Switzerland Sex Guide advises where to find sex , prostitution , hookers , brothels , erotic massage parlors and escorts in Switzerland. It has borders with France to the west, Italy to the south, Austria and Liechtenstein to the east and Germany to the north. Switzerland has a comprehensive offering of adult services, all legal and regulated. You can find strip clubs , brothels , Sex drive-in parks and sensual massage parlours in the big cities as well as red-light districts where window prostitutes and street prostitutes are allowed to work.
Prostitution and other erotica related activities have been documented since the medieval times in Switzerland. During the medieval times, the local community highly tolerated this industry. Although highly tolerated, the sex industry in Switzerland was running illegally until After receiving the legal stamp of approval in , the industry became legal though regulated.
With the legalization, licensed brothels started coming up in major towns of the country Zurich being on the forefront. The players in this industry started advertising their services in major newspapers in the country. Prostitution is legal, and so are brothels. The Swiss criminal code puts strict boundaries on their activities: it is forbidden to induce somebody into prostitution, to restrict the freedom of a prostitute by supervising him or her in the course of his or her activities or by exercising control over the location, time, volume or other aspects of his or her work as a prostitute art.
Cantons can also edict additional measures. The prostitution scene changed a lot with the gradual coming into force of the Free Movement of Persons Agreement, from on.
This agreement allows firms and independent workers from the European Union to work in Switzerland 90 days a year. As a result, a lot of European prostitutes started to come and work in Switzerland for short periods. This change is easily perceptible in street prostitution. Until the 's, most of the prostitutes were local, and a lot of them stayed in the business very long. You would see faces month after month, year after year, offering their services at the same place.
