The sex trade in Switzerland: prostitution has been documented since the Middle Ages in Switzerland, but did you know that it is legal, taxable and used by an estimated 350,000 men every year? Swiss News looks at life on the game, past and present.

Swiss News › Nbr. 2007, April 2007

Author: Mirza, Faryal

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The sex trade in Switzerland: prostitution has been documented since the Middle Ages in Switzerland, but did you know that it is legal, taxable and used by an estimated 350,000 men every year? Swiss News looks at life on the game, past and present.

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The Swiss Aids Federation estimates that 14,000 women work as prostitutes in Switzerland, and about 550,000 male clients use their services at least once a year. However, given the near impossibility of calculating real figures, experts contend that the actual numbers are much higher.

Prostitution is definitely not the oldest profession in Switzerland--it only received its legal stamp of approval in 1942.

What this broadly means is that today sex can be bought and sold freel...

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