Brothel

[3] However, for legal or cultural reasons, establishments often describe themselves as massage parlors, bars, strip clubs, body rub parlours, studios, or by some other description.

[4] On 2 December 1949, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others.

The European Women's Lobby condemns prostitution as "an intolerable form of male violence" and supports the "Swedish model".

[14] The introduction of legal brothels in Queensland was to help improve the safety of sex workers, punters (customers of prostitution), and the community at large and reduce crime.

Although the Dumas Hotel in Butte, Montana operated legally from 1890 until 1982, brothels are currently illegal throughout the United States, except in 10 rural counties in Nevada.

In later years, sacred prostitution and similar classifications of women existed in Greece, Rome, India, China, and Japan.

These brothels catered to a predominantly male clientele, with women of all ages and young men providing sexual services (see Prostitution in ancient Greece).

In ancient Rome female slaves were forced to provide sexual services for soldiers, with brothels being located close to barracks and city walls.

Prostitutes paid high prices to the brothel keeper for the basic necessities of room and board, clothes, and toiletries.

[26] This epidemic had been brought on by Spanish and French military pillages after the return of Christopher Columbus from the newly discovered Americas.

The church and citizens alike feared that men who frequented brothels would bring the disease home and infect morally upright people.

[29] Premises suspected of being gay brothels, including the Hotel Marigny were, however, subject to frequent police raids,[30] perhaps indicating less tolerance for them from the authorities.

New China treated prostitutes for sexually transmitted diseases, provided psychological counseling, taught them work skills, and arranged legitimate jobs for them to change careers.

[51] The Yinjian teahouse (阴间茶室) refers to a male brothel that provided same-sex sexual services to men during the Edo period in Japan.

[57][58] From 1911 to 1913, the United States Department of Justice counted the numbers of prostitutes in brothels to use the data against the much-feared "White Slave Traffic".

[64] Visitors could easily find disorderly houses by opening up the local or statewide directories, such as the 1895 Travelers' Guide of Colorado.

A nineteenth-century authority describes the city of New Orleans as such: "The extent of licentiousness and prostitution here is truly appalling and doubtless without a parallel in the whole civilized world.

"[66] The average house held five to twenty working girls; some higher-end brothels also employed staff servants, musicians, and a bouncer.

The principal rooms on the first floor contained large oil paintings, Brussels carpets, red plush 'parlor furniture', étagères (a shelf for small ornaments), and numerous items of silver plate.

[69] These "five and ten-dollar parlor houses" attracted wealthy men, who used the facilities much as a gentlemen's social club,[70] where they made business and political connections, met with associates and had exquisite dinners with wine, champagne, and women.

A 1910 Kansas vice report compares the two: "A few brothels were equipped with expensive furniture and furnishings including the finest of upholstered chairs, well-done paintings, and costly rugs, while others were hovels of repulsive squalor.

Although they might be from varied classes, ethnicities, and ages, most women who began or joined brothels had a shared goal: quick money.

A large focus for madams was keeping their business transactions discreet and staying on the good side of the law, which they did by contributing money to charitable organizations, schools, and churches.

[75] Another upscale bordello was the Big Brick in Charleston, South Carolina, built and operated by Grace Peixotto, the daughter of the Rev.

A madam had to monitor the cleanliness of the brothel, including the sheets, which had to be changed several times in an evening, and a stock of wines and liquors for clientele.

A prostitute from Kansas City is recorded as saying that she is no match for the "proper" behavior and dress required for the famous Ice Palace in Chicago.

[77] Disorderly houses or any other dwelling used for purposes of selling sex or other lewd acts in the early 20th century were illegal with a few exceptions: the states of Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Mexico, and South Carolina.

Examples of such jargon are la boîte à bonbons ("the sweet box"), replacing the term "bordel militaire de campagne".

During the Second World War, women drawn from throughout the Far East were forced into sexual slavery by the occupation armies of Imperial Japan in brothels known as Ianjo.

[84][85][86] In 2010, the Philippine government stopped approving contracts that promoters use to bring Filipinas to South Korea to work near U.S. military bases.