red light districts
Areas for prostitution
Red light districts are urban areas known for prostitution and related sex businesses—strip clubs, adult shops, brothels.
The name comes from the red lights traditionally displayed in windows to signal sexual services for sale.
Some cities formally designate such zones; others develop them informally: Amsterdam's red light district is a tourist attraction.
The term sometimes extends to any neighborhood associated with vice.
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- oldest professionSex work, historically
- brothelsEstablishments for paid sex
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
- street cornersJunctures of perpendicular roads
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- sex workstripping, pornography, massage parlors, pimping, trafficking
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- sex lawsconsent laws, sodomy laws, age of consent, statutory rape, child protection laws
red light districtsresidential suburbs
Outlying housing areas
family neighborhoods · gated communities · school zones · civic centers · town squares
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Wealthy residential districts
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