Sex In The City: Zurich’s Prostitution 'Sex Booths' Deemed Success In Switzerland
On Sunday, the sex booths celebrated their fifth anniversary with Zurich government spokeswoman Nadeen Schuster telling USA Today they have been ‘effective in preventing violence against sex workers and human trafficking’.
Prostitution has been legal in Switzerland since the 1940s but before the booths were installed, most sex workers stayed on the city’s riverfront, with locals complaining about seeing them on street corners.
Now the wooden structures give them a safe place to work away from the centre of the city and are fitted with an alarm so the prostitutes can contact the police if they need to.
Drivers – who must be alone in their vehicle – enter along a marked route while women wait in shelters along the roadside.
Once a woman has been selected and a price has been agreed, they drive together to one of the booths.
The legal areas have lowered the amount of violent attacks on sex workers as well as cut down on illegal trafficking of prostitutes, council officials said.
In 2014, the booths were improved to include ‘plank beds’ for people who wanted to leave their cars. Like many drive-ins, motorbikes and bicycles are allowed, but those on foot aren’t. Pedestrians are told to go to another part of the city.
(METRO)
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