About

This site was started by a small editorial team who travel for work, travel for pleasure, and got tired of the same five blog posts being recycled into every “best of” listicle on the internet. The author bylines vary; the editorial standard doesn’t.

We treat the subject like any other travel writing — with research, with respect for the people involved, and without either the wink-wink tone of half the internet or the performative concern of the other half. The places we cover are legal. The people who work there are professionals. The visitors who go are adults. That’s the whole frame.

Why this exists

Every travel guide covers the same things. Restaurants, museums, walking tours, the same six photographs of the same six landmarks. That’s fine — those guides exist, they do their job. We cover the rest.

There’s a long tradition of editorial coverage of legal adult industries — think the German broadsheets writing about Reeperbahn licensing reform, or the Dutch press covering De Wallen zoning debates. We sit in that tradition. Travel intelligence, written for grown-ups, about places grown-ups go.

What makes us different

We don’t take sponsored placements. We don’t rank establishments or individuals. We don’t accept comped trips. Every guide is written from first-hand reporting, verified by the community, and updated when the situation on the ground changes.

The community is the real engine. Trip reports — short, specific, written by people who actually went — are what move a destination guide from useful to indispensable. We host them. We don’t write them.

Editorial standards

First-hand reporting only. No guide goes live without someone on the editorial team having been to the city in the last twelve months.
Legal framework first. Every city covered here operates under a clear regulatory framework. No grey zones, no guesswork.
No sensationalism. The subject is treated as the normal civic and economic activity it is in the jurisdictions we cover.
No identification. Workers, establishments and visitors are never identifiable. The guides cover districts and frameworks, not individuals.
Corrections promptly. If we get something wrong — pricing, legal detail, neighbourhood character — write to us. We update fast and we credit the correction.

Contact

For editorial questions, corrections or partnership enquiries: [email protected]

For legal matters: [email protected]

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