Legalised brothels and drug raves in parks have sparked a political war of words in Manchester. |
Business leaders are demanding urgent action to move prostitutes off the city's streets and into regulated brothels and massage parlours. |
Lautrec lived in the Montmartre section, the nightlife quarter of cabarets, cafes, restaurants, sleazy dance halls and brothels. |
Some of them endure the most horrific working conditions in brothels and massage parlours. |
On the back of this agitation, the new law entrenched police powers to close down brothels and punish soliciting. |
The description of being drunk on too much wine and going into brothels made me think how little modern-day life has changed. |