red-light districts
Adult entertainment areas
Red-light districts are areas of a city where prostitution and related sex businesses concentrate—brothels, strip clubs, adult shops.
The term comes from the red lights traditionally displayed outside brothels.
Some cities officially designate such areas; others develop them informally: Amsterdam's red-light district is a tourist attraction.
The phrase can describe any neighborhood known for vice.
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- brothelsEstablishments for paid sex
- prostitutesThose who sell sex
- whorehousesEstablishments for prostitution
- streetwalkersThose selling sex publicly
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- vice industriesstrip clubs, porn, pornography, adult entertainment, sex shops
- sexual customssexual norms, sexual taboos, marriage customs, courtship, virginity
red-light districtsfamily neighborhoods
Areas suited for raising children
residential suburbs · leafy suburbs · school zones · gated communities · bedroom communities
red-light districtsbusiness districts
Areas zoned for commerce
financial districts · civic centers · school zones · industrial zones · commercial centers
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