Or perhaps it was love, for he married her even though his family despised her background and disowned him. The couple rented a one-room hovel in the Kalighat red-light district, and Maya reluctantly sold sex, but as her own boss, while her husband drove for a taxi company.
Washington Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan is legalizing the sex trade in special red-light districts and ending a ban that penalized prostitutes but not their patrons. The island's Parliament passed the law Friday following heated debate. Protesters have decried the ...
台灣紅燈區賣淫行為合法
台北台灣週五（11月4日）通過一項新法律，使紅燈區內賣淫行為合法化。內政部長江宜樺指出，娼妓在紅燈區內得到容忍。新法律結束了長達數十年的一項禁令。根據該項禁令，妓女屬於刑事犯罪分子，但皮條客卻不在此列。新法律規定，地方政府可自行確定紅燈區的界線，如在紅燈區外有賣淫活動，參與各方將被課以最高為約值1000美元的罰金，對皮條客的罰款最高可達1600美元。
Prostitution may be the world's oldest profession, but one fashion designer
is introducing a change to Amsterdam's famous window prostitutes.
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haute couture
Synonyms: high fashion, high style
disown
verb
- refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with."Lovell's rich family had disowned him because of his marriage"
red light
(rĕd'līt')
n.
A neighborhood containing many brothels.
A red-light district is a part of an urban area where there is a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, adult theaters, etc. The term originates from the red lights that were used as signs of brothels.[1]
Well known European red-light districts are De Wallen in Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany.
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