Over the past years many sauna venues have been closed, but some still stay open, while more massage salons keep opening. Anyway, Salamander Street in Leith is the favourite haunt for prostitutes and is considered as a unofficial RLD.Įdinburgh is well known for massage and sauna venues where you can find some girls for half an hour or an hour. Most of these arrest happen at the street and police mostly targets mostly the streetwalkers.Įdinburgh does not have a red-light district like Amsterdam. In Edinburgh, estimates from Scot-Pep suggest there are about 700 indoor sex workers – 200 in saunas, 350 independent escorts and 150 agency escorts as well as 80-100 women on the streets over a year.ģ3 women were arrested for soliciting in Edinburgh in 2010-11, and 21 the following year. It is illegal to buy sex from a person younger than 18, although the age of consent for non-commercial sex is 16. In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is legal but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes. 21 How to find Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies.