Clientele

There are many circumstances that may lead to someone visiting a brothel. Some clients may be looking for a more personal or physically intimate interaction than they might find with a street prostitute while some may be seeking something they would be ashamed to ask of a long term partner. Some clients of indoor sex workers may also be regular visitors to the same sex worker or establishment. For legal brothels, some of the clients are sex tourists, visitors from countries where brothels or sex work are not legal. Historically, the state has not always played a role in helping protect legal brothel employees from dangers they might face from their clients.