander |date=5 December 2012 |website=Spiegel Online}}

Prostitution in Bangladesh is legal and regulated.

{{see also|Prostitution in Bangladesh}}

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• Bagerhat District
• Bani Shanta{{cite web |last1=Gonzaga |first1=Luca Catalano |title=What monsoons won't wash away |url=http://www.witnessimage.com/stories/what-monsoons-wont-wash-away/ |website=Witness Image |access-date=16 December 2018}}
• Faridpur District
• Faridpur{{cite web |last1=Candela |first1=Miguel |last2=Aldama |first2=Zigor |title=The Brothels of Bangladesh |url=https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/the-brothels-of-bangladesh/ |website=The Diplomat |access-date=16 December 2018 |date=23 February 2015}}
• Narayanganj
• Tanbazar
• Rajbari District
• Daulatdia{{cite web |last1=Hammond |first1=Claudia |title=Claudia Hammond on prostitution in Bangladesh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/09/gender.humantrafficking |website=The Guardian |access-date=16 December 2018 |date=9 January 2008}}{{cite web |last1=Geray |first1=A. |last2=Hubner |first2=M. |title=Bangladesh – The world's largest brothel |url=https://www.bild.de/politik/international/politik-ausland/bangladesh-the-worlds-largest-brothel-59421714.bild.html |website=bild.de |access-date=15 February 2020 |language=de |date=8 January 2019}}
• Tangail District
• Kandapara{{cite web |last1=Dickerman |first1=Kenneth |title=Inside the legal brothels of Bangladesh |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/within-these-walls-inside-the-legal-brothels-of-bangladesh-a7388676.html |website=The Independent |access-date=16 December 2018 |language=en |date=31 October 2016}}

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Prostitution is illegal, but tolerated.

{{See also|Prostitution in Cambodia}}

• Phnom Penh
• Svay Pak{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3975965.stm |title=Cambodia's child sex shame |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 July 2006 |date=3 November 2004 |first=Julian |last=Pettifer}}

Prostitution is illegal.{{Cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119037.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226175344/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119037.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2009 |title=2008 Human Rights Report: China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) |publisher=U.S. State Department |date=25 February 2009}}

{{See also|Prostitution in China}}

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• Beijing
• Dashilan{{cite web |last1=Shujuan |first1=Lin |title=Dashilan deadline |url=http://www.chinadaily.cn/bjweekend/2006-03/24/content_551047.htm |website=China Daily |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928211829/http://www.chinadaily.cn/bjweekend/2006-03/24/content_551047.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007 |date=24 March 2006 |access-date=21 July 2006}}{{cite web |author1=Sun Jiahui |title=Bada Hutong: red-light district in Beijing |url=https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2015/07/bada-hutong-red-light-district-in-beijing/ |website=The World of Chinese |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=1 July 2015 |archive-date=16 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216001023/https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2015/07/bada-hutong-red-light-district-in-beijing/ |url-status=dead }}
• Shanghai
• Simalu{{Cite web |url=http://www.penchinese.net/en/meijing/meijing.htm |title=Remembrances of Huileli |publisher=Independent Chinese PEN Center |access-date=21 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008053133/http://www.penchinese.net/en/meijing/meijing.htm |archive-date=8 October 2007}}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Hong Kong}}

• Lockhart Road{{Cite news |year=2016 |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2051238/losing-sex-appeal-future-hong-kongs-red-light-districts |title=Losing sex appeal? The future of Hong Kong's red light districts |work=South China Morning Post |access-date=4 December 2016}}
• Sham Shui Po/Fuk Wa Street{{cite web |last1=Yau |first1=Penelope |title=Life as a Prostitute |url=http://varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk/varsity/0303/periscope_a.htm |website=varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk |access-date=19 August 2018}}

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}}

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• Prayagraj
• Meergunj{{cite news |url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/uttar-pradesh/sex-racket-busted-in-allahabad-19-women-detained_776026.html |title=Sex racket busted in Allahabad, 19 women detained |work=Zee News |date=17 May 2012 |access-date=7 September 2015}}
• Bundi
• Mohanpura{{cite web |title=A 'Tradition' In Rajasthan Pushes Daughters Into Prostitution – Everylifecounts.NDTV.com |url=https://everylifecounts.ndtv.com/a-tradition-in-rajasthan-pushes-daughters-into-prostitution-7623 |website=Everylifecounts.NDTV.com |access-date=19 August 2018 |date=8 December 2016}}
• Gwalior
• Rashmpura{{cite web |title=एशिया के बड़े जिस्म बाजार, जहां लगती है वेश्याओं की मंडी... |trans-title=Big Jism market in Asia, where the prostitutes market ... |url=http://hindi.webdunia.com/national-hindi-news/red-light-area-india-116071300096_1.html |website=hindi.webdunia.com |access-date=16 December 2018 |language=hi}}
• Hyderabad
• Mehboob Ki Mehandi{{cite web |last1=Shahid |first1=Sajjad |title=The courtesans of Hyderabad & Mehboob Ki Mehendi {{!}} Hyderabad News – Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/The-courtesans-of-Hyderabad-Mehboob-Ki-Mehendi/articleshow/17724790.cms |website=The Times of India |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=23 December 2012}}
• Jaipur
• Tilawala{{Cite web |year=2001 |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/06/03/stories/1303128f.htm |title=The ironies of Tilawala |website=The Hindu |access-date=21 July 2006|url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711170626/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/06/03/stories/1303128f.htm|archive-date=11 July 2011}}
• Jodhpur
• Jawaharkhana Ghaas Mandi{{cite web |url=https://www.patrika.com/jaipur-news/prostitution-start-again-in-gasmandi-jodhpur-1274606/ |title=Prostitution Start Again In Gasmandi Jodhpur – जिस्मफरोशी का जहर : फिर सजने लगा देह का बाजार {{!}} Patrika News |date=21 December 2014 |access-date=7 April 2021}}
• Kolkata
• Bowbazar{{cite report |first=Ilona |last=Bhattacharya |title=Vulnerability of Children Living in the Red Light Areas of Kolkata, India |url=http://www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/YPP_Research_indial.pdf |publisher=Sanlaap |access-date=16 December 2018 |date=July 2010 |archive-date=16 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216074514/http://www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/YPP_Research_indial.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• Garia{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Madison Leigh |title=Red Light City: Sex Workers' Experiences of the City of Joy |url=https://madisonleighrose.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/red-light-city-sex-workers-experiences-of-the-city-of-joy/ |website=Madison Leigh Rose |access-date=16 December 2018 |language=en |date=27 August 2012}}
• Kalighat{{cite web |last1=Gill |first1=Harsimran |title=Living in the Shadows |url=http://porterfolio.net/uploads/article/file/6273/Al_Jazeera__Living_in_the_Shadows.pdf |access-date=4 August 2018 |archive-date=4 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804201723/http://porterfolio.net/uploads/article/file/6273/Al_Jazeera__Living_in_the_Shadows.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• Kidderpore
• Kada Road, Durgapur
• Lebu Bagan
• Sonagachi{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4055143.stm |title=Girl-trafficking hampers Aids fight |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 July 2006 |date=30 November 2004 |first=Matthew |last=Grant}}
• Tollygunge
• Meerut
• Kabadi Bazar
• Mumbai
• Kamathipura{{Cite web |year=2001 |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/06/03/stories/1303128f.htm |title=The ironies of Kamathipura |website=The Hindu |access-date=21 July 2006 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605235405/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/06/03/stories/1303128f.htm |archive-date=5 June 2011}}
• Muzaffarpur
• Chaturbhuj Sthan{{Cite web |year=2001 |url=http://www.cms-uk.org/settingcaptivesfree/downloads/02_SCF_Children.pdf |title=Children of the red light district |publisher=Church Mission Society |access-date=21 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008154733/http://www.cms-uk.org/settingcaptivesfree/downloads/02_SCF_Children.pdf |archive-date=8 October 2006 |url-status=dead}}
• Nagpur
• Ganga Jamuna, SMS King, Itwari{{cite web |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Rohit |title=8 Largest Red Light Areas Across India |url=https://www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/red-light-areas-india/#.liry4brga |website=ScoopWhoop |access-date=16 December 2018 |language=en |date=2 May 2015}}
• New Delhi
• Garstin Bastion Road{{Cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.advocacynet.org/cpage_view/startingsmall_05education_19_105.html |title=Education for Victims – When Prostitutes Go to Jail... Sakuntala cares for their children |publisher=The Advocacy Project |access-date=21 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060422073518/http://www.advocacynet.org/cpage_view/startingsmall_05education_19_105.html |archive-date=22 April 2006 |url-status=dead}}
• Pune
• Budhwar Peth{{Cite web |year=2000 |url=http://www.advocacynet.org/cpage_view/startingsmall_05education_19_105.html |title=Education for Victims – When Prostitutes Go to Jail... Sakuntala cares for their children |publisher=The Advocacy Project |access-date=21 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060422073518/http://www.advocacynet.org/cpage_view/startingsmall_05education_19_105.html |archive-date=22 April 2006 |url-status=dead}}
• Sitamarhi
• Boha Tola – (burnt down in 2008){{cite web |last1=Mishra |first1=Mona |title=100-year-old Ganga Jamuna brothel in Nagpur under attack {{!}} Mona Mishra |url=https://www.saddahaq.com/100yearold-ganga-jamuna-brothel-in-nagpur-under-attack |website=www.saddahaq.com |access-date=16 December 2018 |date=25 February 2015}}
• Surat
• Chakla Bazar{{cite web |last1=Mehta |first1=Harit |agency=TNN |title=Red lights may go out of Surat's Chakla Bazaar |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Red-lights-may-go-out-of-Surats-Chakla-Bazaar/articleshow/180655.cms |website=The Times of India |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=13 September 2013}}
• Varanasi
• Dalamandi, near the Kashi Vishwanath Temple – (closed 1970s)
• Shivdaspur{{cite web |title=वाराणसी के रेड लाइट एरिया को लेकर जंग छिड़ी, धरना दे रहे लोगों का नगरवधुओं ने किया विरोध |trans-title=Varanasi's Red Light area wreaked havoc; townspeople protested against the people holding protesters |url=https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/uttar-pradesh/varanasi/fight-over-red-light-area-in-varanasi-continues/articleshow/62865197.cms |website=Navbharat Times |access-date=16 December 2018 |language=hi |date=10 February 2018}}

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{{see also|Prostitution in Indonesia}}

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

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• Batam
• Nagoya{{cite web |title=Commercial Sex Industry in Batam |url=http://www.globalindonesianvoices.com/25057/commercial-sex-industry-in-batam/ |website=Global Indonesian Voices |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=18 February 2016|archive-date=20 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220005138/http://www.globalindonesianvoices.com/25057/commercial-sex-industry-in-batam/}}{{cite web |title=Tourism Prostitution in Batam Became the Target Travelers Singapore – |url=https://wisatahiburan.com/tourism-prostitution-in-batam-became-the-target-travelers-singapore/ |website=WisataHiburan.Com |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=7 November 2015}}
• Jakarta
• Kalijodo (demolished on 29 February 2016, now a public park){{cite news |url=http://sea-globe.com/jakarta-transforms-red-light-district/ |title=How Jakarta transformed its biggest red-light district into a public park |first=Gabrielle |last=Lipton |newspaper=Southeast Asia Globe |date=17 May 2017 |access-date=13 August 2017 |archive-date=13 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813145845/http://sea-globe.com/jakarta-transforms-red-light-district/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last1=Puspitasari |first1=Maya Ayu |title=Gusur Kalijodo, Polisi Kerahkan 5.000 Personel |url=https://m.tempo.co/read/news/2016/02/27/083748824/gusur-kalijodo-polisi-kerahkan-5-000-personel |access-date=17 August 2017 |work=Tempo |date=27 February 2016 |language=id}}
• Kramat Tunggak (closed in 1999){{cite web |title=Editorial: Controlling prostitution |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/05/02/editorial-controlling-prostitution.html |website=The Jakarta Post |access-date=19 August 2018 |date=2 May 2015}}
• Deli Serdang
• Bandar Baru
• Surabaya
• Gang Dolly (closed in 2014){{cite news |url=http://jakartaglobe.id/news/dolly-done-se-asias-largest-red-light-district-closes/ |title=Gang Dolly Is Done as SE Asia's Largest Red Light District Closes |newspaper=Jakarta Globe |date=18 June 2014 |access-date=21 February 2018 |archive-date=22 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222043740/http://jakartaglobe.id/news/dolly-done-se-asias-largest-red-light-district-closes/ |url-status=dead }}

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{{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.

• Tehran
• Shahr-e No (demolished 1980){{cite web |last1=Bekiirad |first1=Joobin |title=No One Here Gets Out Alive: Kaveh Golestan's 'Prostitutes' Series |url=https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/no-one-gets-alive-kaveh-golestans-prostitutes-series/ |website=The White Review |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=February 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Sciolino |first1=Elaine |title=Rare Glimpses of Iran's Lost Underworld |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/arts/international/rare-glimpses-of-irans-lost-underworld.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=20 March 2014}}

{{See also|Prostitution in Iraq}}

Prostitution in Iraq is illegal, and penalties are severe.

• Baghdad
• Al-Battaween{{cite web |last1=Murray |first1=Rebecca |title=Female Trafficking Soars in Iraq |publisher=Inter Press Service |url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2011/08/female-trafficking-soars-in-iraq/ |website=www.ipsnews.net |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=27 August 2007}}
• Bataween{{cite web |last1=Ali |first1=Hussein |title=Baghdad Prostitutes Fall on Hard Times |url=https://iwpr.net/global-voices/baghdad-prostitutes-fall-hard-times |website=Institute for War and Peace Reporting |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=21 February 2005}}
• Haifa Street/Salhia neighborhood{{cite journal |last1=Iftimie |first1=Ion A. |title=Expeditionary energy economics (e3): the securitization of energy entrepreneurship during megacity counterinsurgencies (a NATO perspective) |journal=Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship |date=11 April 2018 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=4 |doi=10.1186/s13731-018-0083-6 |issn=2192-5372|doi-access=free|hdl=10419/194828 |hdl-access=free }}
• Kamaliyah{{cite news |last=Bassem |first=Wassim |title=Iraq's Sex Trade Thrives |url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/07/prostitution-iraq-sex-trade.html |access-date=19 July 2013 |newspaper=Al-Monitor Iraq Pulse |date=17 July 2013}} ({{langx|ar|الكمالية}})
• Zayouna{{cite news |title=Gunmen kill 29 women in attack on Baghdad brothel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10966533/Gunmen-kill-29-women-in-attack-on-Baghdad-brothel.html |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |access-date=16 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160607011439/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10966533/Gunmen-kill-29-women-in-attack-on-Baghdad-brothel.html |archive-date=7 June 2016 |date=14 July 2014 |url-status=live}}

{{See also|Prostitution in Israel}}

• Tel Aviv
• Old bus station area.{{Cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Vered |title=Empty Streets and Locked Doors: Prostitution Is Disappearing From Tel Aviv's Underbelly |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-prostitution-disappearing-from-an-old-tel-aviv-haunt-1.5454762 |journal=Haaretz |access-date=10 March 2018 |date=2 October 2017}}{{cite web |title=Sleeping beauties |url=http://www.emesebenko.com/sleeping-beauties |website=www.emesebenko.com |publisher=Emese Benko – Photography |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=de-DE}}

{{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.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119041.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226175205/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119041.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2009 |title=2008 Human Rights Report: Japan |publisher=State.gov |date=25 February 2009 |access-date=7 September 2015}}

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• Fukuoka
• Nakasu{{cite web |title=Enjoy a Safe Nakasu Experience |url=http://satsuma.two-o-five.com/fukuoka/nakasu/ |website=Satsuma Two O Five |access-date=7 December 2017 |archive-date=16 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216024336/http://satsuma.two-o-five.com/fukuoka/nakasu/ |url-status=dead }}
• Gifu
• Kanazuen{{cite web |title=Swiss 'sex boxes' take backseat to Japan's options for eroticism via automobile |url=http://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/104180.php |website=News on Japan |access-date=7 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827111807/http://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/104180.php |archive-date=27 August 2013 |date=24 August 2013}}
• Hokkaidō
• Susukino{{cite web |title=Pretty Japanese Girls in Sapporo's Red Light District |url=http://www.best-of-sapporo-japan.com/pretty-japanese-girls.html |website=Best of Sapporo Japan |access-date=25 January 2018}}
• Kyoto
• Shimabara (defunct){{cite web |title=SUMIYA |url=http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~sumiyaho/page/english.html |publisher=The Official Web Site of Sumiya |access-date=13 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111060754/http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~sumiyaho/page/english.html |archive-date=11 January 2009}}{{cite web |title=Shimabara Kyoto |url=https://www.japanvisitor.com/kyoto/kyoto-districts/shimabara-kyoto |website=www.japanvisitor.com |publisher=JapanVisitor Japan Travel Guide |access-date=16 February 2020}}
• Osaka
• Imasato Shinchi
• Jūsō{{cite web |title=Our Apartment and Juso |url=https://agc-cwm.travellerspoint.com/8/ |website=Tales From The Future |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=5 March 2006}}
• Kujo{{Cite web |url=http://www.japanzine.jp/article/jz/724/shitamachi-scenery-vol-1 |title=Shitamachi Scenery vol. 1 |website=Japanzine |date=1 October 2005}}
• Matsushima Shinchi{{cite web |title=The Definitive Guide to Tobita Shinchi Osaka |url=https://osakabros.com/definitive-guide-tobita-shinchi-osaka-foreigners/ |website=Osaka Bros |access-date=20 December 2018 |date=20 January 2018}}
• Shinchi Otobe (defunct){{cite web |last1=Schonherr |first1=Johannes |title=Tobita Shinchi |url=http://pinkvisitor.com/tobita-shinchi/ |website=Pink Visitor |access-date=20 December 2018}}
• Shinmachi
• Shinodayama Shinchi
• Tobita Shinchi{{cite web |title=Osaka rolls out red carpet, turns off red-light district for G-20 summit |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/osaka-rolls-out-red-carpet-not-red-light-district-for-g-20-summit |website=The Straits Times |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=27 June 2019}}
• Yoshiwara (defunct){{cite web |title=Yoshiwara (Tokyo), c. 1910–1920. |date=23 January 2015 |url=http://www.oldtokyo.com/yoshiwara-tokyo/ |publisher=Old Tokyo |access-date=16 February 2020}}
• Tokyo
• Kabukichō{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3708098.stm |title=Japan mulls multicultural dawn |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 July 2006 |date=5 October 2004}}
• Roppongi{{Cite web |year=2004 |url=http://www.japaninc.com/article.php?articleID=1285&page=4 |title=Redlight Reckoning |work=Japan Inc Magazine |access-date=21 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040815073926/http://www.japaninc.com/article.php?articleID=1285&page=4 |archive-date=15 August 2004}}
• Yoshiwara (defunct)Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Amy Reigle Newland, et al., A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour (Hotei, Amsterdam, 2004), pp. 9–11.

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Prostitution is illegal.

{{see also|Prostitution in Jordan}}

• Amman
• Jubeiha{{cite web |title=موقع خبرني : حملة شعبية لتطهير شارع "طلّعني" من بائعات الهوى |url=http://www.khaberni.com/news/70705 |website=موقع خبرني (Khaberni) |access-date=17 March 2018 |language=ar |date=3 March 2012 |trans-title=A popular campaign to clear the street of prostitutes}}
• Sweifieh{{cite web |title=THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT JORDAN TO HELP YOU PREPARE |url=http://ausameetings.org/sofex/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/02/Things-to-Know-About-Jordan.pdf |publisher=AUSA |access-date=16 February 2020}}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Kyrgyzstan}}

• Bishkek
• Pravda Street{{cite web |last1=Lochner |first1=Adriane |title=Kyrgyzstan: Vice Squad Driving Sex Work Underground |url=https://eurasianet.org/s/kyrgyzstan-vice-squad-driving-sex-work-underground |website=Eurasianet |access-date=23 January 2018 |date=16 May 2014}}

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}}

• Kuala Lumpur
• Brickfields area: Jalan Hicks and Jalan Thamibipilly{{cite web |last1=Wong |first1=Raymund |title='Overzealous' clean-up of Brickfields scaring away customers, say shopkeepers |url=https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/%E2%80%98overzealous%E2%80%99-clean-brickfields-scaring-away-customers-say-shopkeepers |publisher=The Edge Markets |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=29 September 2015}}
• Bukit Bintang: Jalan Alor and Changkat Bukit Bintang{{cite web |url=https://asiancorrespondent.com/2015/07/kuala-lumpur-prostitution-malaysia/#QOB3p530ZA1f6QKW.97 |title=Why Kuala Lumpur could be on its way to becoming the sex capital of Asia |last=Hunter |first=Murray |date=28 July 2015 |website=Asian Correspondent |access-date=28 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201013426/https://asiancorrespondent.com/2015/07/kuala-lumpur-prostitution-malaysia/|archive-date=1 February 2019}}{{Cite web|last=ozasiatraveller|title=Jalan Alor and Changkat Bukit Bintang {{!}} Ozasiatraveller Blog|url=https://www.ozasiatraveller.com/en/ozasiatraveller-blog/jalan-alor-and-changkat-bukit-bintang|access-date=2021-09-10|website=OzAsiaTraveller|language=en-gb}}
• Chow Kit{{Cite news |year=2006 |url=http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2006/7/9/nation/14761340&sec=nation |title=Uncertain future for Chow Kit children |work=thestaronline.com |access-date=21 July 2006 |archive-date=17 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217094823/http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=%2F2006%2F7%2F9%2Fnation%2F14761340&sec=nation |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Sanjugtha |first1=V |title=Rejuvenating Chow Kit |url=http://www.focusmalaysia.my/Assets/rejuvenating-chow-kit |website=Focus Malaysia |access-date=31 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422121504/https://focusmalaysia.my/Assets/rejuvenating-chow-kit|archive-date=22 April 2019}}
• Jalan Petaling{{cite web |last1=Bedford |first1=Sam |title=A Traveller's Guide to Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown |url=https://theculturetrip.com/asia/malaysia/articles/a-travellers-guide-to-kuala-lumpurs-chinatown/ |website=Culture Trip |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=20 March 2018}}
• Lorong Haji Taib
• Johor Bahru
• Johor Bahru City Square{{Cite web |title=新山咖啡店变'小芽笼' 狮城阿叔越堤寻欢 |url=https://www.zaobao.com.sg/znews/singapore/story20170716-779502}}
• Wong Ah Fook Street{{Cite web |title=7 Areas In JB That Locals Advise Tourists To Stay Alert In While Travelling |date=31 May 2022 |url=https://thesmartlocal.com/read/unsafe-areas-jb/}}
• Jalan Meldrum
• Kotaraya{{Cite web |title=Beautiful Decay in Johor's Back Alleys |date=14 November 2014 |url=https://urbansketchers.org/2014/11/14/beautiful-decay-in-johors-back-alleys/}}
• Taman Sentosa

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

{{See also|Prostitution in South Korea}}

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• Daegu
• Jagalmadang{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/features/newsid_1764000/1764674.stm |title=Daegu – Fast fashion |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 July 2006 |date=10 April 2002}}
• Paju
• Yong Ju Gol{{Cite news |work=The Korea Times |title=Business booms for illegal brothels on South Korea border |author=Lee Tae-hoon |date=20 February 2012 |url=http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/womens-rights/wr-asia-pacific/south-korea/2071-business-booms-for-illegal-brothels-on-south-korea-border.html |access-date=22 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616025853/http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/womens-rights/wr-asia-pacific/south-korea/2071-business-booms-for-illegal-brothels-on-south-korea-border.html |archive-date=16 June 2013}}
• Seoul
• Cheonho{{cite web |last1=Da-sol |first1=Kim |title=Korea's infamous red-light zone to fade into history |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170315000948 |website=www.koreaherald.com |access-date=31 January 2019 |language=en |date=15 March 2017}}
• Cheongnyangni 588 (demolished 2017)
• Hooker Hill, Itaewon{{cite web |last1=Purcell |first1=Conor |title=Sex Life Active, Sex Trade Thriving in Korea |url=http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=260 |website=theseoultimes.com |publisher=The Seoul Times |access-date=31 January 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Purcell |first1=Conor |title=3: The Nightlife – Seoul Man: 12 Months in Korea |url=https://www.bootsnall.com/articles/3-the-nightlife-seoul-man-12-months-in-korea.html |website=www.bootsnall.com |publisher=BootsnAll Travel Articles |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=2009}}
• Mia-ri{{cite web |year=2006 |url=http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1087 |title=3,000 Sex Workers Protest Threat to Livelihood |website=The Seoul Times |access-date=21 July 2006}}{{cite web |title=Seoul Prostitutes Say No to Foreigners |url=http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=120 |website=theseoultimes.com |publisher=The Seoul Times |access-date=16 February 2020}}
• Yeongdeungpo{{cite web |title=Exposing the Music of Seoul's Red Light District |url=https://medium.com/@popeyevisuals/exposing-the-music-of-seouls-red-light-district-d2868ddb876d |website=Medium |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=1 March 2019 |archive-date=16 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216123139/https://medium.com/@popeyevisuals/exposing-the-music-of-seouls-red-light-district-d2868ddb876d |url-status=dead }}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Pakistan}}

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• Hyderabad
• Bazaar-i-Husn{{cite web |last1=Khan |first1=Mohammad Hussain |title=IN HYDERABAD, HUSN HAS LEFT THE BAZAR |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1330104 |website=DAWN.COM |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=30 April 2017}}
• Serey Ghat{{Cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.youandaids.org/Features/PakistanAugust2004.asp |title=Sex Workers Come Together to Fight HIV/AIDS |publisher=You and AIDS (UN) |access-date=21 July 2006|archive-date=14 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314013120/http://www.youandaids.org/Features/PakistanAugust2004.asp}}
• Karachi
• Napier Road
• Lahore
• Heera Mandi{{Cite web |year=2001 |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010317/windows/above.htm |title=World's changing morals |website=The Tribune |access-date=21 July 2006}}
• Multan
• Bazaar-i-Husn
• Peshawar
• Thatti Bazaar{{cite web |title=From Heera Mandi to Bazaar-i-Husn, Pakistan's red-light districts teeter on the cusp of extinction |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1330571 |website=www.dawn.com |access-date=16 December 2018 |date=4 March 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Shah |first1=Sadia Qasim |title=UNDER THE COVERS IN PESHAWAR |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1330105 |website=DAWN.COM |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en |date=30 April 2017}}

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Prostitution is illegal, but widespread and generally tolerated.{{cite web |url=http://www.chanrobles.com/republicactno9208.html |title=Republic Act No. 9208 – An Act To Institute Policies To Eliminate Trafficking In Persons Especially Women And Children, Establishing The Necessary Institutional Mechanisms For The Protection And Support Of Trafficked Persons, Providing Penalties For Its Violations, And For Other |publisher=Chanrobles.com |access-date=7 September 2015}}

{{See also|Prostitution in Philippines}}

• Angeles City
• Fields Avenue{{Cite web |url=http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/nov/07/yehey/prov/20051107pro1.html |title=EVAT hits sin city, freelance sex appears to be on the rise |access-date=21 July 2007 |date=4 November 2003 |website=The Manila Times |publisher=The Manila Times Publishing Corp. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124083102/http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/nov/07/yehey/prov/20051107pro1.html |archive-date=24 November 2005}}
• Manila
• EDSA Entertainment Complex, Pasay{{cite web |last1=Coorlim |first1=Leif |title=Undercover journalists trawl Manila's seedy red light district |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/06/world/asia/freedom-fighters-undercover/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=31 January 2019 |date=16 May 2013}}
• Ermita
• Malate{{cite web |title=Starter Guide To Manila Red Light District |url=https://afarangabroad.com/manila-red-light-district/ |website=A Farang Abroad |access-date=31 January 2019}}
• Padre Burgos Street, Makati
• Poblacion, Makati{{cite web |last1=Mabanta |first1=Chiqui |last2=Econar |first2=Fruhlein |title=Poblacion Reinvention |work=GRID Magazine |url=https://www.gridmagazine.ph/story/poblacion-reinvention |access-date=15 February 2023 |date=December 2015}}
• Olongapo City
• Subic Bay{{cite web |last1=Marquardt |first1=Alexander |last2=Waterfield |first2=Alex |title=Alleged Underage Prostitution in Philippines; Americans Targeted |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/americans-targeted-allegedly-running-underage-prostitution-philippines/story?id=18582802 |website=ABC News |access-date=31 January 2019 |language=en |date=25 February 2013}}{{cite web |last1=Fineman |first1=Mark |title=Takes Up Plight of Infected Bar Girls Who Cater to U.S. Forces : Philippine Mayor in Front Lines of AIDS War |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-09-mn-745-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=9 March 1988}}

Prostitution itself is not illegal; however, public solicitation, living on the earnings of prostitution, and maintaining a brothel are illegal.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119056.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226175148/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119056.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2009 |title=2008 Human Rights Report: Singapore |author= |date=25 February 2009 |publisher=U.S. Department of State |access-date=2 July 2015 |quote=Prostitution itself is not illegal}}

{{See also|Prostitution in Singapore}}

• Geylang{{cite news |year=2019 |url=http://www.qaptainqwerty.com/2019/06/30/prostitution-wave-hit-squeaky-clean-singapore-since-recovered/ |title=Prostitution wave hits 'squeaky clean' Singapore |agency=Reuters |access-date=3 July 2019}}
• Orchard Towers{{Cite news |last1=Milne |first1=Rosie |title=Sex in Singapore: expats who spend their evenings seeking sleaze |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/life/sex-in-singapore-the-expats-who-spend-their-evenings-seeking-sle/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/life/sex-in-singapore-the-expats-who-spend-their-evenings-seeking-sle/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |journal=The Telegraph |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=6 May 2016}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=Orchard Towers Singapore Guide |url=https://www.think.cz/singapore/1248-orchard-towers-singapore-guide |website=www.think.cz |access-date=16 February 2020 |language=en-gb}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://redbrickdaily.com/legal-prostitution-coming-back-to-taipei/ |title=Legal Prostitution Coming Back To Taipei? |date=15 August 2017 |website=Red Brick Daily |access-date=25 November 2017 }}

{{see also|Prostitution in Taiwan}}

• Taipei
• Snake Alley (defunct){{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/world/taiwan-s-snake-alley-superstition-sin-taiwan-s-snake-alley-superstition-sin.html |title=In Taiwan's Snake Alley, Superstition and Sin | author = Nicholas D. Kristof and |work=The New York Times |date=8 February 1987 |access-date=24 October 2018 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Snake Alley, Taipei: Then and Now |url=https://www.4corners7seas.com/snake-alley-taipei/ |website=4corners7seas |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=26 February 2021}}

Image:Soi Cowboy (15351434931).jpg, 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}}

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• Bangkok
• Patpong{{Cite web |year=2001 |url=http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2001/0913/fe20-1.html |title=Red lights flicker and dim |website=Shanghai Star |access-date=21 July 2006|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050409/http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2001/0913/fe20-1.html}}
• Soi Pratuchai{{cite web |last1=Miksche |first1=Mike |title=Exploring Soi Twilight, Bangkok's gay red-light district (Part 1) |url=https://www.dailyxtra.com/exploring-soi-twilight-bangkoks-gay-red-light-district-part-1-72700 |website=Xtra |access-date=11 January 2019 |date=21 December 2016}}
• The western Sukhumvit Road area (notably including Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy; formerly included the now-defunct Clinton Plaza){{Cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.thailand.com/travel/nightlife/nightlife_bangkok_clintonplaza.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010701141008/http://www.thailand.com/travel/nightlife/nightlife_bangkok_clintonplaza.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 July 2001 |title=Clinton Entertainment Plaza |publisher=Thailand.com |access-date=21 July 2006}}{{Cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.thaiwebsites.com/sukhumvit.asp |title=Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok |publisher=ThaiWebsites.com |access-date=21 July 2006}}{{cite web |title=Center Bangkok · Red Light Districts Bangkok |url=https://www.centerbangkok.com/red-light-districts-bangkok/ |website=Center Bangkok |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=10 January 2019}}
• Washington Square (demolished 2013){{cite news |title=Bygone era of bars gone by |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/383728/bygone-era-of-bars-gone-by |newspaper=Bangkok Post |access-date=20 April 2020 |date=4 May 2018}}
• Phuket
• Soi Bang-La – Patong Beach{{Cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.frommers.com/destinations/phuket/3011010030.html |title=Phuket Nightlife |publisher=Frommer's |access-date=21 July 2006}}{{cite web |title=Patong Beach Nightlife – Patong Entertainment by Type |url=http://www.phuket.com/nightlife/patong-hotspots.htm |website=phuket.com |access-date=16 February 2020}}
• Pattaya{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/16/world/0916-PATTAYA.html?ref=multimedia |title=Thailand's Sin City Reaches for Respectability |work=The New York Times |access-date=3 October 2010 |date=16 September 2010}}
• Beach Road{{cite web |last1=Judd |first1=Adam |title=Pattaya police arrest over 60 suspected prostitutes on Beach Road, shocked to find them |url=https://thepattayanews.com/2018/07/13/pattaya-police-arrest-over-60-suspected-prostitutes-on-beach-road-shocked-to-find-them/ |website=The Pattaya News |access-date=15 September 2019 |date=13 July 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Hulme |first1=Kyle |title=A Guide to Pattaya's Red Light District |url=https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/articles/a-guide-to-pattayas-red-light-district/ |website=Culture Trip |access-date=16 February 2020 |date=21 November 2017}}
• Boyztown{{Cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/roving-candid-camera-snaps-thailands-sin-city-20090618-clbg.html |title=Roving candid camera snaps Thailand's Sin City |work=The Age |access-date=27 November 2010 |location=Melbourne |first=Stephen |last=Hutcheon |date=28 May 2008|archive-date=13 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413010006/http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/roving-candid-camera-snaps-thailands-sin-city-20090618-clbg.html}}
• Soi 6{{cite web |last1=Jolley |first1=Annelise |title=Trick of the Light |url=https://hiddencompass.net/story/trick-of-the-light/ |website=Hidden Compass |access-date=12 December 2024}}
• Sunee Plaza{{cite news |url=http://www.pattayamail.com/784/news.shtml#hd9 |title=Police raid Soi Sunee Plaza again |author=Boonlua Chatree |date=8–14 August 2008 |newspaper=Pattaya Mail |volume=XVI |issue=32 |access-date=21 December 2015}}
• Walking Street{{Cite web |year=2010 |url=http://www.frommers.com/destinations/pattaya/2996010030.html |title=Nightlife in Pattaya at Frommer's |publisher=Frommer's |access-date=3 October 2010}}

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Prostitution is legal and regulated.

{{See also|Prostitution in Turkey}}

• Ankara
• Bentderesi{{cite web |last1=Güsten |first1=Susanne |title=Turkey Cracks Down on Legal Brothels |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/world/middleeast/24iht-m24-turkey-brothel.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=30 March 2020 |date=23 January 2013}}
• Istanbul
• Giraffe Lane, Beyoğlu

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

{{See also|Prostitution in Austria}}

• Linz
• Bäckermühlweg
• Vienna
• Gürtel{{Cite web |url=http://www.cityscouter.com/travelguides/vienna/Vienna-Districts.html |title=Vienna Districts |access-date=19 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320143617/http://www.cityscouter.com/travelguides/vienna/Vienna-Districts.html|archive-date=20 March 2019}}
• Stuwerviertel{{cite web |title=Red Light Districts – Osterreich |url=http://wp12483772.server-he.de/oesterreich.html |website=RLD Europa |access-date=6 December 2017}}

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Prostitution is legal, though brothels are not.{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100550.htm |title=Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Belgium |publisher=State.gov |date=11 March 2008 |access-date=7 September 2015}} Enforcement of the law can be lax.

{{See also|Prostitution in Belgium}}

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• Antwerp
• Schipperskwartier{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/passports-and-panic-buttons-in-the-brothel-of-the-future-417159.html |title=Passports and panic buttons in the brothel of the future |location=London |work=The Independent |first=Stephen |last=Castle |date=23 September 2006}} including Villa Tinto
• Brussels
• Alhambra Quarter{{cite web |url=http://www.cym18.com/ |title=Red Light Districts – Belgium |website=RLD-Europa |access-date=29 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215181755/http://www.cym18.com/|archive-date=15 February 2018}}
• Avenue Louise{{cite web |url=http://www.redlightdistricts.net/red-light-districts-in-belgium/ |title=Red light districts in Belgium |date=31 August 2017 |website=Red Light Districts |access-date=29 October 2017 |archive-date=8 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408065018/http://www.redlightdistricts.net/red-light-districts-in-belgium/}}
• Place Fontainas{{cite web |last1=Helm |first1=Sarah |title=Gays under pressure in Belgium's moral backlash Anger over child |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/gays-under-pressure-in-belgiums-moral-backlash-anger-over-child-murders-switches-to-belgiums-gays-1354281.html |website=The Independent |access-date=1 February 2019 |language=en |date=26 November 1996}}
• Rue d'Aerschot and surrounds{{Cite web |url=http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/demand_for_victims.pdf |title=The Demand for Victims of Sex Trafficking |date=June 2005 |author=Donna M. Hughes |publisher=University of Rhode Island |access-date=4 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513102638/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/demand_for_victims.pdf |archive-date=13 May 2008 }}
• Charleroi
• "Charleroi Triangle" (closed 2011){{cite web |url=https://www.entre2wallonie.com/historique |title=Prostitution à Charleroi |website=Entre 2 Wallonie |access-date=31 October 2017 |language=fr}}
• Area around ministère des Finances
• Faubourg de Bruxelles and the N5, Gosselies
• Deinze
• Kortrijksesteenweg (N43).
• Ghent
• Schepenenvijverstraat/Pieter Vanderdoncktdoorgang (including Glazen Straatje){{cite web |url=http://www.amsterdam-red-light-district-maps.com/Ghent.html |title=Ghent Red Light District / Quartier Rouge Gand / Rosse Buurt Gent |website=Amsterdam Red Light District Maps, Photos, Hotels, Videos |access-date=29 October 2017 }}
• Belgradostraat
• Liège
• Rue du Champion/Rue de l'Agneau (windows closed in 2009, street prostitution still occurs){{cite web |url=http://www.sudinfo.be/1243063/article/2015-03-19/prostitution-a-liege-elles-tapinent-pour-payer-leur-loyer |title=Prostitution à Liège: elles tapinent pour payer leur loyer |date=19 March 2015 |website=Sud Info |access-date=29 October 2017 |language=fr}}{{cite journal |last1=Adriaenssens |first1=Stef |last2=Hendrickx |first2=Jef |last3=Machiels |first3=Thomas |last4=Heylen |first4=Wim |title=A direct measure of output in prostitution in Belgium |url=https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/336924/ |access-date=17 February 2020 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.4868.6807 |date=October 2015}}
• Ostend
• hazegras
• Seraing
• Rue Marnix
• A purpose built "Eros Centre" is planned{{cite web |url=https://www.qu4tre.be/infos/seraing-prostitution/1491446 |title=Seraing prostitution |date=18 March 2011 |website=Qu4tre Liège Média |access-date=29 October 2017 }} than abandoned{{cite web | url=https://www.seraing.be/le-projet-de-leros-center-est-abandonne/ | title=Le projet de l'Eros Center est abandonné – Ville de Seraing | date=11 January 2019 }}
• Sint-Truiden
• Luikersteenweg (know locally as "Chaussée d'Amour")

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Prostitution is illegal.

{{See also|Prostitution in Croatia}}

• Zagreb
• Tkalčićeva Street (defunct since World War II){{cite web |title=Prostitution in Croatia: Weird Facts Revealed |url=http://www.croatia-times.com/the-zagreb-times/prostitution-croatia-weird-facts-revealed/ |website=Croatia Times |access-date=17 February 2018 |date=5 June 2014|archive-date=9 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180609182726/http://www.croatia-times.com/the-zagreb-times/prostitution-croatia-weird-facts-revealed/}}{{cite web |title=Zagreb Red Light District |url=https://citypal.me/local-tips/zagreb/zagreb-red-light-district/ |website=CityPal |access-date=17 February 2020}}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in the Czech Republic}}

• Prague
• Perlovka{{cite web |title=Prague Red Light (Perlovka), Czech Republic |url=http://travel.smart-guide.net/prague-red-light-perlovka-czech-republic |website=Smart Travel Guide |access-date=6 December 2017|archive-date=10 February 2019|url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210013059/http://travel.smart-guide.net/prague-red-light-perlovka-czech-republic}}

Ostrava

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Denmark}}

• Copenhagen
• Halmtorvet{{cite web |last1=Sheikh |first1=Jacob |last2=Davidsen-Nielsen |first2=Hans |title=Eks-luder om Istedgade: Det er mere råt, end da jeg trak for heroin |url=https://politiken.dk/kultur/art5592010/Eks-luder-om-Istedgade-Det-er-mere-r%C3%A5t-end-da-jeg-trak-for-heroin |website=Politiken |access-date=1 February 2019 |language=da-DK |date=15 May 2012}}{{cite web |title=Danish 'sex ambulance' for Copenhagen red light district (VIDEO) {{!}} Malay Mail |url=https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2017/05/18/danish-sex-ambulance-for-copenhagen-red-light-district-video/1379251 |website=www.malaymail.com |access-date=17 February 2020 |language=en |date=18 May 2017}}
• Istedgade{{cite web |title=The spin on sex work |url=http://murmur.dk/the-spin-on-sex-work/ |publisher=Murmur |access-date=17 February 2020 |date=10 May 2016 |archive-date=17 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217214349/http://murmur.dk/the-spin-on-sex-work/ |url-status=dead }}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Finland}}

• Helsinki
• Aleksis Kiven katu and Vaasankatu{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/8920118/Helsinki-Finland-a-cultural-guide.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/8920118/Helsinki-Finland-a-cultural-guide.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Helsinki, Finland: a cultural guide |website=telegraph.co.uk |access-date=22 December 2017 |date=28 November 2011 |last1=Miller |first1=Norman}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.is.fi/matkat/art-2000000453668.html|title=Brittilehti: "Vältä näitä Helsingin katuja"|website=is.fi |access-date=17 July 2021 |date=17 July 2021 |last1= |first1=}}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in France}}

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• Angers
• Place Pierre Semard{{cite web |title=Red Light Districts – France |url=http://wp12483772.server-he.de/france.html |website=RLD-Europa |access-date=5 December 2017}}
• Avignon
• Bourg Neuf{{cite book |last1=Schaus |first1=Margaret |title=Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006): An Encyclopedia |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781351681582 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hx8uDwAAQBAJ&q=%22avignon%22+red+light+district&pg=PT2110 |language=en}}
• Béziers
• Avenue President Wilson
• Bordeaux
• Quartier de la Gare Saint Jean
• Quartier Saint-Rémi
• Les Quinconces
• Caen
• Saint Saveur (defunct)
• Presqu'île de Caen
• Cannes
• La croisette
• Le Havre
• rue LeSueur/rue Haudry/rue Laperouse (defunct)
• Lille
• Quartier Peuple Belge (defunct)
• La Madeleine (defunct)
• Limoges
• Champ de Juillet (defunct)
• Lyon
• Gare de Perrache
• River "quais"
• Mantes-la-Jolie
• Quartier du Val Fourré
• Marseille
• La Canebière
• Montpellier
• Boulevard de Strasbourg
• Nancy
• Rue de la Source
• Nantes
• Rue Paul Bellamy
• Quai de la Fosse
• Rue de Strasbourg
• Rue de Talensac
• Nice
• Promenade des Anglais
• Rue de France
• Paris
• Beaubourg (17c now defunct), including:{{cite web |last1=De Baudouin |first1=Pierre |title=Quelle histoire se cache derrière le nom de votre rue ? |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/paris-ile-de-france/carte-quelle-histoire-se-cache-derriere-nom-votre-rue-1138461.html |website=France 3 Paris Île-de-France |access-date=10 February 2019 |language=fr |date=29 December 2017}}{{cite book |last1=Lazare |first1=Félix |title=Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments; [suivi d'un] supplément |date=1844 |publisher=F. Lazare |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireadm00lazagoog/page/n522 534] |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireadm00lazagoog |quote=Pélican. |language=fr}}{{cite book |last1=Robb |first1=Graham |title=Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris |date=2010 |publisher=Picador |isbn=9780330452441 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wv-_X2X4zKcC&q=rue+Tire-Vit%2C&pg=PA390 |page=390 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Thirteen interesting facts about Paris as picked out by Michael Schuermann, author Paris Movie Walks |url=https://travel.prwave.ro/thirteen-interesting-facts-about-paris-as-picked-out-by-michael-schuermann-author-paris-movie-walks/ |website=Travel Moments in Time |access-date=17 February 2020 |date=2 August 2010}}
• Rue Gratte-Cul, now Rue Dussoubs
• Rue Maubuée, now Rue de Venise
• Rue du Poil-au-Con, now Rue du Pélican
• Rue Pute-y-Musse, now Rue du Petit-Musc
• Rue Tire-Vit, now Rue Marie-Stuart
• Rue Trousse-Nonnain, now Rue Beaubourg
• Rue Troussevache, now rue de La Reynie
• 1st arrondissement
• Rue Saint-Denis{{cite web |last1=Sormonta |first1=Massimo |title=The Come and the Go of Sex-Workers and passers-by in Rue Saint Denis, Paris |url=https://medium.com/vantage/the-pied-piper-of-rue-saint-denis-92b6e0bd7e36 |website=Vantage |access-date=5 December 2017 |date=13 January 2017}}{{cite web |title=The Women of Rue St. Denis [Paris] |url=https://wordswithsteph.com/2015/08/11/the-women-of-rue-st-denis-paris/ |website=The Phillage Girl |access-date=17 February 2020 |language=en |date=11 August 2015}}
• 3rd arrondissement
• Rue Trace-Putain (defunct) later rue Tasse-Nonnain, now part of Rue Beaubourg{{cite book |last1=Géraud |first1=Hercule |title=Paris sous Philippe – le – Bel: d'après des documents originaux et notamment d'après un manuscript contenant Le Rôle de la taille imposée sur les habitants de Paris en 1292 |date=1837 |publisher=Crapelet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHwfAQAAMAAJ&q=rue+trace+putain&pg=PA235 |language=fr |page=235}}
• 4th arrondissement
• Rue Brisemiche (Defunct) later rue Baillehoë and now part of Rue Brisemiche{{cite book |last1=Lemonier |first1=Marc |title=Guide historique du Paris libertin |date=2015 |publisher=Groupe CB |isbn=9782842716707 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmS2CgAAQBAJ&q=Marc+Lemonier%2C+Guide+historique+du+Paris+libertin%2C |page=118 |language=fr}}
• 9th arrondissement
• Barbès-Rochechouart{{cite web |last1=Marx |first1=Daria |title=Cartographie de la Prostitution Parisienne |url=https://www.brain-magazine.fr/article/reportages/3315-Cartographie-de-la-Prostitution-Parisienne |website=www.brain-magazine.fr |access-date=10 February 2019 |language=fr |date=25 February 2010 |archive-date=26 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126140838/https://www.brain-magazine.fr/article/reportages/3315-Cartographie-de-la-Prostitution-Parisienne |url-status=dead }}
• Rue de Budapest (defunct)
• Quartier Pigalle (defunct){{cite web |last1=Carr |first1=Kelby |title=Pigalle Place is the Former Red Light District of Paris |url=https://www.tripsavvy.com/sex-at-pigalle-place-1516903 |website=Trip Savvy |access-date=5 December 2017 |date=19 June 2017}}
• 10th arrondissement
• Porte Saint-Martin
• Bois de Boulogne{{cite web |last1=Lovett |first1=Patrick |last2=Davis |first2=Christopher |trans-title=France: at the Bois de Boulogne, with transgender prostitutes |title=France : au bois de Boulogne, auprès des prostituées transgenres |url=http://www.france24.com/fr/20170908-focus-france-prostitution-agression-bois-boulogne-transgenres-transexuelles-police |website=France 24 |access-date=5 December 2017 |date=8 September 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Holmes |first1=Natasha |title=Bois de Boulogne: Ladies of the Day! |url=https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/globetrotters/bois-de-boulogne-ladies-of-the-day/ |website=Cardiff University |access-date=18 February 2020 |date=13 October 2017}}
• Bois de Vincennes{{cite web |last1=Andrews |first1=Frank |title=The Paris park where Nigerian women are forced into prostitution |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/04/africa/paris-nigerian-women-trafficking/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=1 February 2019 |date=5 October 2018}}
• Rouen
• Boulevard des Belges{{cite web |last1=Blachere |first1=Thomas |title=Rouen : le nouveau visage de la prostitution |url=https://www.tendanceouest.com/actualite-38909-rouen-le-nouveau-visage-de-la-prostitution.html |website=tendanceouest.com |publisher=Tendance Ouest |access-date=12 February 2019 |language=fr |date=2 February 2012}}
• Rue St Jacques
• Strasbourg
• Avenue de la Forêt-Noire
• Route du Rhin
• Quai des Alpes
• Quai Louis-Pasteur
• Boulevard de Lyon Quartier de la Gare
• Toulouse
• Rue Bayard
• Quartier du Canal
• Boulevard de Strasbourg
• Troyes

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Prostitution is legal and regulated.

{{See also|Prostitution in Germany}}

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• Aachen
• Antoniusstraße{{Cite web |title=Red Light Districts of Deutschland |url=http://cym18.tripod.com/deutschland.html |access-date=21 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113183530/http://www.cym18.com/|archive-date=13 January 2018}}
• Augsburg
• Hasengasse
• Berlin
• Bülowstraße
• Kurfüstendamm (defunct)
• Kurfürstenstraße{{cite web |title=Red Light Districts – Deutschland |url=http://wp12483772.server-he.de/deutschland.html |website=RLD Europa |access-date=6 December 2017}}
• Oranienburger Straße{{cite web |last=Butler |first=Season |url=http://www.somethinkblue.com/article_detail.php?article_id=275 |title=Berlin Vice: Who's Really Winning? – from The Philos Aphilos Issue | somethinkblue Magazine |publisher=Somethinkblue.com |access-date=7 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116210634/http://www.somethinkblue.com/article_detail.php?article_id=275 |archive-date=16 January 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Robert |title=Peppr is the Tinder of the sex industry |url=https://acclaimmag.com/culture/taking-tinder-next-level-app-turns-tricks/ |website=Acclaim Magazine |access-date=18 February 2020 |language=en-us |date=3 May 2014 |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218213017/https://acclaimmag.com/culture/taking-tinder-next-level-app-turns-tricks/ |url-status=dead }}
• Potsdamer Straße (defunct)
• Stuttgarter Platz (defunct){{cite web |last1=Graf |first1=Ernst |title=Stuttgarter Platz old and new |url=https://kingslandrogue.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/stuttgarter-platz-old-and-new/ |website=Serpent's Egg |access-date=18 February 2020 |language=en |date=19 July 2015}}{{cite book |last1=Hoare |first1=Keith |title=German Connection: A People Trafficker Novel |date=25 April 2016 |publisher=Ragged Cover Publishing}}
• Bielefeld
• Eckendorferstraße
• Bochum
• Im Winkel
• Bonn
• Immenburgstraße
• Braunschweig
• Bruchstraße
• Bremen
• Die Küste (defunct){{cite web |last1=Gerling |first1=Anne |title=Frauke Wilhelm erzählt Waller Geschichten |url=https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/stadtteile-bremen-west_artikel,-Frauke-Wilhelm-erzaehlt-Waller-Geschichten-_arid,173601.html |website=WESER-KURIER |trans-title=Frauke Wilhelm tells Waller stories |access-date=4 May 2020 |language=de |date=24 October 2011}}
• Helenenstraße
• Punkendeich (defunct){{cite book |last1=Schwarzwälder |first1=Herbert |title=Das grosse Bremen-Lexikon |trans-title=The Great Bremen Lexicon |date=2002 |publisher=Edition Temmen |isbn=978-3-86108-986-5 |language=de}}
• Bremerhaven
• Lessingstraße
• Cologne
• Hornstraße
• Darmstadt
• Bismarckstraße
• Dortmund
• Linienstraße
• Ravensberger Straße (defunct)
• Duisburg
• Vulkanstraße
• Düsseldorf
• Hinter dem Bahndamm
• Essen
• Stahlstraße
• Flensburg
• Oluf-Samsons-Gang
• Frankfurt
• Bahnhofsviertel{{cite web |title=Event Bahnhofsviertel FfM – Rotlicht, Lifestyle & Orient |url=http://www.frankfurter-stadtevents.de/themen/1190/20010001/ |website=Frankfurter Stadtevents |access-date=19 January 2019 |language=de}}
• Breite Gasse
• Hagen
• Düppenbeckerstraße
• Hamburg
• St. Georg
• St. Pauli: area around Reeperbahn{{Cite web |title=Reeperbahn in St. Pauli, Hamburg |url=http://en.reeperbahn.se/ |access-date=25 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408044027/http://en.reeperbahn.se/ |archive-date=8 April 2009 }}
• Hanover
• Am Steintor
• Ludwigstraße
• Reitwallstraße{{cite news |last1=Eppelsheim |first1=Philip |title=Netzwerke in Hannover: Ein Nachmittag im Steintorviertel |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/netzwerke-in-hannover-ein-nachmittag-im-steintorviertel-1576317.html |newspaper=FAZ.NET |trans-title=An afternoon in the Steintorviertel |access-date=26 April 2020 |language=de |date=30 November 2010}}
• Karlsruhe
• Brunnenstraße
• Kiel
• Wall am Hafen{{cite news |title=Giving the customer what he wants |url=http://www.economist.com/node/113208 |newspaper=The Economist |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=12 February 1998}}
• Lübeck
• Clemensstraße (defunct)
• Mannheim
• Lupinenstraße
• Minden
• Rampenloch (defunct, last 2 brothels closed in 2018){{cite web |last1=Lewerenz |first1=Susann |title=Interessenbekundungsverfahren für das Rampenloch startet am 6. Januar |url=https://www.minden.de/stadt_minden/de/Aktuelles/Pressemitteilungen/2019/Dezember/Interessenbekundungsverfahren%20f%C3%BCr%20das%20Rampenloch%20startet%20am%206.%20Januar/ |website=City of Minden |trans-title=Expression of interest for the ramp hole starts on 6 January |access-date=1 May 2020 |language=de |date=18 December 2019}}
• Munich
• Landsberger Straße
• Schillerstraße{{cite web |title=Münchens sündigste Straße |url=https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.ludwigsvorstadt-muenchens-suendigste-strasse.53bd6f15-8ff7-4b93-b2c6-a9972f657f9e.html |publisher=Abendzeitung |access-date=24 November 2018 |date=5 March 2013}}
• Stahlgruberring
• Nuremberg
• Frauentormauer
• Oberhausen
• Flaßhofstraße{{Cite web |title=Wie Prostituierte an der Flaßhofstraße in Oberhausen mit Sex Geld verdienen-WAZ.de |url=https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/oberhausen/wie-prostituierte-an-der-flasshofstrasse-in-oberhausen-mit-sex-geld-verdienen-id4433769.html |access-date=21 October 2012 |date=18 March 2011 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116154537/https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/oberhausen/wie-prostituierte-an-der-flasshofstrasse-in-oberhausen-mit-sex-geld-verdienen-id4433769.html |url-status=dead }}
• Stuttgart
• Leonhardsviertel{{cite news |year=2014 |title=Stadt nimmt im Rotlichtviertel neuen Anlauf |url=http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.leonhardsviertel-in-stuttgart-stadt-nimmt-im-rotlichtviertel-neuen-anlauf.72a9400b-cb15-4570-88a2-6ffb9db95c9e.html |newspaper=Stuttgarter Zeitung |access-date=4 December 2016}}
• Ulm
• Blaubeurer Straße{{cite news |year=2018 |title= Aussteigerin berichtet über Zwangsprostitution |url= https://www.swp.de/suedwesten/staedte/ulm/rotlicht-entlang-der-blauen-donau-27131766.html |newspaper=Südwest Presse |access-date=2 June 2020}}

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Prostitution illegal.

{{see also|Prostitution in the British Overseas Territories#Gibraltar}}

• Seruya's Ramp, (Calle Peligro) (defunct){{cite web |last1=Chipulina |first1=Neville |title=The People of Gibraltar – 1885 – James Joyce – Molly Bloom's Gibraltar – Part 3 |url=http://gibraltar-intro.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/1885-james-joyce-molly-blooms-gibraltar_83.html |website=Gibraltar Intro |access-date=25 February 2018}}

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

{{See also|Prostitution in Greece}}

• Athens
• Fylis Street{{cite web |last1=Σκριβάνος |first1=Τάκης |title=Αμαρτίες στην οδό Φυλής |url=http://www.athensvoice.gr/life/urban-culture/athens/411776_amarties-stin-odo-fylis |website=Athens Voice |access-date=11 June 2018 |date=10 January 2018}}{{cite web |title=Prostitution and Sex Tourism in Athens |url=http://www.greeceathensaegeaninfo.com/h-athens/cultural/prostitution-sex-tourism.htm |website=www.greeceathensaegeaninfo.com |access-date=18 February 2020}}
• Metaxourgeio Area
• Piraeus
• Troumpa (defunct)

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}}

• Dublin
• Monto (defunct){{cite news |url=http://www.independent.ie/style/sex-relationships/redlight-alert-26722484.html |title=Red-light alert |date=10 April 2011 |newspaper=Independent}}
• Grafton Street (defunct){{cite web |last1=Fallon |first1=Donal |title=Grafton Street 1870: 'The street literally swarmed with women of loose character' |url=http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/grafton-street-1870-the-street-literally-swarmed-with-women-of-loose-character-3645126-Oct2017/ |website=Journal IE |access-date=6 December 2017 |date=15 October 2017}}{{cite book |last1=O'Brien |first1=Joseph V. |title=Dear, Dirty Dublin: A City in Distress, 1899–1916 |date=1982 |publisher=Joseph Valentine O'Brien |isbn=978-0-520-03965-0 |page=190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5DYJEavqNAC&q=grafton+street+dublin+red+light+district&pg=PA190 |language=en}}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Italy}}

• Catania, Sicily
• San Berillo{{cite web |last1=Zaromskyte |first1=Akville |translator-last=Hole |translator-first=Sally Jane |title=Italian Redlight District: grilled windows, silicon breasts and a party – Media 4 change |url=http://www.media4change.co/publications/italian-redlight-district-grilled-windows-silicon-breasts-party/ |website=www.media4change.co |access-date=18 February 2020 |date=28 April 2015}}
• Venice
• Carampane di Rialto, including Ponte delle Tette (defunct){{cite web |last1=Valhouli |first1=Christina |title=Courtesan power |url=http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/11/15/courtesan_1/index2.html |website=Salon.com |access-date=1 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405203648/http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/11/15/courtesan_1/index2.html |archive-date=5 April 2010 |date=15 November 2000}}{{cite web |title=San Polo and Old Red Light District Walking Tour (Self Guided), Venice, Italy |url=https://www.gpsmycity.com/discovery/san-polo-and-old-red-light-district-walking-tour-36.html |website=GPSmyCity |access-date=18 February 2020 |language=en}}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Luxembourg}}

• Luxembourg railway station area{{cite web |last1=Nicholson |first1=Dr Felicity |title=Luxembourg – Health and safety |url=https://www.bradtguides.com/destinations/europe/luxembourg/health-and-safety.html |website=Bradt Travel Guides |access-date=6 December 2017}}

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Malta}}

• Gżira
• Mello Area (Triq Testaferrata){{cite web |title=Woman imprisoned for loitering at place known for prostitution in Gżira – TVM News |url=https://www.tvm.com.mt/en/news/woman-imprisoned-loitering-place-known-prostitution-gzira/ |website=TVM English |access-date=18 February 2020 |date=1 July 2017}}{{cite book |last1=Rix |first1=Juliet |title=Malta |date=2010 |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |isbn=978-1-84162-312-2 |page=164 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hj7MN2TLfdwC&q=red+light+district&pg=PA164 |language=en}}
• Marsa
• Albert Town Area
• St. Julian's
• Paceville{{cite web |last1=Drury |first1=Melanie |title=From brothel to theatre: Behind the doors at The Splendid on Strait Street |url=https://www.guidememalta.com/en/from-brothel-to-theatre-behind-the-doors-at-the-splendid-on-strait-street |website=www.guidememalta.com |access-date=18 February 2020 |language=en |date=25 July 2019}}
• Valletta
• Strait Street – known as "The Gut" by the British Navy (defunct){{cite web |title=Sex, Lies, and Cobblestones: The Debaucherous Story Behind Malta's Most Notorious Street |url=https://www.fodors.com/news/uncategorized/sex-lies-and-cobblestones-the-debaucherous-story-behind-maltas-most-notorious-street |website=Fodors Travel Guide |access-date=23 February 2018 |date=18 January 2018}}

File:Prostata Prostitute.jpg, Amsterdam's red light district, of a man negotiating with a sex worker.]]

File:Achterdam alkmaar.jpg

Prostitution and associated activities are legal and common. A total of 11 cities in the Netherlands have red light districts with window prostitution.{{cite web |title=Prostitution in the Netherlands |url=http://www.amsterdamredlightdistricttour.com/information/prostitution-in-holland/ |website=Amsterdam Red Light District Tours |access-date=28 April 2018 |date=20 June 2014}}

{{See also|Prostitution in the Netherlands}}

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• Alkmaar
• Achterdam{{cite web |url=http://www.rossebuurt-alkmaar.nl/ |title=Rossebuurt Alkmaar Kamerverhuur |trans-title=Alkmaar Red Light District – Room Rental |language=nl |author= |access-date=3 December 2017 }}
• Amsterdam
• De Wallen{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002815117_amsterdam19.html?syndication=rss |work=The Seattle times |title=Amsterdam Red Light District turns spotlight on its practice |first=Bruce |last=Mutsvairo |access-date=1 September 2007 |date=23 February 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924152138/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002815117_amsterdam19.html?syndication=rss |archive-date=24 September 2011 }}
• Singel{{cite web |title=Amsterdam Singelgebied Red Light District Map, Video, Photos, Info |url=http://www.amsterdam-red-light-district-maps.com/Singelgebied.html |website=www.amsterdam-red-light-district-maps.com |access-date=18 February 2020}}
• de Pijp{{cite web |title=Amsterdam De Pijp Red Light District Map, Video, Photos, Info |url=http://www.amsterdam-red-light-district-maps.com/Pijp.html |website=www.amsterdam-red-light-district-maps.com |access-date=18 February 2020}}
• Arnhem – closed 2006{{cite web |url=http://www.sababa.nl/en/392/ |title=Red light on Dutch sex for sale |website=Sababa |access-date=4 December 2017 }}
• Deventer
• Bokkingshang{{cite web |url=https://nltimes.nl/2017/02/09/closing-red-light-district-pushed-sex-industry-online-fmr-sex-worker |title=Closing Red Light District Pushed Sex Industry Online: Fmr. Sex Worker |last=Pieters |first=Janene |date=9 February 2017 |website=NL Times |access-date=3 December 2017 }}
• Doetinchem
• Roerstraat{{cite web |url=http://www.amsterdamredlightdistricttour.com/information/prostitution-in-holland/ |title=Prostitution in the Netherlands |date=16 August 2017 |website=Amsterdam Red Light District Tours |access-date=3 December 2017 }}
• Eindhoven
• Baekelandplein{{cite web |title=Eindhoven |url=http://hangaroundtheworld.com/en/eindhoven/ |website=Hang Around The World |access-date=18 February 2020 |date=29 July 2016}}
• Groningen
• Haarlem
• The Hague
• Geleenstraat{{cite web |url=http://www.amsterdam-red-light-district-maps.com/DenHaag.html |title=Den Haag Red Light Districts |website=Amsterdam Red Light District Maps, Photos, Hotels, Videos |access-date=3 December 2017 }}
• Hunsestraat
• Doubletstraat
• Heerenveen
• Munnikstraat
• Leeuwarden
• Nijmegen
• New Market
• Rotterdam – closed 2003{{cite web |url=https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/297956/2/sexworkantwerp.pdf |title=Global pressures, local measures: the re-regulation of sex work in the Antwerp Skipper's Quarter |last1=Loopmans |first1=Maarten |last2=van den Broeck |first2=Pieter |website=Ku Leuven |access-date=3 December 2017 }}
• Keileweg{{cite web |title=Illegal Prostitution In the Netherlands Flees To Small Cities And Towns |url=https://www.amsterdamredlightdistricttour.com/news/illegal-prostitution-in-the-netherlands-flees-to-small-cities-and-towns/ |website=Amsterdam Red Light District Tours |access-date=18 February 2020 |date=1 September 2017}}
• Utrecht – closed 2013{{cite web |url=https://www.raadvanstate.nl/pers/persberichten/tekst-persbericht.html?id=945 |title=Utrecht mocht vergunning prostitutieboten 'oude' Zandpad intrekken |trans-title=Utrecht was allowed to withdraw prostitution boats on Zandpad |date=26 April 2016 |website=Raad van State |access-date=3 December 2017 |language=nl}}
• Hardebollenstraat{{cite web |author1=Jan M |title=Utrecht Red Light District |url=http://www.netherlands-tourism.com/utrecht-red-light-district/ |website=Netherlands Tourism |access-date=18 February 2020}}
• Zandpad

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Portugal}}

• Lisbon
• Cais do Sodré (defunct){{cite web |title=The Vice Guide to Lisbon 2014 |url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/3b75v5/the-vice-guide-to-lisbon-2014-832 |website=The Vice |access-date=6 December 2017 |date=30 June 2014}}
• Rua Nova do Carvalho (defunct){{cite web |title=Nightlife in Lisbon and in Porto |url=https://www.visitportugal.com/en/content/nightlife-lisbon-and-porto |website=www.visitportugal.com |access-date=22 February 2020 |language=en}}
• Porto
• Rua Coelho Neto{{cite web |title=Finding Girls For Sex In Porto, Portugal – Guys Nightlife |url=https://guysnightlife.com/girls-sex-porto-portugal/ |website=Guys Nightlife |access-date=9 August 2018 |date=3 October 2017}}
• Rua Conde de Ferreira
• Rua Escura{{cite web |title=Why is Dark Street called that way? {{!}} Portoalities |url=https://portoalities.com/en/why-is-dark-street-called-that-way/ |website=Portoalities |access-date=9 August 2018 |date=26 November 2015}}
• Braga
• Residencial Cairense

• Belgrade
• Picin park
• Plavi most
• Novi Sad
• Kaćka petlja
• Partizanska street

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Spain}}

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• Barcelona
• Barrio Chino,{{Cite web |title=Old Barcelona |url=http://www.in-spain.info/spain-regions/catalonia-barcelona-old-barcelona.htm |website=www.in-spain.info |access-date=27 December 2015}}
• Carrer de Sant Ramon
• Carrer d'En Robador
• La Rambla{{cite web |title=Las Ramblas in Barcelona: Essential Guide & Advice |url=https://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/ramblas/barcelona-las-ramblas.html |website=www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com |access-date=22 February 2020}}{{cite web |title=What You Should Know About The Red Light District Barcelona |url=https://www.stripclubbarcelona.com/red-light-district-barcelona/ |website=www.stripclubbarcelona.com |access-date=22 February 2020}}
• Ronda de Sant Antoni{{cite web |last1=Fernández |first1=Isabel Holgado |title=Barcelona and Prostitution: Always Difficult Relations With the Neighbourhood |url=http://lameva.barcelona.cat/bcnmetropolis/arxiu/en/page45cf.html?id=23&ui=91 |website=lameva.barcelona.cat |access-date=19 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820005922/http://lameva.barcelona.cat/bcnmetropolis/arxiu/en/page45cf.html?id=23&ui=91|archive-date=20 August 2018}}
• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Calle Molino de Viento{{cite web |title=Molino de viento, la calle de la prostitución |url=https://www.cuatro.com/callejeros/Archivotemporada-08/t08xp35-gran-canaria-al-limite/Molino-viento-calle-prostitucion_2_1634880132.html |website=Cuatro |access-date=18 August 2018 |date=7 December 2013}}
• Madrid
• Centro
• Calle Atocha
• Calle Carretas{{cite news |last1=Gallo |first1=Bruno García |title=Madrid targets prostitution as number of street workers rises |url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2013/01/20/inenglish/1358688411_937431.html |newspaper=El País |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en |date=20 January 2013}}
• Calle de Barco
• Calle del Desengaño{{cite web |last1=Tremlett |first1=Giles |title=On the streets, the oldest profession prepares for the newest currency |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/01/euro.eu2 |website=The Guardian |access-date=10 April 2019 |date=1 January 2002}}
• Calle de la Ballesta{{cite web |title=Los vecinos denuncian peleas constantes entre prostitutas en Malasaña |url=https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2016/06/11/575aea3ce5fdea5f0c8b45ab.html |website=ELMUNDO |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=es |date=11 June 2016}}
• Calle Montera{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Annie |last2=Pablo |first2=Ofelia de |title='Prostitution is seen as a leisure activity here': tackling Spain's sex traffickers {{!}} Annie Kelly |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/11/prostitution-tackling-spain-sex-traffickers |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 February 2020 |date=11 May 2019}}
• Calle de Valverde{{cite book |last1=Rice |first1=Christopher |last2=Rice |first2=Melanie |title=DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Madrid: Madrid |date=2011 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited |isbn=978-1-4053-7204-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uxSANSVboWgC&q=madrid+red+light+district&pg=PT224 |language=en}}
• Plaza de la Luna
• Plaza Jacinto Benavente{{cite web |last1=Danna |first1=Daniela |title=Prostitution and Public Life in Four European Capitals |url=https://www.sexworkeurope.org/sites/default/files/resource-pdfs/prostitution_and_public_life_0.pdf |website=www.sexworkeurope.org |access-date=10 April 2019 |date=2007}}
• Puerta del Sol{{cite web |title=Spain's prostitutes fight streetwalking crackdown |url=https://www.thelocal.es/20140214/spains-prostitutes-fight-streetwalking-crackdown |website=www.thelocal.es |access-date=10 April 2019 |date=14 February 2014}}
• Casa de Campo (defunct){{cite web |last1=Corrigan |first1=Damian |title=Safety and Location of Madrid's Red Light District |url=https://www.tripsavvy.com/madrid-sex-district-location-safety-1643661 |website=TripSavvy |access-date=22 February 2020 |language=en |date=6 March 2019}}
• Colonia Marconi{{cite news |last1=Barroso |first1=F. Javier |title=Despite fines, street sex trade continues in Madrid suburb |url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/22/inenglish/1471860929_669531.html |newspaper=El País |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en |date=29 August 2016}}
• El Gato industrial area{{cite news |last1=Andreu |first1=Jerónimo |title=Destitute women wanting to "work the streets" find world of violent rivals |url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2013/01/30/inenglish/1359553604_944362.html |newspaper=El País |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en |date=30 January 2013}}
• Parque del Oeste
• Paseo de Camoens
• Vicálvaro
• Polígono de Villaverde
• Palma de Mallorca
• Carrer de la Ferreria{{cite web |last1=Petzold |first1=Ralf |title=Das Rotlicht flackert in Palma de Mallorca nur noch schwach |url=https://www.mallorcazeitung.es/lokales/2018/06/02/rotlicht-flackert-palma-de-mallorca/60168.html |website=Mallorca Zeitung |access-date=19 August 2018 |language=es |date=4 June 2018}}
• Salamanca
• Barrio Chino de Salamanca (defunct){{cite web |title=El antiguo barrio chino, la cara oscura y divertida de Salamanca |url=https://salamancartvaldia.es/not/103591/el-barrio-chino-la-cara-oscura-y-divertida-de-salamanca/ |website=Salamanca rtv al día: El periódico digital de toda Salamanca |trans-title=The old Chinatown, the dark and funny face of Salamanca |access-date=13 April 2020 |language=es |date=15 February 2019}}
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Calle Miraflores{{cite web |title=Ausweg für die Prostituierten der Calle Miraflores gesucht |url=https://www.wochenblatt.es/kanarische-inseln/teneriffa/ausweg-fuer-die-prostituierten-der-calle-miraflores-gesucht/ |website=www.wochenblatt.es |trans-title=Looking for a way out for the prostitutes of Calle Miraflores |access-date=22 February 2020 |language=de |date=12 August 2006}}
• Valencia
• Calle de Viana{{cite web |title=Compromís proposa una Mesa per la Convivència al barri de Velluters, amb veïns, comerciants, ONG, Ajuntament i prostitutes – Compromís per València |url=https://valencia.compromis.net/2012/09/18/compromis-proposa-una-mesa-per-la-convivencia-al-barri-de-velluters-amb-veins-comerciants-ong-ajuntament-i-prostitutes/ |website=Compromís per València |access-date=16 August 2018 |language=ca-ES |date=18 September 2012 |trans-title=Commitment proposes a Bureau for Coexistence in the neighborhood of Velluters, with neighbors, merchants, NGOs, city councils and prostitutes}}

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Prostitution is legal and regulated.

{{See also|Prostitution in Switzerland}}

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• Zürich
• Langstrasse{{Cite web |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index/Window_ban_for_Zurichs_prostitutes.html?cid=3307596 |title=Window ban for Zurich's prostitutes |access-date=19 December 2009 |archive-date=27 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927185416/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index/Window_ban_for_Zurichs_prostitutes.html?cid=3307596 |url-status=dead }}
• Strichplatz{{cite web |last1=Bachmann |first1=Helena |title=Sex in the city: Zurich's prostitution 'sex boxes' deemed success in Switzerland |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/08/24/sex-boxes-make-legal-prostitution-safe-zurich-switzerland-europe/1083444002/ |website=USA TODAY |access-date=1 February 2019 |language=en |date=24 August 2018}}
• Bern
• Lorraine{{cite web |last1=Hunt |first1=Julie |title=Red light Bern |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/red-light-bern/1016756 |website=SWI Swissinfo |access-date=5 December 2017 |date=8 April 2008}}
• Geneva
• Les Pâquis{{Cite web |url=http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/guide/geneva/aroundstation.html |title=Geneva : around the train station |access-date=19 December 2009}}
• Lausanne
• Sevelin{{cite web |title=Red Light Districts – Switzerland |url=http://wp12483772.server-he.de/articles/lausanne.html |website=RLD-Europa |access-date=5 December 2017}}

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{{See also|Prostitution in the United Kingdom}}

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).{{cite web |url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2009/ukpga_20090026_en_4#pt2-pb1-l1g14 |title=Policing and Crime Act 2009 |publisher=Opsi.gov.uk |access-date=7 September 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin/unworkable-ways-to-stop-trafficking-uk-law-on-exploitation-and-gain |title=This won't stop trafficking: UK law on exploitation and gain |website=Nodo50.org |date=6 April 2010 |access-date=7 September 2015}}

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• Bradford
• Manningham – the red light district is situated around Lumb Lane and Manningham Lane and was featured in the TV series Band of Gold.{{cite web |last1=Carter |first1=Helen |last2=Pidd |first2=Helen |last3=Wainwright |first3=Martin |title=Bradford residents describe fatal addiction of city's sex workers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/may/27/bradford-murders-sex-workers-drugs |website=The Guardian |access-date=10 April 2019 |date=27 May 2010}}
• Huddersfield
• Great Northern Street{{cite web |last1=Earnshaw |first1=Tony |title=LISTEN: Huddersfield's red light district inspires rapper Arro Jones |url=https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/listen-huddersfields-red-light-district-12250821 |website=huddersfieldexaminer |access-date=3 January 2019 |date=7 December 2016}}
• Leeds
• Chapeltown – the traditional red light-area was around the Spencer Place and Avenue Hill streets. This has diminished in importance since the emergence of Holbeck as a red-light district.{{cite web |last1=Newton |first1=Grace |title=Why Chapeltown in Leeds was the Yorkshire Ripper's 'hunting ground' |url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/why-chapeltown-in-leeds-was-the-yorkshire-ripper-s-hunting-ground-1-9673861 |website=www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en |date=26 March 2019}}
• Holbeck – Under a scheme started in October 2014, initiated by West Yorkshire Police and Leeds City Council, sex workers may trade without fear of arrest on an industrial estate in Leeds' Holbeck district; providing they obey various rules, including only working between 7 pm and 7 am and only working within the area.{{cite web |title=The Realities of the UK's First 'Legal' Red Light District |url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/holbeck-leeds-sex-work-scheme-policing-austerity |website=vice.com |date=11 February 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Mattingly |first1=Nick |title=Inside Britain's red light district |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/a4aa5e2d-406b-44ca-9002-8543291d2dbb |website=BBC Three |date=12 July 2016|archive-date=2 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602162655/https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/a4aa5e2d-406b-44ca-9002-8543291d2dbb}} This scheme was scrapped in 2021.
• Leicester
• South Highfields (defunct){{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/3232488.stm |title=Council to tackle kerb crawling |publisher=BBC News |access-date=19 July 2006 |date=24 November 2003}}
• London
• Gropecunt Lane (possible medieval; defunct){{cite news |url=http://money.guardian.co.uk/homebuying/story/0,1456,1195113,00.html |title=A street by any other name...might be easier to sell |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=19 July 2006 |location=London |date=18 April 2004 |first=Chris |last=Partridge}}
• King's Cross{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4669584.stm |title=A clean sweep in King's Cross |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 July 2006 |date=7 March 2006 |first=Emma |last=Griffiths}}
• Piccadilly Circus (defunct){{Cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1899423,00.html |title=Sex, please — we're British |work=The Sunday Times |access-date=19 July 2006 |location=London |date=11 December 2005 |first1=Graham |last1=Hutson |first2=Mal |last2=Siret|archive-date=25 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725174954/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1899423,00.html}}
• Bayswater{{cite web |title=Paddington: Bayswater |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp204-212 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |publisher=British History Online |access-date=10 April 2019}}
• Earl's Court{{cite web |last1=Giwa |first1=Margaret |title=Earl's Court Ward Survey |url=https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/PDF/CLLL%20Earl's%20Court%20survey%20report.pdf |publisher=Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |access-date=10 April 2019 |date=March 2012}}
• Shepherd Market{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvVE7nD6FLgC&pg=PT240 |page=240 |title=City of Sin: London and its Vices |author=Catharine Arnold |publisher=Simon and Schuster |date=5 August 2010 |isbn=9780857200259}}
• Soho{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2754019.stm |title=Sex workers say 'let us stay' |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 July 2006 |date=18 February 2003 |first=Jon |last=Silverman}}
• Middlesbrough
• Over the Border / St Hilda's{{Cite news |date=18 January 2006 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article789542.ece |title=Naming-and-shaming policy that stopped kerb crawlers |author=Will Pavia |work=The Times |location=London }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web |title=BBC – We Are Teesside |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/weareteesside/2004/03/prostitution/secos.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=22 February 2020}}
• Nottingham
• Forest Road{{cite news |title=Prostitution: The Secrets of the Streets |url=http://www.impactnottingham.com/2011/12/prostitution-the-secrets-of-the-streets/ |access-date=18 July 2013 |newspaper=Impact Magazine |date=14 December 2011 |author=Samantha Owen |author2=Rose Bewick}}
• Mapperley Road{{cite web |last1=Brice |first1=Rebecca |title=A night in Nottingham's red-light district |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2009/05/06/prostitutes_series_feature.shtml |website=BBC |access-date=25 January 2018 |date=7 May 2009}}
• Plymouth
• Millbay{{cite web |last1=Eve |first1=Carl |title=Inside Plymouth's red-light district on patrol with the police |url=http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/inside-plymouths-red-light-district-752405 |website=The Herald |access-date=5 December 2017 |date=25 February 2013}}
• Portsmouth
• Sailortown (defunct){{cite web |last1=Davey |first1=Kieran |title=Prostitutes and scammers: New app will show the dangerous and disturbing history of Portsmouth's old town |url=https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/our-region/portsmouth/prostitutes-and-scammers-new-app-will-show-the-dangerous-and-disturbing-history-of-portsmouth-s-old-town-1-7922175 |website=Portsmouth News |access-date=5 December 2017 |date=20 April 2017}}
• Preston, Lancashire
• Fletcher Road/St Mary's Street{{cite web |title=More women are selling sex on Preston's streets |url=https://www.lep.co.uk/news/latest/more-women-are-selling-sex-on-preston-s-streets-1-71951 |publisher=Lancashire Post |access-date=12 May 2019 |language=en |date=6 May 2008|archive-date=12 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512091849/https://www.lep.co.uk/news/latest/more-women-are-selling-sex-on-preston-s-streets-1-71951}}
• Reading
• Oxford Road and its adjoining streets{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/6506445.stm |title=Vice crackdown sees 22 arrested |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 March 2008 |date=29 March 2007}}{{cite web |last1=Fort |first1=Linda |title=Reading anti-social behaviour: prostitution and begging hot spots |url=https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/reading-anti-social-behaviour-prostitution-11038517 |website=getreading |access-date=10 February 2020 |date=15 March 2016}}{{cite web |title=Abbey Outer & Battle Neighbourhood Policing Monthly Newsletter March – April 2019 |url=https://www.thamesvalleyalert.co.uk/images/site_images/47514_Abbey_Outer___Battle_Monthly_Update___March_April_2019.pdf |publisher=Thames Valley Police |access-date=13 February 2020}}{{cite web |title=One hundred kerb-crawlers caught looking for sex |url=https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/one-hundred-kerb-crawlers-caught-looking-4231158 |website=getreading |access-date=15 February 2020 |date=27 January 2010}}

• Shrewsbury
• Grope Lane (medieval; defunct){{Cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.shrewsburyguide.info/shrewsbury_tour/tour_02.shtml |title=To St Alkmund's Place |publisher=Virtual Shropshire |access-date=19 July 2006|archive-date=3 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103204818/http://www.shrewsburyguide.info/shrewsbury_tour/tour_02.shtml}}{{cite book |last1=Trumper |first1=David |title=Lost Shrewsbury |date=2019 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=978-1-4456-9363-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YVe-DwAAQBAJ&q=light |language=en}}
• Mountfields (defunct){{Cite book |title=Shrewsbury: A Biography |last=Williams-Karesch |first=Jrschina |publisher=MPR |year=2003 |isbn=978-0948579134 |location=Shrewsbury }}
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Cobridge{{cite news |url=http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/crewe-news/local-crewe-news/2003/12/03/officers-clamp-down-on-kerbcrawlers-96135-13686955/ |title=Officers clamp down on kerbcrawlers |work=Crewe Chronicle |access-date=7 September 2015}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWTBe6Cx66YC&q=Cobridge+%22red+light+district%22&pg=PA166 |title=Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country, The Potteries and the Peak – Michael Raven – Google Books |date=1 December 2004 |access-date=7 September 2015 |isbn=9780906114339 |last1=Raven |first1=Michael|publisher=Michael Raven }}
• Swindon
• Manchester Road/Gorse Hill{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4825406.stm |title=Action promised over prostitutes |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 July 2006 |date=20 March 2006}}
• Rivers Way
• Wolverhampton
• All Saints/Parkfield/ Horseley Fields/West Park{{Cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/policing_safety/crime_law/street_sex_trade/regenerating.htm |title=Regenerating All Saints, Blakenhall and Parkfield |publisher=Wolverhampton City Council |access-date=19 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521181910/http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/policing_safety/crime_law/street_sex_trade/regenerating.htm |archive-date=21 May 2007 }}

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{{see also|Prostitution in Northern Ireland}}

• Belfast
• Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast (defunct){{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/727697/Belfast-Rebirth-of-a-once-great-city.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/727697/Belfast-Rebirth-of-a-once-great-city.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Belfast: Rebirth of a once-great city |date=17 June 2003 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=21 December 2015}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2007/08/belfast_by_bus.html |title=Belfast by Bus |author=Mark Devenport |date=29 August 2007 |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 December 2015}}
• Amelia Street (defunct)
• Linenhall Street{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4621890.stm |title=NIO pledge on prostitution laws |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 July 2006 |date=17 January 2006}}

{{see also|Prostitution in Scotland}}

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• Edinburgh
• Defunct Leith/Coburg Street/Salamander Street (all defunct){{Cite web |year=2004 |url=http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/lg/or-04/lg04-1502.htm |title=Local Government and Transport Committee Official Report Tuesday 1 June 2004 |publisher=Scottish Parliament |access-date=19 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011172953/http://scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/lg/or-04/lg04-1502.htm |archive-date=11 October 2007}}
• Edinburgh does have brothels, but not a red light district.
• Glasgow
• Blythswood Square (defunct)

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• Cardiff
• Tiger Bay{{Cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Ceri |title=#towerlives: Rise of towers and fall of Tiger Bay |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35997410 |journal=BBC News |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=11 April 2016}}
• Newport
• Commercial Road, Pillgwenlly (Pill){{cite web |last1=McCarthy |first1=James |title=Inside the Red Light District in a Welsh city where sex sells at all hours |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/inside-red-light-district-welsh-12306538 |website=walesonline |access-date=22 February 2020 |date=12 December 2016}}

Prostitution is legal, but related activities are prohibited.

{{See also|Prostitution in Antigua and Barbuda}}

• St. John's
• Popeshead Street.{{cite web |last1=Henry |first1=Brenton |title=MALE SEX WORKERS: A glimpse into their thriving, secret trade |url=https://antiguaobserver.com/male-sex-workers-a-glimpse-into-their-thriving-secret-trade/ |website=Antigua Observer Newspaper |access-date=19 March 2018 |date=6 June 2013 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330045506/https://antiguaobserver.com/male-sex-workers-a-glimpse-into-their-thriving-secret-trade/ |url-status=dead }}

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

• Sint Nicolaas.{{cite web |title=Red Light Aruba |url=http://www.redlightaruba.com/ |website=RedLightAruba.Com |access-date=23 December 2017}}

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

• Bridgetown
• Nelson street{{cite web |title=Popular Caribbean Sex Tourism Destinations |url=http://www.jamaicainquirer.com/popular-caribbean-sex-tourism-destinations/ |website=Jamaica Inquirer |access-date=22 December 2017 |archive-date=22 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222112144/http://www.jamaicainquirer.com/popular-caribbean-sex-tourism-destinations/ |url-status=dead }}

File:Quartier_Sainte-Marie.jpg 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}}

• Montreal {{See also|Sexe de rue}}
• Red-Light District (historic): The area centred around Saint Catherine Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard was historically the city's red light district throughout much of the 20th century, as well as being known for strip clubs and sex shops. In recent decades this has changed drastically as the area gentrified into the Quartier des Spectacles and today prostitution is virtually nonexistent.

File:Rue Dufresne.jpgs from the 1990s to 2010s]]

• Centre-Sud: The Centre-Sud, of which Sainte-Marie is a part, was notorious for prostitution from the 1990s well into the 2010s, particularly on Ontario Street and Dufresne Street. In recent years, gentrification has changed this significantly.{{cite news|title=Prostitution dans le quartier Centre-Sud: les citoyens exigent des solutions|url=https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2002/09/18/prostitution-dans-le-quartier-centre-sud-les-citoyens-exigent-des-solutions|publisher=TVA Nouvelles|location=Montreal|date=18 September 2002|access-date=22 November 2020|language=French}}{{cite news|title=Prostitution dans le Centre-Sud de Montréal – Le groupe Stella n'apprécie pas les opérations policières|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/1493/prostitution-dans-le-centre-sud-de-montreal-le-groupe-stella-n-apprecie-pas-les-operations-policieres|publisher=Le Devoir|location=Montreal|date=21 May 2002|access-date=23 January 2021|language=French}}{{cite news|title=Une nuit avec Capone|url=https://www.lapresse.ca/vivre/urbania/200910/21/01-913463-une-nuit-avec-capone.php|publisher=La Presse|location=Montreal|date=26 October 2009|access-date=4 January 2021|language=French}}{{cite book|title=Pute de Rue|publisher=Éditions des Intouchables|author=Nadeau, Roxanne|date=24 September 2003|isbn=2-89549-119-4|language=French|url=https://www.gallimardmontreal.com/catalogue/livre/pute-de-rue-nadeau-roxanne-9782895491194}}{{cite book|title=Hôtel Jolicoeur|publisher=Self-Publication|author=Collective authors|date=January 2013|isbn=978-2-9813755-0-6|language=French|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/lire/373278/les-vies-revees-d-un-bordel-disparu}}{{cite book|title=L'enfer d'une fille de rue|publisher=Béliveau Éditeur|author=St-Sauveur, Isa-Belle|date=2020|isbn=978-2-89793-106-3|language=French|url= https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/02/27/lenfer-dune-fille-de-rue}}Sexe de rue
• Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: Known for prostitution, particularly in the lower southwestern Hochelaga segment.{{cite news|title=Police issue warnings to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve sex workers|url=https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/police-issue-warnings-to-hochelaga-maisonneuve-sex-workers-1.533486|publisher=CTV News|location=Montreal|date=17 July 2010|access-date=9 February 2021}}{{cite news|first=Ewan|last=Sauves|title=Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: des appartements pour les prostituées dès 2013|url=https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/201210/21/01-4585520-hochelaga-maisonneuve-des-appartements-pour-les-prostituees-des-2013.php|publisher=La Presse|location=Montreal|date=21 October 2012|access-date=4 December 2020|language=French}}{{cite news|first=Steve|last=Caron|title=Prostitution : une zone de tolérance dans Hochelaga-Maisonneuve?

|url=https://journalmetro.com/local/hochelaga-maisonneuve/633467/prostitution-une-zone-de-tolerance-dans-hochelaga-maisonneuve/|publisher=Journal Métro|location=Montreal|date=14 June 2012|access-date=4 December 2020|language=French}}{{cite news|title=Une piquerie d'Hochelaga exaspère les voisins|url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/07/24/une-piquerie-dhochelaga-exaspere-les-voisins|publisher=Journal de Montréal|location=Montreal|date=24 July 2020|access-date=26 November 2020|language=French}}{{cite news|first=Dominique|last=Forget|title=Mon quartier me rend malade|url=https://lactualite.com/sante-et-science/mon-quartier-me-rend-malade/|publisher=L'Actualité|location=Montreal|date=8 May 2013|access-date=22 November 2020|language=French}}

• Ahuntsic: Located in the north end of Montreal, parts of the Ahuntsic neighbourhood have long been known for prostitution and drugs, partly due to a large presence of cheap motels on Lajeunesse Street and proximity to Quebec Autoroute 40.{{cite news|title=Residents warn prostitution plagues Ahuntsic neighbourhood|url=https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/residents-warn-prostitution-plagues-ahuntsic-neighbourhood-1.853219|publisher=CTV News|location=Montreal|date=25 June 2012|access-date=5 June 2021}}{{cite news|title=Prostitution en croissance dans le quartier Ahuntsic|url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/589349/prostitution-croissance-ahuntsic|publisher=Radio Canada|location=Montreal|date=18 June 2019|access-date=5 June 2021|language=French}}
• 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.{{Cite book|last=Francis|first=Daniel|title=Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouvers Sex Trade|publisher=Subway Books|year=2006|isbn=978-0973667523|location=Vancouver, BC|pages=1–192}}
• West End, Vancouver: An unofficial city red-light district located on and around Davie Street. The sex work hub from the 1960s-1983.{{Cite web|date=17 May 2019|title=Vancouver's Anti-Sex Work Gentrification Projects are a Form of Imperialism|url=http://thevolcano.org/2019/05/17/vancouvers-anti-sex-work-gentrification-projects-are-a-form-of-imperialism/|access-date=2021-04-06|website=The Volcano|language=en-US}} 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.Cole, Dale, J. (Director). (1984). Hookers on Davie [Video file]. Canada: Spectrum Films. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ixQS_Ihdk{{Cite web|date=11 July 2014|title=Advocates seek Vancouver apology and memorial for displaced West End sex workers|url=https://www.straight.com/news/89556/advocates-seek-vancouver-apology-and-memorial-displaced-west-end-sex-workers|access-date=2021-04-06|website=The Georgia Straight|language=en}} The location of the informative documentary Hookers on Davie. 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.
• Downtown Eastside: An unlisted district in Vancouver where workers face routine violence and harassment.Lyons, Tara (2017). [https://www.powerottawa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Lyons-et-al-2017.pdf "The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing" (PDF)]. Sexualities Article. Retrieved 6 April 2021. 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.{{Cite web|title=Women working in Vancouver sex trade were seen as "disposable," inquiry hears – NEWS 1130|url=https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/04/04/b-c-hearings-start-with-repeated-call-for-more-time-for-missing-women-inquiry/|access-date=2021-04-06|website=www.citynews1130.com|date=4 April 2018 }} 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.Sex Workers United Against Violence; Allan, Sarah; Bennett, Darcy; Chettiar, Jill; Jackson, Grace; Krüsi,, Andrea; Pacey, Katrina; Porth, Kerry; Price, Mae (2020). [https://wish-vancouver.net/content/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/My_Work_Should_Not_Cost_Me_My_Life.pdf "My Work Should Not Cost Me My Life" (PDF).] The Case against Criminalizing the Purchase of Sex in Canada. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

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

{{See also|Prostitution in Costa Rica}}

• San José
• Gringo Gulch{{cite web |title=Costa Rica Prostitution – What's the Deal With Prostitutes? |url=http://www.sanjosecostarica.com/costa-rica-prostitution/ |website=San Jose Costa Rica |access-date=12 April 2018}}

Prostitution is legal, but procuring is prohibited.{{cite web |title=100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies |url=https://prostitution.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000772#guatemala |website=Procon |access-date=1 January 2018 |archive-date=12 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312110733/https://prostitution.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000772#guatemala |url-status=dead }}

• Guatemala City
• La Linea{{cite web |title=Prostitutes play the beautiful game |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3985857.stm |website=BBC |access-date=1 January 2018 |date=6 November 2004}}
• El Trebol{{cite web |title=MuJER Guatemala – Our story |url=http://mujerguatemala.org/about-us/our-story/ |website=MuJER Guatemala |access-date=2 January 2018 |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930145035/http://mujerguatemala.org/about-us/our-story/ |url-status=dead }}
• Parque Concordia

Image:tamyko.jpg in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico]]

Prostitution is legal and regulated.

{{See also|Prostitution in Mexico}}

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• Mexico City
• La Merced Market{{cite journal |last=Barranco Chavarría |first=Alberto |title=La Merced: Siglos de Comerico |journal=Ciudadanos en Red |url=http://www.ciudadanosenred.com.mx/?cve=327 |access-date=16 February 2010}}
• Zona Rosa{{cite news|url=http://www.ciudadanosenred.com.mx/?cve=327 |title=La Zona Rosa lucha por superar lastre historico |author=Anibal Santiago |newspaper=Reforma |location=Mexico City |date=19 February 2003 |page=6 |language=es |trans-title=Zona Rosa struggles to overcome historic burden|archive-date=30 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330030411/http://www.ciudadanosenred.com.mx/?cve=327}}
• Nuevo Laredo
• Zona de Tolerancia{{Cite web |year=2001 |url=http://www.mrp.txstate.edu/mrp/relations/NewsReleases/2001/04/4n1.html |title=SWWC Boystown exhibit both mesmerizing, disturbing |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=18 July 2006|archive-date=4 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904135109/http://www.mrp.txstate.edu/mrp/relations/NewsReleases/2001/04/4n1.html}}
• Tijuana
• Zona Norte{{cite news |title=From the street to discreet |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20041011-9999-1m11move.html |newspaper=San Diego Union-Tribune |first=Anna |last=Cearley |date=11 October 2004|archive-date=15 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015111255/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20041011-9999-1m11move.html}}
• Tuxtla Gutiérrez
• Zona Galáctica{{Cite web |year=2001 |url=http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/lessons_learned_mexican_brothel |title=Lessons from a Mexican Brothel |publisher=National Sexuality Resource Center |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720115332/http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/lessons_learned_mexican_brothel |archive-date=20 July 2010}}

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• Panama City
• El Cangrejo{{cite web |title=Fantastic Food, Expats, Einstein's Head, And Hookers—Exploring The Streets Of El Cangrejo |url=https://www.liveandinvestoverseas.com/in-focus-panama/el-cangrejo-panama-city-food-friends-and-entertainment/ |website=Live and Invest Overseas |access-date=20 December 2017 |date=3 December 2015}}

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}}

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• Anchorage, Alaska
• Alley B, Spenard (1914 to 1954){{cite web |last1=Mason |first1=Rachel |title=Red Light District Ethnohistory in Seward, Alaska |url=https://www.nps.gov/kefj/learn/historyculture/upload/red-light-disctrict-ethnohistory-in-seward.pdf |website=www.nps.gov |access-date=23 February 2020}}
• South Addition (Closed 1916){{cite web |last1=Reamer |first1=David |title=How South Addition became Anchorage's first red-light district |url=https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/02/10/how-south-addition-became-anchorages-first-red-light-district/ |website=Anchorage Daily News |access-date=23 February 2020 |date=10 February 2020}}
• Spenard Road (defunct){{cite web |title=Adults Only: Former Adult Store on Spenard Road in Anchorage- 1 |url=http://www2.lifeinusa.com/communities/anchorage-ak/adults-only-former-adult-store-spenard-road |website=www2.lifeinusa.com |access-date=23 February 2020 |language=en |date=8 July 2016}}
• Ketchikan, Alaska
• Creek Street (c.1903–1954){{cite web |title=Alaska's Old Red Light District: Ketchikan, Alaska |url=https://blog.ymtvacations.com/bootleggers-and-brothels-alaskas-old-red-light-district |publisher=Y. M. T. Vacations |access-date=23 February 2020 |language=en-us |date=19 May 2016}}
• Skagway, Alaska
• 7th Avenue (closed c.1910){{cite web |title=Red Light District |url=https://www.alaska.org/detail/red-light-district |website=Alaska.org |access-date=23 February 2020}}
• Phoenix, Arizona
• Van Buren Street{{cite web |title=Man Held In Deaths Of 5 Prostitutes |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-held-in-deaths-of-5-prostitutes/ |website=www.cbsnews.com |access-date=23 February 2020 |date=14 April 2003}}
• Tucson, Arizona
• Miracle Mile{{cite web |title=The Three P's Project – Pimps, Prostitutes, and Pushers |url=https://popcenter.asu.edu/sites/default/files/library/awards/goldstein/1999/99-68.pdf |publisher=Tucson Police Department |access-date=23 February 2020 |date=May 1999}}
• Los Angeles, California
• Figueroa Street{{cite web|title=L.A. seeks to thwart sex trade on Figueroa |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-13-me-figueroa13-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=9 April 2020 |date=13 May 2008}}
• Sepulveda Boulevard{{cite web |last1=Woods |first1=Wes |title=LA crackdown on pimps, prostitutes and johns gets new allies: tree trimmers |url=http://www.dailynews.com/2017/01/27/la-crackdown-on-pimps-prostitutes-and-johns-gets-new-allies-tree-trimmers/ |website=Los Angeles Daily News |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=27 January 2017}}
• Sunset Boulevard (historical){{cite book |last1=Till |first1=Rupert |title=Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music |date=2010 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-3236-0 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gC0JA6is7REC&q=sunset+boulevard+red+light+%22district%22+divine+brown&pg=PA19 |language=en}}
• Western Avenue, Hollywood{{cite web |last1=Folven |first1=Edwin |title=Cops Crack Down on Western Avenue Prostitution |url=http://beverlypress.com/2012/02/cops-crack-down-on-western-avenue-prostitution/ |website=Beverly Press |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=2 February 2012|archive-date=7 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207084046/https://beverlypress.com/2012/02/cops-crack-down-on-western-avenue-prostitution/}}
• San Diego, California
• Stingaree (historical){{cite journal |last1=McKanna |first1=Clare V. |editor1-last=Scharf |editor1-first=Thomas L. |title=Prostitutes, Progressives, and Police |journal=The Journal of San Diego History |date=Winter 1989 |volume=35 |issue=1 |url=https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1989/january/prostitutes/}}
• San Francisco, California
• Barbary Coast (historical){{cite book |last1=Asbury |first1=Herbert |title=The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld |date=2002 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-1-56025-408-9 |page=104 |language=en}}
• Broadway/Columbus Avenue{{cite web |title=Broadway, San Francisco editorial photography. Image of broadway – 140145752 |url=https://www.dreamstime.com/broadway-san-francisco-usa-april-street-traditionally-sf-s-red-light-district-image140145752 |website=Dreamstime |access-date=28 February 2020 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=San Francisco Red Light District |url=http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/california/san-francisco/red-light-district |website=www.destination360.com |access-date=28 February 2020 |language=en}}
• Tenderloin (historic){{Cite book |title=San Francisco Off the Beaten Path |edition=2nd |author1=Petrocelli, Michael |author2=Cass, Maxine |year=2004 |page=12 |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |isbn=9780762734696}}
• Cripple Creek, Colorado
• Myers Avenue (defunct){{cite web |last1=Wommack |first1=Linda |title=The Old Homestead House Museum Shines As the Pearl of Cripple Creek {{!}} HistoryNet |url=http://www.historynet.com/old-homestead-house-museum-shines-pearl-cripple-creek.htm |website=www.historynet.com |access-date=8 May 2018 |date=10 May 2017}}
• Denver, Colorado
• East Colfax Avenue{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Alan |title=Cities of Pleasure: Sex and the Urban Socialscape |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-99881-5 |pages=1975–6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zS7cAAAAQBAJ&q=east+colfax+avenue+denver+red+light+district&pg=PA1975 |language=en}}
• Market Street (closed 1913){{cite web |last1=Sneesby-Koch |first1=Ann |title=A Brief Walk Along Denver's Notorious Market Street |publisher= History Colorado |url=https://www.historycolorado.org/story/going-places/2018/11/26/brief-walk-along-denvers-notorious-market-street |website=www.historycolorado.org |access-date=23 February 2020 |date=26 November 2018}}
• Orlando, Florida
• OBT, also known as Orange Blossom Trail (historical){{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=Steve |last2=Kelly |first2=Jason |title=Orange Blossom Trail: Same problems decades later |url=https://www.wftv.com/news/local/orange-blossom-trail-same-problems-decades-later/783296464 |access-date=18 September 2018 |publisher=ABC WFTV Channel 9 NEWS |date=6 July 2018}}
• Tampa, Florida
• Nebraska Avenue (Active){{cite web |title=Prostitution Legal on Nebraska Ave |url=https://tampanewsforce.com/prostitution-legal-on-nebraska-ave/ |website=Tampa News Force |access-date=8 October 2019 |date=16 July 2019}}
• East Adamo Drive, also known as Florida State Road 60{{cite web |title=Tampa strip clubs and the battle to bare it all: How the lap dance was outlawed 20 years ago |url=https://www.tampabay.com/florida/2019/06/06/tampa-strip-clubs-and-the-battle-to-bare-it-all-how-the-lap-dance-was-outlawed-20-years-ago/ |website=Tampa Bay Times |access-date=8 October 2019 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Tampa serial killer Bobby Joe Long is scheduled to be executed tonight. We remember the victims. |url=https://www.tampabay.com/florida/2019/04/25/tampa-serial-killer-bobby-joe-longs-death-warrant-was-just-signed-we-remember-the-victims/ |website=Tampa Bay Times |access-date=8 October 2019 |language=en}}
• Drew Park
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Cheshire Bridge Road{{cite web|first=Jordan |last=Friedman |url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-216768-what-to-do-with-cheshire-bridge-road |title=What to do with Cheshire Bridge Road? |publisher=Creative Loafing |date=15 February 2013|archive-date=1 January 2016|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101205254/http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2013/02/15/what-to-do-with-cheshire-bridge-road}}
• Metropolitan Parkway{{cite web |last1=Stuart |first1=Gwynedd |title=Metropolitan Parkway's prostitution problem turns violent |url=http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2010/10/13/metropolitan-avenues-prostitution-problem-turns-violent |publisher=Creative Loafing Atlanta |access-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034133/http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2010/10/13/metropolitan-avenues-prostitution-problem-turns-violent |archive-date=4 March 2016 |date=13 October 2010 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://postpessimist.blogspot.com/2006/04/stewart-avenue.html|title=The Post-Pessimist Association: Stewart Avenue|last=Gsdgsd13|date=11 April 2006}}
• Murrell's Row{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyatlantag00reedgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyatlantag00reedgoog/page/n56 50] |quote=east tennessee virginia and georgia shops atlanta. |title=History of Atlanta, Georgia: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers |first=Wallace Putnam |last=Reed |date=28 April 1889 |publisher=D. Mason & Company |via=Internet Archive}}
• Slabtown (defunct){{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Thomas H. |title=Atlanta and Its Builders: A Comprehensive History of the Gate City of the South |url=https://archive.org/details/atlantaitsbuilde02mart |date=1902 |publisher=Century Memorial Publishing Company |pages=[https://archive.org/details/atlantaitsbuilde02mart/page/93 93]–94 |language=en |chapter=Progress And Outlawry}}
• Macon, Georgia
• Oak Street{{cite web |title=Top 5 GPS Nightmares in Macon – Guest Gatekeeper Top 5s – Gateway Macon |url=https://www.gatewaymacon.org/top-5-lists/top5gpsnightmares.cms |website=www.gatewaymacon.org |access-date=27 February 2020}}
• Savannah, Georgia
• Franklin Square area{{cite web |title=The Rail Pub |url=https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/savannah-ga/food-drink/the-rail-pub-savannah |website=Roadtrippers |access-date=27 February 2020 |language=en}}
• Honolulu, Hawaii
• Chinatown (defunct){{cite news |title= Chinatown: A bike city waiting to be reborn |author= Peter Wagner |date= 29 September 1998 |newspaper= Honolulu Star-Bulletin |url= http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/09/29/news/story3.html |access-date= 9 April 2010 }}
• Iwilei(defunct){{cite web |last1=McNeill |first1=Maggie |title=Honolulu Harlots |url=https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/honolulu-harlots/ |website=The Honest Courtesan |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=5 July 2011}}
• Hotel Street (defunct)
• Chicago, Illinois
• The Levee (historical)"Vice Districts." Vice Districts. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 December 2013. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1304.html.
• Davenport, Iowa
• Bucktown (historic){{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Sharon E. |title=The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City |date=2006 |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press |isbn=9780807876534 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0-azCowjICUC&q=Bucktown&pg=PA229 |page=213 |language=en}}
• Council Bluffs, Iowa
• South 24th Street area{{cite book |last1=Roenfeld |first1=Ryan |title="Tin Horn Gamblers and Dirty Prostitutes": Vice in 19th Century Council Bluffs |date=2014 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=978-1-5007-9779-9 |language=en}}
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Storyville (historical){{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work |volume=2 |page=462 |author=Ditmore, Melissa Hope |year=2006 |publisher=Greenwood Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5WyPfynlwMC |isbn=9780313329708}}
• Shreveport, Louisiana
• St. Paul's Bottoms (defunct){{Cite book |title=Red Light Shreveport's St. Paul's Bottoms Red Light District : an Experiment in Controlled Vice |author=Brock, Eric |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lAhFHAAACAAJ |isbn=9781605435008}}
• Baltimore, Maryland
• The Block: The 400 block of East Baltimore St, almost exclusively consists of adult entertainment businesses.{{cite web |last1=Woods |first1=Baynard |title=Red Light |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/citypaper/bcp-baltimanual-red-light-2013-story.html |website=baltimoresun.com |access-date=27 February 2020 |date=12 June 2014}}
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Anne Street (historic){{cite book |last1=Hobson |first1=Barbara Meil |title=Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition |date=1990 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-34557-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/uneasyvirtuepoli00hobs/page/26 26] |url=https://archive.org/details/uneasyvirtuepoli00hobs |url-access=registration |quote=ann. |language=en}}
• The Combat Zone (largely historical, mostly defunct){{cite web |url=https://www.boston.com/business/gallery/combat_zone_now_and_then/ |title=Now and then: Chinatown, Combat Zone |publisher=Boston.com |date=21 November 2011 |access-date=7 September 2015}}{{cite web |title=Guest Post: Anne Gray Fischer Presents A History of "The Combat Zone" |date=29 September 2009 |author=Anne Gray Fischer |url=http://v.tgdn.net/2009/09/guest-post-anne-gray-fischer-history-of-the-combat-zone.html |access-date=18 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724094357/http://v.tgdn.net/2009/09/guest-post-anne-gray-fischer-history-of-the-combat-zone.html |archive-date=24 July 2011}}
• Detroit, Michigan
• 8 Mile Road{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Paul |title=Eight miles of murder |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/16/usa.paulharris |website=The Guardian |access-date=13 June 2020 |language=en |date=16 April 2006}}
• Michigan Ave{{cite web |last1=Firant |first1=Laurel |title=Ypsilanti Township steps up prostitution crackdown |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2008/10/ypsilanti_township_steps_up_pr.html |website=MLive.com |access-date=27 January 2019 |date=19 October 2008}}
• Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Division Avenue{{cite book |last1=Trotter |first1=Melvin Earnest |author-link1=Mel Trotter |title=These Forty Years |date=1939 |publisher=Marshall, Morgan & Scott |page=31 |language=en}}
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• River Street (historic){{cite web |last1=Prigge |first1=Matthew |title=Milwaukee's Red Light District: When Vice Flourished Downtown|url=https://shepherdexpress.com/news/features/milwaukees-red-light-district-when-vice-flourished-downtown/#/questions|website=Shepheard Express|access-date=22 May 2020|date=23 January 2018}}
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Mill District (historic){{cite web |last1=Zurowski |first1=Cory |title=Iida Dorsey's brothel and the heyday of Minneapolis' red light district |url=http://www.citypages.com/news/iida-dorseys-brothel-and-the-heyday-of-minneapolis-red-light-district/456707903 |website=City Pages |access-date=27 February 2020 |date=13 November 2017}}
• Kansas City, Missouri
• Independence Ave
• Butte, Montana
• Venus Alley{{cite web |title=Venus Alley – Butte, Montana |url=http://www.cityprofile.com/montana/venus-alley.html |website=www.cityprofile.com |access-date=27 April 2019}}
• Omaha, Nebraska
• Burnt District (historic){{cite book |last1=Peattie |first1=Elia Wilkinson |title=Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, a Journalist in the Gilded Age |date=2005 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-3748-3 |page=272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsWN4zvNkhcC |language=en}}
• Sporting DistrictMenard, O.D. (1989) Political Bossism in Mid America: Tom Dennison's Omaha, 1900–1933. University Press of America. p. 107. (historical)
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Block 16 (closed in 1942){{cite web |last1=Comella |first1=Lynn |title=Looking at the history of prostitution in Las Vegas |url=https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/2012/jul/04/marie-rowley-explores-history-prostitution-las-veg/ |website=LasVegasWeekly.com |access-date=7 May 2018 |date=4 July 2012}}
• Boulder Highway
• Fremont Street
• Las Vegas Strip{{cite web |title=Operation PIMP Makes Huge Bust in Las Vegas |url=https://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/operation-pimp-makes-huge-bust-in-las-vegas/81333182 |website=LAS VEGAS NOW |access-date=27 January 2019 |date=26 June 2006}}
• Reno, Nevada
• The Stockade (closed 1940s){{cite book |last1=Cunningham |first1=Scott |last2=Shah |first2=Manisha |title=The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780190465223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1S9ADQAAQBAJ&q=goldfield+nevada+brothels&pg=PT446}}
• Rhyolite, Nevada
• Tenderloin (Defunct){{cite web |first=Bob |last=McCracken |title=Brothels, mines of equal value during Rhyolite boom |url=https://pvtimes.com/news/brothels-mines-of-equal-value-during-rhyolite-boom/ |website=Pahrump Valley Times |access-date=8 May 2018 |date=24 October 2014}}
• Tonopah, Nevada
• Corona Avenue area (closed 1915){{cite web |last1=McCracken |first1=Bob |title=By turn of century, Nevada towns began regulating red light districts |url=https://pvtimes.com/news/by-turn-of-century-nevada-towns-began-regulating-red-light-districts/ |website=Pahrump Valley Times |access-date=6 May 2018 |date=12 September 2014}}
• St. Patrick Street area (closed 1952){{cite web |last1=McCracken |first1=Bob |title=Changes in Tonopah: Taxscine dies of a broken heart |url=https://pvtimes.com/news/changes-in-tonopah-taxscine-dies-of-a-broken-heart/ |website=Pahrump Valley Times |access-date=6 May 2018 |date=3 October 2014}}
• Atlantic City, New Jersey
• "The Atlantic City Boardwalk" near the casinos{{cite web |last1=Kocieniewski |first1=David |last2=Kovaleski |first2=Serge F. |title=In Glittery Atlantic City, 4 Walked Deadly Path |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/nyregion/05slay.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=27 February 2020 |date=5 December 2006}}
• New York City
• "The Deuce" near Times Square. Comprised West 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. (defunct/culturally significant/historical){{Cite web |url=http://forgotten-ny.com/2006/06/deuce-42nd-street-manhattan/ |title=DEUCE (42nd STREET), Manhattan |publisher=Forgotten New York |date=June 2006 |access-date=24 December 2015}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.sleazoidexpress.com/ |title=SLEAZOID EXPRESS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026025023/http://www.sleazoidexpress.com/ |archive-date=26 October 2009 }}
• Hunts Point, Bronx: Historically known for prostitution{{cite web |last1=Turkewitz |first1=Julie |title=New York's Red-Light District in Photos |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/new-yorks-red-light-district-in-photos/266491/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=27 February 2020 |date=20 December 2012}} and was subject of the film Hookers at the Point
• Minnesota Strip (defunct){{cite web|author=Brooks of Sheffield |url=http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2009/03/where-streets-had-name_22.html |title=Lost City: Where the Streets Had a Name |publisher=Lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com |date=22 March 2009 |access-date=6 September 2011}}
• SoHo, Manhattan (historic){{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/SoHo_HD.pdf |title=SoHo – Cast-Iron Historic District Designation Report |publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |date=14 August 1973|archive-date=15 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315221758/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/SoHo_HD.pdf|page=6}}
• Tenderloin, Manhattan (defunct)Elsroad, Lisa. "Tenderloin" in {{cite enc-nyc}}, p.1161
• Christopher Street Pier (defunct) known for its LGBTQ+ prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s. Referenced in shows such as Pose
• Times Square (defunct/culturally significant/historical){{cite web |last1=Jen |first1=Carlson |title=A Look Back At The Real Deuce: Times Square In The 1970s |url=http://gothamist.com/2017/09/08/1970s_times_square_the_deuce.php |website=Gothamist |access-date=7 December 2017 |date=8 September 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105170332/http://gothamist.com/2017/09/08/1970s_times_square_the_deuce.php |archive-date=5 November 2017 }}
• Minot, North Dakota
• High Third (historical)Michael J. Martin and Glenn H. Smith, "Vice and Violence in Ward County, North Dakota, 1905–1920", North Dakota History, 1980, Vol. 47, Issue 2, pp. 10–21
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Hell's Half Acre (historic){{cite book |last1=Provine |first1=Jeff |last2=McCoy |first2=Tanya |title=Haunted Oklahoma City |date=2016 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4396-5762-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iTVDAAAQBAJ&q=oklahoma+city+red+light+district&pg=PT17 |language=en}}
• Valley Brook{{cite web |title=Oklahoma City High Crime Areas I Avoid When Possible |url=https://www.1to1riskcontrol.com/oklahoma-city-high-crime-areas-avoid/ |website=1 to 1 Risk Control & Investigations |access-date=14 July 2019 |date=3 June 2016}}
• Chester, Pennsylvania
• Bethel Court (defunct){{cite book |last1=Mele |first1=Christopher |title=Race and the Politics of Deception |date=2017 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4798-6609-0 |pages=27–29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAl3DQAAQBAJ |access-date=10 May 2020}}
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia: Known for street prostitution;{{cite web |last1=Deeney |first1=Jeff |title=Philadelphia's Kensington Avenue: Heroin, Prostitution, and No Police |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/philadelphias-kensington-avenue-heroin-prostitution-and-no-police |website=www.thedailybeast.com |access-date=27 January 2019 |language=en |date=13 August 2011}} infamous for The Kensington Strangler who was captured in 2011
• Northern Liberties (largely historical, mostly defunct){{Cite web |url=http://www.centercityphila.org/life/nhood_northliberties.php |title=Neighborhood: Northern Liberties |publisher=Center City Philadelphia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203225355/http://www.centercityphila.org/life/nhood_northliberties.php |archive-date=3 February 2015 }}{{Cite web |url=http://elfantwissahickon.com/2013/06/neighborhood-profile-northern-liberties/ |title=Neighborhood Profile: NORTHERN LIBERTIES |publisher=Elfant Wissahickon Realtors}}
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Liberty Avenue (historical){{cite web |title=Pittsburgh's Liberty Avenue |url=https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2013/05/01/pittsburghs-liberty-avenue/ |website=Old Pittsburgh photos and stories |access-date=25 January 2018 |date=1 May 2013}}
• Dallas, Texas
• Harry Hines{{cite web |last1=Wilonsky |first1=Robert |title=Prostitutes flood back into northwest Dallas after police vice unit shuttered |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/07/24/prostitutes-flood-back-into-northwest-dallas-after-police-vice-unit-shuttered/ |website=Dallas News |access-date=27 February 2020 |language=en |date=24 July 2018}}
• Northwest Highway{{cite web |last1=Schutze |first1=Jim |title=Bare Knuckles and Bare Breasts |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/bare-knuckles-and-bare-breasts-6392461 |website=Dallas Observer |access-date=27 February 2020 |date=26 April 2001}}
• Fort Worth, Texas
• Hell's Half Acre (historic){{cite web |title=Sodom on the Trinity (Part 1): A Cold Day in Hell |url=https://hometownbyhandlebar.com/?p=3041 |website=Hometown by Handlebar |access-date=2 December 2018 |date=10 June 2017}}
• Houston, Texas
• The Bissonnet Track{{cite web |last1=Fletcher |first1=Abner |title=Full Show: Prostitution On The Bissonnet Track, And Strange Houston News |url=https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2019/05/02/331514/full-show-prostitution-on-the-bissonnet-track-and-weird-houston-news-may-2-2019/ |website=Houston Public Media |access-date=27 February 2020 |date=2 May 2019}}
• Fourth Ward – The Reservation/Happy Hollow (Historical)
• San Antonio, Texas
• Sporting District{{Cite journal |url=http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/crose07/CR-Fall2007.pdf |author=Morgan, Lael |title=The San Antonio Blue Book: Proof of a Secret Era |journal=The Compass Rose |volume=XXI |number=2 |pages=1–3 |date=Fall 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604091919/http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/crose07/CR-Fall2007.pdf |archive-date=4 June 2011 }} (historical)
• Washington, D.C.
• Murder Bay (defunct)Savage, Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape, 2009, p. 100-101; Gutheim and Lee, p. 73; Lowry, p. 61-65; Evelyn, Dickson, and Ackerman, p. 63-64.

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

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• Adelaide
• Hindley Street[http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Australia_and_Oceania/Australia/State_of_South_Australia/Adelaide-1880487/Warnings_or_Dangers-Adelaide-Hindley_Street-BR-1.html Dangers and warnings of Hindley Street, Adelaide] 2006.
• Brisbane
• Fortitude Valley{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s797373.htm |title=Brisbane's prostitute safety zones |publisher=ABC |date=3 March 2003|archive-date=11 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511173644/http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s797373.htm}}
• Kangaroo Point{{cite web |title=Select Sex Industry Statistics |url=http://www.pla.qld.gov.au/Resources/PLA/reportsPublications/documents/Select%20Sex%20Industry%20Statistics.pdf |website=www.pla.qld.gov.au/ |publisher=Prostitution Licensing Authority |access-date=30 January 2019 |date=December 2011 |archive-date=14 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314172936/http://www.pla.qld.gov.au/Resources/PLA/reportsPublications/documents/Select%20Sex%20Industry%20Statistics.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• New Farm
• Canberra
• Fyshwick
• Kalgoorlie
• Hay Street
• Melbourne
• King Street{{cite web|url=http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/catwaust/web/myfiles/substreet.htm |title=Submission on the Interim Report of the Attorney-General's Street Prostitution Advisory Group|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061221070439/http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/catwaust/web/myfiles/substreet.htm |archive-date=21 December 2006 |publisher=Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia}}
• St Kilda[http://theage.com.au/victoria/on-the-streets-of-st-kilda-police-are-cruising-to-curb-the-kerb-crawlers-20110305-1bix6.html On the streets of St Kilda, police are cruising to curb the kerb crawlers], The Age, 6 March 2011.
• Surfers Paradise
• Cavill Avenue{{cite web |title=The Most Famous Red Light Districts in Australia {{!}} Red Light Australia |url=https://redlightaustralia.com/famous-red-light-districts-australia/ |website=redlightaustralia.com |access-date=30 January 2019 |date=22 November 2017}}
• Sydney
• Kings Cross{{cite book|url=http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/working/ch5-2.html |title=A decade and a half of struggle : the prostitutes' movement |publisher=Australian Institute of Criminology |date=1991|isbn=0-642-15877-0|archive-date=19 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819123320/http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/working/ch5-2.html}}
• Darlinghurst/East Sydney}}

Prostitution and associated activities are legal.

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• Auckland
• Karangahape Road{{cite web |title=K Road Auckland (Karangahape Road) {{!}} Must see Auckland! |url=https://nomadsworld.com/k-road-auckland/ |website=Nomads – Discover Different |access-date=28 February 2020 |date=6 August 2017}}
• Papatoetoe, specifically Hunter's Corner{{cite web|url=http://www.nzpc.org.nz/lawrefor.htm |title=Prostitution Law Reform |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060703174315/http://www.nzpc.org.nz/lawrefor.htm |archive-date=3 July 2006 |publisher=New Zealand Prostitutes Collective}}
• Christchurch
• Manchester Street
• Wellington
• Vivian Street

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