http://www.paranoia.com/faq/prostitution/Switzerland.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)Legal Situation: Prostitution is legal, prostitutes have to be registered with authorities. Local law authorities tend to battle prostitution by banning street prostitution form certain areas, fining car drivers driving repeatedly around the same block. Brothels are legal, but brothel owners run the risk of being prosecuted as pimps.
The age of consent: 16.
Finding prostitutes: In addition to street
prostitution and call girls, there are a large number of massage
parlours and "studios"; there are pages and pages of small ads in
daily newspapers ("Blick" being the national "yellow press" one, its
ads' main focus is mostly on Zurich however), and even serious ones
like "TagesAnzeiger" (Zurich) have them. Look for the "Services"
section, either under "Massage" or "Salons".
Magazines with informations: sex magazines such as "OSA",
"Okay", "Sex-Anzeiger".
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