Entry overview: The term red light district first appeared in the United States in the 1890s, when prostitutes would place red lights in front of their windows to attract their customers. A red-light district (English for red-light district) refers to an area dominated by prostitution.
Basic Information
Chinese name: Red Light District
English name: red-light district
Interpretation: urban areas with a high concentration of pornographic venues
word origin
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the red light district first appeared in an article in the American newspaper The Sandusky Register in 1894.
Mr. Dong Leshan once introduced in the book "The Language of Marginal People", the era of developing the west in the United States. Dodge City, Kansas, is one of the wildest and wildest towns in the west, where the famous Santa Fe Railroad to California passes. Whenever the train stops here, the employees on the train always go to the brothel in the city to find a good catch-up. Considering that in the event of an emergency, the railway company can find themselves in time, these employees always hang a red light unique to railway employees at the door of the brothel. In this way, a special landscape has been formed in the local area. Any place with dense "red lights" not only indicates that it is where a brothel is located, but also proves that "prostitution" is very prosperous. Over time, the name "red light district" appeared, but the "red light district" mentioned here only refers to the area where some urban pornographic places are concentrated.
In Japan, the police station uses a red line to mark the location of the red light district on the map, so this is called the "red line" (red line) in Japan. In addition, Japan also has a saying of clearing the line, which means that this place is not protected by law.
Legal Issues
Most large and medium-sized cities have red light districts, but the laws vary widely. Not only legally, the degree of openness of the red light district, the public perception of the red light district, and the government's regulation of the red light district are very different.
De Wallen, the largest and most well-known red light district in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is also one of its main tourist destinations. The Reeperbahn is a street in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg, Germany, and is also a famous red light district. All activities here are legal and reasonably regulated by the government.
Red light districts in Thailand or other Asian cities are in a grey area and are not officially regulated. Although officials have not come forward to say this is reasonable, activity in the red light district is tolerated and accepted by the government. Activities in the red light district are not in the least regulated by legal issues.
