It seems that these multi-storey brothels started reappearing after the financial crisis of 2008-2009. But it's difficult to see how you can refuse such beauties, at the more higher end brothels like Felina and EvenOnce. Of course, you can reject all of them, and leave. At the end the Madam, will reappear, and you tell her which girl you want.
You then get to choose a woman, who one by one will enter the room present themselves with a her name, kiss you on the cheeks and then leave. At the top will be a Madam waiting for you, all smiles and will quickly usher you into a bar or one of the bedrooms. You then walk up some stairs of heavy velvety faux luxury carpeted stairs, in faint warm lighting. The door after a while gets opened electrically.
They have a very discrete and nondescript main door, with a small bell to ring. Possibly some went bankrupt, to re-emerge as discrete brothels. It's entirely possible that originally, they were built with the intention to be Hotels. With 30% of prostitutes in Spain said to be illegal immigrants (many coming from South America), brought into Spain through illegal human trafficking, the circumstances of many prostitutes leave them in legal limbo.īrothels have been illegal since 1956, but the vast majority of brothels are loosely disguised as whiskerías, Hotels ("Hostals"), or 'clubs' and are left to function as normal. Sex workers are not penalized, instead the pimps are the ones who are punished. Prostitution is kind of legal in Spain, the truth is that prostitution exists in a legal vacuum. In Madrid, the Red-light district is interwoven with regular streets, so it’s very accessible, whereas in Barcelona, the red-light district is a well known tourist attraction. Now a sex tourism is starting to increase even higher in Spain and it is slowly becoming one of the most popular destinations for sex tourism in the whole world. Cities like Madrid, Ibiza and Barcelona have long been major sex tourist and all night clubbing destinations of Europe.