red-light district
Seedy urban zone
A red-light district is an area of a city where prostitution and other sex-related businesses concentrate—brothels, strip clubs, adult theaters.
The name comes from the red lights traditionally displayed outside brothels: Amsterdam's red-light district is a tourist attraction.
The term often carries connotations of seediness, crime, and moral danger.
- brothelCommercial sex establishment
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- sex workPaid erotic labor
- oldest professionSex work, historically
- working girlsWomen who sell sex
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- prostitutionbrothel, brothels, bordello, bordellos, sex work
- sex tradeprostitution, sex work, sex worker, brothel, escort
- danger zonesdanger zone, danger zones, disaster zone, war zone, war zones
- slumsslum, slums, shanty, shanties, shack
red-light districtfamily neighborhood
civic center · gated community · residential suburb · upscale neighborhood · leafy suburb
red-light districtfinancial district
Commercial banking hub area
business district · Wall Street · central business district · commercial district · university district
red-light districtfamily neighborhood
residential suburb · school district · Main Street · town square · village green
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