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Soi Cowboy, a red-light district in Bangkok.

The Procuress by Dirck van Baburen (1622)

Fresco from the Pompeii brothel.

Étienne Jeaurat (1699-1789). "Filles de joie" being taken to the Salpêtrière 1745. Oil on canvas, Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Brothel scene; Brunswick Monogrammist, 1537; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Prostitutes on display in Yoshiwara during the Meiji Period, Japan

Women in an early San Francisco bordello in 1870

De Wallen, Amsterdam's red-light district, offers activities such as legal prostitution and is one of the main tourist attractions.

Man negotiating with a sex worker in Amsterdam's De Wallen (Red-light district).

This area of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. was known from the mid-1800s to the 1920s as "Murder Bay," home to numerous brothels. The youth on the left was a "procurer".

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Salon at the Rue des Moulins, 1894

Interior of a brothel in Naples, Italy, 1945

Albertine at the Police Doctor's Waiting Room, 1885–87 painting by the Norwegian writer and painter Christian Krohg illustrating his then very controversial novel Albertine about the life of a prostitute.

Red light district in Frankfurt am Main, with several eros centers

Van used to advertise a brothel in Vienna

A group of filles de joie face the camera in front of the Mignon Bar on a street corner in old Marseilles. Lucien Lévy (1919)

Sex workers demonstrating for better working conditions at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City.

The Client (Le Client ou Maison close), Pencil, watercolor and gouache. Jean-Louis Forain (1878).

Postcard of Yokohama brothel (1907).

Red-light district known as Klondike City, across the Klondike River from Dawson City, Yukon, circa 1898.