In street prostitution, the prostitute solicits customers while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, usually dressed in skimpy, suggestive clothing. Often the prostitute (commonly called a "hooker" or "street hooker" to distinguish them from other sex workers) appears to mind his or her own business and waits for the customer to initiate contact. The act is performed in the customer's car or in a nearby alley or rented room (motels that service prostitutes commonly rent rooms by the half or full hour). This type of sex work offers the most freedom while it can sometimes be the least ...

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Street prostitution, Street prostitution - Soliciting, Street prostitution - Differences from other forms of prostitution, Street prostitution - Prison Education, Street prostitution - Pimps, Street prostitution - Prostitute subculture, Street prostitution - Street Prostitution Worldwide

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Prostitution, Prostitution - Overview and definitions, Prostitution - Types of prostitution, Prostitution - Street prostitution, Prostitution - Escort/Out-call Prostitution, Prostitution - Socio-economic and legal status of prostitution, Prostitution - Legality of selling sex, Prostitution - Advertising prostitution, Prostitution - Regulated prostitution, Prostitution - Prostitution of children, Prostitution - Prostitution and illegal immigration, Prostitution - Sex tourism, Prostitution - Violence against prostitutes, Prostitution - Human or sex trafficking, Prostitution - Medical situation, Prostitution - How common is prostitution?, Prostitution - Politics, Prostitution - Legal issues, Prostitution - Feminism, Prostitution - History

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Prostitution - Legal issues. Roughly speaking, the possible attitudes are: abolition: "prostitution should be made to disappear" "prostitution is immoral and prostitutes and their clients should be prosecuted": the prevailing attitude in much of the United States and Muslim countries; "prostitution is a sad reality of exploitation of the prostitutes, especially women, but prostitutes should not be criminalized", the current situation in Turkey. "the clients of prosti ...

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Prostitution, Prostitution - Overview and definitions, Prostitution - Types of prostitution, Prostitution - Street prostitution, Prostitution - Escort/Out-call Prostitution, Prostitution - Socio-economic and legal status of prostitution, Prostitution - Legality of selling sex, Prostitution - Advertising prostitution, Prostitution - Regulated prostitution, Prostitution - Prostitution of children, Prostitution - Prostitution and illegal immigration, Prostitution - Sex tourism, Prostitution - Violence against prostitutes, Prostitution - Human or sex trafficking, Prostitution - Medical situation, Prostitution - How common is prostitution?, Prostitution - Politics, Prostitution - Legal issues, Prostitution - Feminism, Prostitution - History

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Prostitution is the sale of sexual services, such as oral sex or sexual intercourse, for money. A person selling sexual services is a prostitute, a type of sex worker. In a more general sense of the word, anyone selling his/her services for a cause thought to be unworthy can be described as prostituting him/herself. In the UK a prostitute is any individual, "who allows his/her body to be used for lewd purposes in return for payment". Prostitution - Overview and definitions. While prostitutes and thei ...

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• Prostitution - Overview and definitions
• Prostitution - Types of prostitution
• Prostitution - Street prostitution
• Prostitution - Escort/Out-call Prostitution
• Prostitution - Socio-economic and legal status of prostitution
• Prostitution - Legality of selling sex
• Prostitution - Advertising prostitution
• Prostitution - Regulated prostitution
• Prostitution - Prostitution of children
• Prostitution - Prostitution and illegal immigration
• Prostitution - Sex tourism
• Prostitution - Violence against prostitutes
• Prostitution - Human or sex trafficking
• Prostitution - Medical situation
• Prostitution - How common is prostitution?
• Prostitution - Politics
• Prostitution - Legal issues
• Prostitution - Feminism
• Prostitution - History

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Bruno S. was spotted by director Werner Herzog in the documentary Bruno der Schwarze - Es blies ein Jäger wohl in sein Horn (1970). Herzog promptly cast Bruno — an improvisational street musician with no experience of acting — as his lead actor in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974). Perhaps only Herzog could have seen the untapped potential of Bruno S. — the unwanted, uneducated son of a prostitute who had previously spent m ...

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A call girl is a prostitute who is not visible to the general public, like a street walker, and who does not usually belong to an institution like a brothel. One must summon her, usually by calling a telephone number—hence the name call girl. Often, call girls advertise their services in small ads in magazines, although an intermediary such as an escort agency, pimp or a pander may be involved. Call girls can work either "incall," where the client comes to th ...

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• Call girl - Non-sex work
• Call girl - Call girls and celebrities
• Call girl - City tours
• Call girl - Internet
• Call girl - Sting operations
• Call girl - Public perception of call girls

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The Optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that the prostitution of children or child prostitution is the practice whereby a child is used by others for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any other form of consideration (Article 2(b)). The remuneration or other consideration ...

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• Prostitution of children - Terminology
• Prostitution of children - A note on the subject of gender
• Prostitution of children - Causes and Context
• Prostitution of children - Impact on child victims
• Prostitution of children - Prohibition
• Prostitution of children - Extent
• Prostitution of children - Sources

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The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. It is often defined as the years from 1837 to 1901, when Queen Victoria reigned, though many historians believe that the passage of the Reform Act 1832 marks the true inception of a new cultural era. The Victorian era was preceded by the Regency era and came before the Edwardian period. Victorian era - Politics. The period is ostensibly characterized as a long period of peace ...

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• Victorian era - Events
• Victorian era - Science technology and engineering
• Victorian era - Prostitution
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Child labor or labour is the term for the employment of children. The term can have a connotation of systematic exploitation of children for their labor, with little compensation nor consideration for their personal development, safety, health, and future years prospects. In some countries, it is considered inappropriate or exploitative if a child below a certain age works, except for some household chores and of course school work. An employer is often not allowed to hire a child below a cer ...

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42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square. It is also the name of the region of the theater district (and, at times, the red-light district) near that intersection. 42nd Street has held a special place in New York lingo since at least the turn of the twentieth century. The Lincoln Highway, conceived in 1913 as America's first transcontinental highway, used the portion of 42nd Street west of Times Squar ...

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• 42nd Street Manhattan - History
• 42nd Street Manhattan - Recent changes
• 42nd Street Manhattan - Public transit
• 42nd Street Manhattan - Places along 42nd Street
• 42nd Street Manhattan - Intersections from east to west

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Prostitution outside licensed brothels is a misdemeanor in Nevada. The big casino towns Reno and Las Vegas have tried to attain a family-friendly image by cracking down on the once-rampant street prostitution. Prostitutes continue to work in casinos, where they wait in bars and attempt to make contact with single males. Escort services offering sexual services are ubiquitous, apparently, with about 140 ...

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Prostitution in Nevada, Prostitution in Nevada - Legal situation, Prostitution in Nevada - The legal brothels, Prostitution in Nevada - Illegal prostitution, Prostitution in Nevada - History, Prostitution in Nevada - Politics, Prostitution in Nevada - Museum

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Children are often pushed by social structures and individual agents into situations in which adults take advantage of their vulnerability and sexually exploit and abuse them. An all too common example of structure and agency combining to force a child into commercial sex is where the prostitution of a child follows on from prior sexual abuse, most likely in their own home. The prostitution of children is usually conducted in particular environments, such as from brothels, or bars and clubs, or homes, or particular streets and areas ( ...

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Prostitution of children, Prostitution of children - Terminology, Prostitution of children - A note on the subject of gender, Prostitution of children - Causes and Context, Prostitution of children - Impact on child victims, Prostitution of children - Prohibition, Prostitution of children - Extent, Prostitution of children - Sources

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The street is lined with many restaurants, discos and probably hundreds of bars. There are also strip clubs, sex shops, brothels, a sex museum and the like. The Operettenhaus, a musical-theatre, is also located at the Reeperbahn. It played Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats for many years and now Mamma Mia!, an ABBA-musical. There are other theatres at the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli Theater, Imperial ...

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Reeperbahn, Reeperbahn - Name, Reeperbahn - The street and its side streets, Reeperbahn - Beatles, Reeperbahn - Movies songs etc., Reeperbahn - Pubs Discotheques Shops

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The male hustler may solicit clients on the street (like pre-1990's Times Square in New York, Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles or the Porte Dauphine in Paris), or in another public space (like a bus terminal, park or rest stop), in a bar (such as the former gay hustler bars Rounds in New York or Numbers in Los Angeles, or go-go bars in Thailand and the Philippines), a dance club, through print advertisements (such as "massage therapist" ads) or -- in recent years -- through the Internet (such as "students seeking generous ...

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Male prostitute, Male prostitute - Male prostitution, Male prostitute - The hustler in popular culture, Male prostitute - Books on hustling, Male prostitute - The hustler in literature, Male prostitute - The hustler in theater, Male prostitute - The hustler in cinema, Male prostitute - Films with a hustler as a main character, Male prostitute - Other films that include hustlers, Male prostitute - Documentary films, Male prostitute - The hustler in photography, Male prostitute - People who have engaged in male prostitution

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The popular 1944 movie Große Freiheit Nr. 7 tells the story of a singer (played by Hans Albers) who works in a Reeperbahn club and falls in love with a girl played by Ilse Werner. Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann played in the 1954 movie Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins ("On the Reeperbahn at 12:30 am"). The title song, sung by Albers, is still popular to this day and can often be heard in Saint Pauli. "Reeperbahn" is also the name of a Swedish 80's band, and a song by Tom Waits. It is also men ...

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Reeperbahn, Reeperbahn - Name, Reeperbahn - The street and its side streets, Reeperbahn - Beatles, Reeperbahn - Movies songs etc., Reeperbahn - Pubs Discotheques Shops

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Despite the position of the law, prostitutes are often treated as quasi-criminals by the Ministry of Public Security. Chinese police conduct regular patrols of public spaces, often with the support of mass-line organisations, using a strong presence as a deterrence against prostitution. Because lower tier prostitutes work the streets, they are more likely to be apprehended. Arrests are also more likely to be female sellers of sex than male buyers of sex. The overwhelming majority and men and women who are apprehended are released with a caution and fine.See also:

Prostitution in the People's Republic of China, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Prostitution during the Maoist era, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Prostitution after 1978, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Types and venues, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Legal responses, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Prostitution law, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Party disciplinary measures, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Policing, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - The question of legalisation, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Prostitution in the media, Prostitution in the People's Republic of China - Notes and references

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In 1851 the Great Exhibition (the first World's Fair) was held in The Crystal Palace, with great success and international attention. In 1888, the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper murdered and mutilated prostitutes on the streets of London, leading to world-wide press coverage and hysteria. Newspapers used the deaths to bring greater focus on the plight of the unemployed and to attack police and political leaders. The killer was never caught, and the affair contribu ...

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Victorian era, Victorian era - Politics, Victorian era - Events, Victorian era - Science technology and engineering, Victorian era - Prostitution, Victorian era - Sources and further reading

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Using money from his recently deceased father's inheritance, Cream, then aged forty-one, went to Britain, arriving in Liverpool on October 1, 1891. He went to London and settled down in Lambeth. Victorian England was the centre of the vast and wealthy British Empire, but in places such as Lambeth there was poverty, petty crime and prostitution. On October 13 that year, Ellen "Nellie" Donworth, a 19-year-old prostitute, went out for a few drinks with Cream. She was severely ill ...

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Thomas Neill Cream, Thomas Neill Cream - Early life, Thomas Neill Cream - Chicago conviction, Thomas Neill Cream - Gaslit streets of London, Thomas Neill Cream - Capture, Thomas Neill Cream - I am Jack...

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The Soho area has been at the heart of Britain's sex industry for at least 50 years. In the 1970s, in an area stretching from Chinatown along Wardour Street, and up Old Compton Street, there were over 250 unlicensed sex shops, cinemas, clip joints and illegal bars, a number of brothels and many freelance prostitutes either soliciting on the street or offering their services from staircases with doors open to the street. The Metropolitan Police Vice squad at this time suffered from several corrupt police officers involved w ...

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Soho, Soho - History, Soho - Bohemian Soho, Soho - Theatre and film industry, Soho - Soho and the sex industry, Soho - Notable places in Soho, Soho - Nearest places, Soho - Nearest tube stations, Soho - Major streets in or bordering Soho

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The number and names of the Ripper's victims are the subject of much debate, but the most accepted list is referred to as the "canonical five." It includes the following five prostitutes (or presumed prostitute in Eddowes' case) in the East End of London: Mary Ann Nichols, (maiden name Mary Ann Walker, nicknamed "Polly"), born on August 26, 1845, and killed on Friday, August 31, 1888. Annie Chapman, (maiden name Eliza Ann Smith, nicknamed "Dark Annie"), born in September 1841 and killed on Saturday, Septem ...

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Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper - Victims, Jack the Ripper - Possible victims, Jack the Ripper - Goulston Street graffiti, Jack the Ripper - The Ripper letters, Jack the Ripper - Investigation, Jack the Ripper - Media, Jack the Ripper - Suspects, Jack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper in popular culture

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