Babylon.
2nd millennium BC. e.
Babylon is considered the ancestor of prostitution, that's why for centuries preserved the image of ' whore of Babylon '. Herodotus described the local customs: ... Each vavilonyanka was required once in a lifetime in the church to surrender. Payment can be made arbitrarily small '. Ritual prostitution was later extended in all the ancient civilizations. 
Sodom and Gomorrah.
2nd millennium BC. e.
The very names of the cities destroyed by God for sin, have become the symbol of depravity and sexual perversion. Also in the Old Testament contains a mention of the name and the first ever ' commercial ' prostitute - a sort of Ruth (or Rahab ) from the city of Jericho. She became famous for the fact that hid in his house two spies from the army of Joshua, for which the destruction of her city was spared.
Rome.
I century AD. e.
To learn how to look like a Roman brothel -' lupanar ', can be seen in the ruins at Pompeii - it was a huge building with many rooms. When the prostitute 's daughter became engaged, even senators, Tiberius forbade the patrician women to take money for sex. It does not help, and soon the wife of Emperor Claudius, Messalina, was to take men ' lupanare '.
Bordeaux.
XI century.
Bordeaux - is the capital of Aquitaine, the most fun for the whole country during the Middle Ages. Count Guillaume VII was known as 'the first humorist and troubadour '. He wrote Pierre Daninos, built a special ' Monastery ' to prostitutes, the hierarchy is a hierarchy of ordinary monasteries reminiscent of the era. Not surprisingly, Aquitaine, and soon fell in love with the heretics, the Cathars, who preached a very loose morals.
Venice.
XVII century.
Venice - the birthplace of European carnival, during which nothing seemed too shameful, too daring, too reckless, too lewd. Carnival masks, once complained to one of the Doges, made the whole city into one big brothel. It was in Venice, Giacomo Casanova was born - a man who made his name synonymous with debauchery.
Calcutta.
XIX century.
'City of the Goddess Kali ' and the entire capital of British India became a huge British Victorian brothel, where there were no forbidden desires. The officers were particularly fond of bayadere - prostitutes and dancers. It was popularized in the English and European antique treatise ' Vatsyana Kama Sutra '.
Rio de Janeiro.
The beginning of the twentieth century.
White pants, cheap drinks, hot beaches, where cocaine is also available, as well as women. While in the Old World blazed world wars and revolutions, in Rio de Janeiro reigned ' golden age ' of pleasure - flocked here all millionaires and Hollywood stars. Today, the memory of the original splendor of Rio was a carnival, which attracts transvestites from around the world.
Moscow.
1980-1990 -s.
Signs of the times: the song ' confused, confused, confused - moth, well, who is to blame. ',' Night butterflies ' in the headlights in the Tver and Moscow as the glory of the most coveted and cheap city for sex tourists. It could be anything but a survey conducted in 1989 among high school students showed that career currency prostitute dreams of every other schoolgirl. Today, the glory has faded in Moscow.
Amsterdam.
The end of the twentieth century.
Already in the XVIII century in the Netherlands appeared philosophy ' libertinism ', under which a free man should not commit any moral social norms. So it is not surprising that it became a city of Amsterdam - the cradle of European sexual revolution of the twentieth century: it was the first to legalize soft drugs, prostitution, same-sex marriage.
Bangkok.
XXI Century.
The capital of Thailand, a modern mecca of sex tourism. The widest choice of services and partners: there are boys and girls of all ages, girls, converted in the boys, and boys, is not yet converted to the girls. Also, as they say, there are sex robots - not without reason that the Thai capital called Disneyland for adults. Today, according to the UN, in Bangkok there are about a million sex workers.
