Talk:Tag:amenity=brothel

So, what's the icon? We have plenty of brothels in Edinburgh, but signed 'Sauna'. I would rather tourists knew what they really were [jamesks: 24/04/2010]

To attract more sex tourists or to have them avoid the 'Sauna's? --Skippern 09:03, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I assume people who want this service will know about it, but for tourists who come from places where 'sauna' means sauna, it can be confusing to see shop signs on main streets advertising themselves as saunas, but actually being brothels. Jamesks 09:45, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

distinguishing male and female prostitution

How can you tell whether the prostitutes are male or female, other than by statistics? Maybe we foresee ways to tag even more different gender identities? —Dieterdreist (talk) 13:03, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Subtags

Another contributor to OSM once created these subtags for amenity=brothel. With his permission I'll paste them here for documentation and discussion purposes:

• brothel:club=yes club with clear signs, usually sells expensive drinks, customers wear normal clothes
• brothel:saunaclub=yes brothel offering a sauna, where customers are required or at least allowed to wear a robe or towel
• brothel:flat_rate=yes events flat rate clubs, every day [yes] or on special days [events]
• brothel:prepaid_tokens Clubs where entrance fee includes o number of tokens spendable for sexual services
• brothel:gangbang=yes events venues offering gangbangs, every day [yes] or on special days [events]
• brothel:eros_center=yes RLD, laufhaus, window type brothels
• brothel:window=yes in use, same meaning as brothel:eros_center=yes
• brothel:contact_bar=yes similar to club, but looks more like a cafe than a night club, and the affiliation beetween girls and management is weaker. For normal bars where it is possible to meet the occasional girl use cafè + brothel:contact_bar=yes)
• brothel:stripclub=yes For venues which mainly offer strip shows, but where at least some girls also offer sexual services
• brothel:apartment=yes discrete places, with little or no visible signs. Can range from a one-room apartment to a whole house.
• brothel:swingerclub=yes events swinger club with the presence of hired girls, either every day [yes] or on special days [events]
• brothel:massage_parlour=yes massage center which also offers sexual services
• brothel:escort_services=yes venue offering outcall services
• brothel:street_prostitution=yes used only for somewhat permanent places, like designated areas, possibly equipped with support infrastructure
• brothel:fetish_club=yes BDSM studios and the like

--Kubster (talk) 20:48, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Similar tags: add "massage=erotic"

There's plenty of such "massage salons", e.g. in Russia. If you know a better way to tag them, please share it.