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SEX IN FRANKFURT
Red Light District of the Bahnhofsviertel
Perhaps
is because of the money, perhaps natural location, perhaps if you’re
the center of business development, why not the world’s
oldest business. Germany has a much more casual relationship with sex
than in America, or even Britain, and certain less complex than the Catholic
southern Europe. In many Germany’s big cities you’re likely
to find a somewhat subdued building not far from a train station with
red or blue lights glowing in all the windows, rather like a holiday
symbol, but here the signature of a brothel, or sex shop. In Bonn, they’ve
passed a new law charging prostitutes a parking meter tax. In Berlin,
the girls shop services just outside the tourist trap restaurants of
the Oranienburger (see Oranienburger
Clubs Berlin).
In
Frankfurt, no prostitutes in shopping windows like nautical naughty
Hamburg (see Hamburg’s
Reeperbahn) or outside the city like more
prudish Munich (see Munich’s
Best Brothel), here the sex zone takes
up nearly four blocks. Building after building a few streets from the
main rail station, the Bahnhof Quarter. Frankfurt is not historically
a tourists’ town but a businessman’s town, and with all that
business money, it’s maybe not surprising that the real estate
to serve that expense account traffic naturally grew to a substantial
breadth. Within steps of the Hauptbahnhof and a short taxi ride or a
couple of tram stops from the Frankfurt Messe convention center, the
district comes alive with people when the sky turns dark. One of the
busiest parts of the city after hours, especially when there’s
a football match out at the Commerzbank stadium (see Frankfurt
Stadium City Guide). A party might even spill out of a club into the street.
Police called to quell the disturbance. No violence, just rowdy beer
fueled testosterone exuberance.
The “red
light” district is a mix of brothels called Eros
Centers, the multi-story buildings of four or five floors with the glowing
lights, not only red lights but blue, line the streets side by side,
surrounded by night clubs with table dancing and champagne bars,
the familiar and
exotic
-
the Miami
Sauna
Club, Stars,
and America. Some of the sex houses are actually national chains, like
Leierkasten, some local spots only - Love Haus 44, some with no name,
only a sign “girls” with an arrow. No need to know the local
language. Just bring Euros. Or actually you acn wander about just to
enjoy the heady atmosphere but no window shopping, the windows are all
blacked out.
There
is no “madame” in charge, here the girls
are essentially independent contractors who rent the rooms. Wander the
halls, if the door is open the girl is available, if it’s closed,
she’s occupied. Services are negotiated individually. If more entertainment
time is your goal, the district has a number of erotic movie cabin shops,
like the vaguely clinical sounding Dr Müller’s Erotik Shop,
and regular bars and clubs as well with big screen TVs for watching sports
matches, and pool parlors upstairs at the Merkur Spielbank. The girls
working the street in Frankfurt are more huckstering for the champagne
bars, where the pop of a cork can cost as much as time in one of the
rooms above. The district is safe and really just part of the city life,
bright and colorful like a theme park of adult delights with shops and
restaurants just around the corner. Whatever pops your cork. © Bargain
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