Sin City (description)
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For other uses, see Sin City (disambiguation).
Sin City is an urban area (a city or part of) that caters to various vices, perhaps the most well known example being the Las Vegas metropolitan area, USA. These vices may be legal (depending on area) or illegal activities which are tolerated.
Examples of vices include sex-related services (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shops, etc), gambling (casinos, betting shops, etc), or drug use (alcohol, marijuana, etc. consumption), and even excessive organized crime and gang activity. If the area is known for prostitution, it is often called a red-light district, as in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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[edit] Sin Cities in the world
Cities or areas that have this reputation include:
- Pattaya, Thailand (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shows, BDSM, brothels, massage parlors, cabarets, go-go bars, drugs, drinking, clubbing, muay thai boxing)
- Bangkok, Thailand (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shows, BDSM, brothels, massage parlors, cabarets, go-go bars, drugs, drinking, clubbing, muay thai boxing)
- Macau, China (gambling, organized crime, clubbing, prostitution, drinking)[1][2]
- Soho, London, England, United Kingdom (prostitution)[3]
- Ibiza, Spain (clubbing, drugs)
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (prostitution, brothels, strip clubs, sex shops, sex shows, marijuana consumption)
- Hamburg, Germany (prostitution, brothels, BDSM, strip clubs, sex shops)
- Ayia Napa, Cyprus (drugs, drinking, clubbing) [4][5]
- Moscow, Russia (Organized crime, gangs, clubbing, drinking, drugs, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution, strip clubs)
- Atlantic City, New Jersey is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey and a nationally renowned resort city for (gambling, bookmaking, drinking, prostitution, strip clubs, clubbing). The old days, it was also known for organized crime, bookmaking, bootlegging, brothels, illegal gambling, speakeasies, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution.
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, The Block (prostitution, drugs, strip clubs, organized crime)
- Lynn, Massachusetts, United States (gambling, prostitution, drinking, drugs, gangs, violence, corruption, brothels, organized crime)
- Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (gambling, bookmaking, easy marriage, easy divorce, sex shows, strip clubs, cabarets, prostitution, (However, prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas and Clark County), clubbing, 24-hour liquor sales (as in all of Nevada); quote: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."). In former days it was known also for organized crime and corruption.
- Los Angeles and neighboring Hollywood (film, television, modeling, music, (i.e. gangsta rap), paparazzi, plastic surgery, porn industry, publishing industries, sports, tabloids, air pollution, bank robberies, car chases, clubs, drugs, homeless people, gangs, notorious slums in the poorer areas of L.A., (major glamorous destination for many teen runaways).
- New York City (films, music, modeling, tabloids, television, paparazzi, formerly porn industry (Times Square), many teenage runaways, organized crime, BDSM clubs, street performers, gangsta rap.
- Reno, Nevada (gambling, drinking, strip clubs, clubbing, easy marriage, easy divorce, prostitution, (However, prostitution is illegal in Reno and Washoe County), 24-hour liquor sales, as in all of Nevada.
- San Francisco most liberal, pro-homosexual city, no military recruitment facilities but the only U.S. city to feature a statue of Lenin.
- Tijuana, Mexico (Organized crime, gangs, drug trafficking, clubbing, drinking, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution)
- Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia (prostitution, drugs, strip clubs, sex shops, alcohol, clubbing)
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (male & female prostitution, notorious prison system, police corruption, political corruption, drinking, drugs, favelas, gangs, clubbing)
[edit] Former Sin Cities
- Asia
- Shanghai, China, 1920s and 1930s.[6] (organized crime, opium dens, gambling, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution)
- Europe
- Berlin, Weimar Republic - 1920s and early 1930s (Prostitution, numerous cabarets, decadence in general)
- North America
- New York City in the mid to late 19th Century (prostitution, brothels, illegal gambling, notorious slums, pickpocketing, police corruption, political corruption, drugs, gangs, organized crime), Times Square from the mid-1960s until circa 1990 (prostitution, pornography, go-go bars, sex shops, sex shows, squeegee men, strip clubs, clubbing, drugs, organized crime)
- New Orleans from 1897 through 1917, Storyville district (prostitution, brothels, gambling, and speakeasies)
- Chicago in the 1920s to 1930s (prostitution, bootlegging, cabarets, speakeasies, illegal gambling, bank robberies, police corruption, organized crime, and gang activity)
- Galveston, Texas in the 1920s to 1957 (prostitution, organized crime, gambling, speakeasies, drinking, political corruption)
- Montreal, which earned a reputation for vice through American tourists fleeing the prohibition laws. [7]
- In 1955, Terre Haute, IN was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag. (reputation for being "wide open", with gambling and a well-developed "red light district"). Now the federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.
- In the 1980-1990s Michigan City, IN was considered Sin City, with the proliferation of massage parlors
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Far East sex tourists exposed". BBC News (BBC). 2003-11-04. Archived from the original on 2004-02-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20040226212040/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3238033.stm. Retrieved 2007-12-14. "Nicknamed 'Sin City,' it is the centre of the Philippines sex industry and a magnet for travellers known as 'whorists', who want to have sex with young girls."
- ^ Perera, Cheryl (2007-09-26). "Sin City" ([dead link] – Scholar search). Gazette Magazine (Montreal, Canada: The Gazette) 62 (2). Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071104202812/http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/gazette/vol69no2/sin_e.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-02. "its infamous 'Sin City'"
- ^ Horsley, Sebastian (2004-09-19). "The brothel creeper". The Guardian (London). http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1306267,00.html. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ High Beam
- ^ "CBC-TV - Legendary Sin Cities - Shanghai". http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/sincities/shanghai.html.[dead link]
- ^ Montreal’s scandals in mayoral race revive Sin City moniker
