The Red Light Review

health, fitness, sexuality, history, business · EN

The Red Light Review is a weekly investigative podcast about sex work, power, and money — past and present, around the world. Every episode is a deep-dive into one city, one era, or one notorious figure in the world's oldest profession: the prices, the venues, the workers, the customers, and the power structures that have always run alongside polite society. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR Geographic deep-dives. Bangkok go-go bars and the real math of a bar fine. Amsterdam's De Wallen window brothels. Tokyo's soaplands, kyabakura hostess clubs, and the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter of Edo Japan. Pattaya, Angeles City, Phnom Penh, Saigon, Seoul, Mumbai, Macau, Hong Kong, Tijuana, Medellín, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Indonesia. Las Vegas and Nevada's legal brothels. London from Victorian Cremorne to modern Soho. Berlin from Weimar cabaret to today's mega-clubs. Madrid, Rome, Athens, Prague, Hamburg, Zurich. Paris from the Belle Époque to Madame Claude.