RED LIGHT DISTRICT
Indonesia's Sin City Skirts Shutdown Plans
We were standing at the entrance to Dolly, Southeast Asia's largest red-light district. It's a sprawling complex of colorfully named brothels in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, and this was supposed to be its last night of business
A Visit to One of Germany's All-You-Can-Fuck Brothels
The King George Brothel in Berlin opens at 4 PM, Monday through Sunday, excluding the Christmas holidays. For $135, you can stay there until dawn, drinking and fucking as much as you can handle.
The Netherlands Cheese Is Bigger Than Koffee Shops and the Red Light District
The Netherlands have a red light district where you can simultaneously witness the rapid deterioration of a woman’s self-worth AND a man’s complete lack of standards. There's also “koffee shops” that serve endless varieties of ways to get fucked up...
The Last Peep Show in Amsterdam
The disappearance of peep shows is just another step in a gradual cleanup of the city's Red Light District.
Sex Workers to Mexican Government: Stop Screwing with Us
Inflation has caused Mexico’s minimum wage to decrease over the years, and many of the country’s citizens have turned to the sex trade.
A Bizarre Night in Thailand
Producer Carrie Ching traveled to Thailand in 2004 to interview expat Vietnam War veterans for a story about the upcoming Bush-Kerry presidential election. The story took her to the country's raunchiest neighborhood during Thailand's New Year festival...
What It's Really Like to Be an Amsterdam Prostitute
Yesterday, VICE ran an interview with a guy who blogs about sex with Amsterdam's prostitutes. He made it out like the city's sex workers are pulling in hundreds of dollars...
The Burned and Bloodied Sex Workers of South Mumbai
An estimated 100,000 sex workers currently earn a living working in the brothels of South Mumbai’s red-light districts. Most of them are not there voluntarily, but, rather, have been sold into sex work, sometimes by a relative or trusted family friend...