List of red-light districts
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A list of world red-light districts.
[edit] Africa
[edit] Egypt
- Cairo
- Wagh el Birket (defunct)
[edit] Kenya
[edit] Morocco
[edit] South Africa
[edit] Asia
[edit] Cambodia
[edit] People's Republic of China
- Beijing
- Dashilan (defunct)[5]
- Jinyu Hutong
- Hangzhou
- Jinbi Huihuang
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai
- Simalu (also called Huileli) (pre-People's Republic)[6]
[edit] India
[edit] Indonesia
- Jakarta
- Blok M
- Keramat Tunggak(defunct)
- Jogjakarta
- Pasar Kembang
- Semarang
- Sunan Kuning
- Simpang Lima
- Surabaya
- Dolly
- Kremil
- Kembang Jepun(defunct)
[edit] Japan
[edit] South Korea
[edit] Malaysia
[edit] Pakistan
[edit] Philippines
[edit] Singapore
[edit] Thailand
- Bangkok
- Clinton Plaza (defunct)[29]
- Patpong [30]
- Sukhumvit Road Area (including Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy) [31]
- Phuket
- Soi Bang-La – Patong Beach [32]
- Pattaya
[edit] Australia and Oceania
[edit] Australia
[edit] New Zealand
- Auckland
- Christchurch
- Manchester Street [39]
- Wellington
[edit] Europe
[edit] Belgium
[edit] Czech Republic
- Prague
- Perlovka
[edit] Denmark
[edit] France
- Bordeaux
- Quartier de la gare Saint Jean : Belcier, quai de paludate
- Quartier Saint-Rémi : rue du pont de la mousque, rue courbin
- Les quinconces
- Passage Birly, rue de Ruat : massages
- Le Havre
- Cours de la République
- Lille
- Quartier Peuple Belge (Place de Gand, Rue de Courtrai, Place aux Bleuets)
- Lyon
- Quartier Mermoz
- Mantes-la-Jolie
- Quartier du Val Fourré
- Marseille
- Rue Thubaneau
- Bd du Prado
- Paris
- Bois de Boulogne
- Boulevard de Clichy
- Porte de Vincennes
- Quartier Pigalle
- Rue de la Gaité
- Rue Saint-Denis
- Rouen
- Boulevard des belges
- 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
[edit] Germany
[edit] Republic of Ireland
- Dublin
- Gropecunt Lane (defunct)
- "The Monto" (Montgomery Street) (defunct)
[edit] Italy
[edit] Malta
[edit] Netherlands
[edit] Norway
[edit] Portugal
- Lisbon
- Cais do Sodré
- Intendente
- Porto
- Trindade
[edit] Spain
[edit] Sweden
[edit] Switzerland
[edit] Turkey
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] England
- Blackburn
- King street/Clayton Street
- Bolton
- Breightmet Street/Shiffnall Street [41]
- Bradford
- Manningham Lane
- Bristol
- St.Pauls
- Stapleton Road, Easton
- Doncaster
- Netherall[42]
- Leeds
- Spencer Place, Chapeltown
- Harehills Lane, Harehills
- Leicester
- South Highfields (defunct) [43]
- London
- Gropecunt Lane (possible; defunct)[44]
- King's Cross [45]
- Piccadilly Circus (defunct)[46]
- Soho [47]
- Manchester
- Fairfield Street
- Nottingham
- Forest Fields
- Colwick Country Park
- Plymouth
- Millbay [48]
- Union Street (defunct)
- Sheffield
- Broad Lane/Shalesmoor
- Shrewsbury
- Grope Lane (possible; defunct)[49]
- Southampton
- St Mary's Street
- Swindon
- Manchester Road/Gorse Hill [50]
- Wolverhampton
- All Saints/Parkfield – [51]
[edit] Northern Ireland
[edit] Scotland
- Edinburgh
- Rose Street/Leith Walk/Coburg Street/Salamander Street (all defunct)[53]
- Glasgow
- Blythswood Square (defunct)[54]
[edit] North America
[edit] Canada
[edit] British Columbia
- Vancouver
- Downtown Eastside
- Seymour Street, Downtown
[edit] Ontario
- Windsor
- Drouillard Avenue / Ford City Neighbourhood
- Thunder Bay
- Simpson Street
- Toronto
[edit] Quebec
[edit] Mexico
- Mexico City
- Calzada de Tlalpan
- La Merced
- Sullivan Street
- Zona Rosa
- Nuevo Laredo
[edit] United States
[edit] Alaska
[edit] Arizona
[edit] California
- El Centro
- Adams Avenue
- Los Angeles
- Sunset Boulevard – Hollywood
- Western Avenue – Hollywood
- South Central Los Angeles
- San Fernando Valley
- San Francisco
- Barbary Coast (defunct)
- Tenderloin
[edit] Colorado
- Denver
- East Colfax Avenue
[edit] Florida
- Orlando
- Orange Blossom Trail (OBT)
[edit] Georgia
- Atlanta
- Metropolitan Parkway (formerly known as Stewart Avenue)
- Macon
- Broadway
- Savannah
- River Street
- Warner Robins
- Front Street
[edit] Hawaii
- Honolulu
- Hotel Street
[edit] Illinois
[edit] Indiana
- Terre Haute
- Wabash Avenue (defunct)
[edit] Iowa
- Council Bluffs
- Pierce Street (defunct)
[edit] Louisiana
- New Orleans
- Storyville (defunct)
- Bourbon Street
- Baton Rouge
- Plank Road
[edit] Maryland
[edit] Massachusetts
- Boston
- Ann Street (defunct)
- Combat Zone (defunct)
- Scollay Square (razed)
[edit] Michigan
- Detroit
- Grand Rapids
- Division Avenue
[edit] Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- Washington & Central Avenue
- St. Paul
- Payne Avenue
[edit] Montana
- Butte
- Venus Alley (defunct) pavilion n5445
[edit] Nevada
- Reno
- Fourth Street
[edit] New York
- New York City
- Hunts Point
- Tenderloin (defunct)
- Times Square (defunct)
[edit] Oklahoma
- Oklahoma City
- South Robinson Avenue (between SE 29th and 44th Streets)
[edit] Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Northern Liberties (defunct)
- Pittsburgh
- Liberty Avenue (largely defunct)
[edit] Tennessee
[edit] Texas
- Austin
- 6th Street (defunct; '60s & '70s)
- South Congress Avenue (defunct; '70s and '80s)
- Dallas
- Harry Hines
- Waco
- The Reservation (defunct)
- Houston
- Fifth Ward
- South Park (defunct)
[edit] Utah
- Salt Lake City
- Commercial Street (defunct)
[edit] Washington, DC
- Washington, D.C
- 14th Street (defunct)
- 13th-16th streets between L and M NW
- Pennsylvania Avenue (between 10th and 15th Streets) (defunct)
- Vermont Avenue, NW
[edit] South America
[edit] Brazil
[edit] Minas Gerais
[edit] Rio de Janeiro
- Vila Mimosa (defunct)
- Praça Mauá
- Avenida Atlântica, Copacabana
[edit] São Paulo
[edit] Rio Grande do Sul
- Porto Alegre
- Avenida Farrapos
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Competition Forces Commercial Sex Workers To Go Day-time. All Africa News Agency (2003). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Interview with J. V. Stevenson. The Sunday Telegraph (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ SA outcry at 'insult' to Gandhi. BBC (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Cambodia's child sex shame. BBC (2004). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Dashilan deadline. China Daily (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Remembrances of Huileli. Independent Chinese PEN Center (2004). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ World’s changing morals. The Tribune (2001). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Education for Victims - When Prostitutes Go to Jail... Sakuntala cares for their children. The Advocacy Project (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ World’s changing morals. The Tribune (2001). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Girl-trafficking hampers Aids fight. BBC (2004). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ The ironies of Kamathipura. The Hindu (2001). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Children of the red light district. Church Mission Society (2001). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ The Yoshiwara. Sweet Briar College (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Shitamachi Scenery vol. 1. SeekJapan (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Shitamachi Scenery vol. 1. SeekJapan (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Japan mulls multicultural dawn. BBC (2004). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Redlight Reckoning. Japan Inc Magazine (2004). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ The Yoshiwara. Sweet Briar College (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Daegu - Fast fashion. BBC (2002). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ 3,000 Sex Workers Protest Threat to Livelihood. The Seoul Times (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ 3,000 Sex Workers Protest Threat to Livelihood. The Seoul Times (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ 3,000 Sex Workers Protest Threat to Livelihood. The Seoul Times (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Uncertain future for Chow Kit children. The Star (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Sex Workers Come Together to Fight HIV/AIDS. You and AIDS (UN) (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - A Situation Analysis of Pakistan. Save the Children Sweden (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ World’s changing morals. The Tribune (2001). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ EVAT hits sin city, freelance sex appears to be on the rise. The Manila Times (2005). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Prostitution wave hits 'squeaky clean' Singapore. Reuters (2004). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Clinton Entertainment Plaza. Thailand.com (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Red lights flicker and dim. Shanghai Star (2001). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok. ThaiWebsites.com (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Phuket Nightlife. Frommer's (2006). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Thailand Restoring Pattaya Beach Resort. The New York Times (1996). Retrieved on July 21, 2006.
- ^ Brisbane's prostitute safety zones, ABC, 3 March 2003.
- ^ Submission on the Interim Report of the Attorney-General's Street Prostitution Advisory Group, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia.
- ^ A decade and a half of struggle : the prostitutes' movement, Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991.
- ^ A decade and a half of struggle : the prostitutes' movement, Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991.
- ^ Prostitution Law Reform, New Zealand Prostitutes Collective.
- ^ Prostitution Law Reform, New Zealand Prostitutes Collective.
- ^ Prostitution Law Reform, New Zealand Prostitutes Collective.
- ^ Councillor calls for 'soft line' on vice. Bolton Evening News (1997). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/about/chamber/default.asp?Nav=Report&ReportID=5023
- ^ Council to tackle kerb crawling. BBC (2003). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ A street by any other name...might be easier to sell. The Guardian (2004). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ A clean sweep in King's Cross. BBC (2006). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Sex, please — we're British. The Sunday Times (2005). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Sex workers say 'let us stay'. BBC (2003). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Sex workers reject red light zone. BBC (2004). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ To St Alkmund's Place. Virtual Shropshire (2006). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Action promised over prostitutes. BBC (2006). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Regenerating All Saints, Blakenhall and Parkfield. Wolverhampton City Council (2006). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ NIO pledge on prostitution laws. BBC (2006). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Local Government and Transport Committee Official Report Tuesday 1 June 2004. Scottish Parliament (2004). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Local Government and Transport Committee Official Report Tuesday 1 June 2004. Scottish Parliament (2004). Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ SWWC Boystown exhibit both mesmerizing, disturbing. Texas State University-San Marcos (2001). Retrieved on July 18, 2006.
- ^ http://www.police.nashville.org/news/news/2004/0224_relax_inn.htm
- ^ http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section=9&screen=news&news_id=36404
