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This term is used in adult entertainment venues - mainly in Asia - and defines a fee paid by a customer to allow a prostitute leaving their work before her shift ends or a fee paid to waive her contractual obligation to perform her duty during working hours - usually dancing or performing other tasks such as serving drinks. The term barfine is mostly used in agogo bars, music lounges (KTV) and massage parlors in Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. It compensates a bar for lost revenue occured during a workers shift in her absense. In the Philippines - where barfines are considered legally questionable - the term might be replaced by expressions such as early work release or special lady drink. The normal barfine fee is usually calculated on basis of 10 times the amount of one regular lady drink.

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These days it's pretty easy to find information about prostitution online. Youtube offers videos from private people as well as TV features from around the globe. The World's largest photo sharing portal Flickr.com shows plenty stills of whores online. Check out Ladies of the Night album for a collection of historic photos of the last 100 years. It includes images of Eric Burdon in German brothel separe in the 1960s.

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Curious about ancient roots of World's oldest profession? Procon Prostitution published a great timeline of historic documentation from Ancient Times through Middle Ages until today showing the course development. Did you know that in Old Greece 'Athenian lawmaker and poet Solon founded state brothels and taxed prostitutes on their earnings in the 5th century BC? The cost of sex was ... equivalent of an ordinary worker's day salary.' Most records deal with state's and government's involvement in brothel keeping and taxing. The facts suggest people in old ages were more open minded than some of today's democratic societies. Later on prostitution developed to a form of entertainment that was marked as a luxury privilege for wealthy and powerful.

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People come to Las Vegas for a lot of lusty reasons. One of them is to have sex in a legal whore house, because they heard about Nevada being the only US state to allow and regulate prostitution. However, there is no brothel in Las Vegas at all, although a lot of guys look for them. Certainly, there are escorts and exotic dancers who openly solicit for prostitution, but they are not part of legal prostitution, but operating a very risque game that may lead themselves and their customers into a jail cell sooner or later as lots of undercover cops are trying to curb this trade. To find legal Navada brothels one has to take a limousine and drive North on I95 heading for Reno. In Nevada brothels are called 'Ranch' because they are detached houses surrounded by lots of land. You have to travel far to get to them ...

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Possibly, you are interested in information about red-light districts. Most sources present one-sided, biased and wrong information about these seedy zones where prostitutes conduct business and where lonely punters find their daily fix. My new RLD blog will be presenting information about some of the most famous redlight districts in the world including international media coverage, photos and videos. This site just started out. Allow me a couple of weeks to get a spiffy design on the way and conclude my initial research into brothels and infamous street stretches.

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