The Red Light Review
Sex work, power, and money — past and present, around the world.
A geographic tour of how prostitution actually works: specific prices, specific places, specific stories. Bangkok bar fines and Amsterdam windows. Pompeii graffiti and Edo Yoshiwara. Storyville, Reeperbahn, Belle Époque Paris. Researched like journalism, told like true crime. New episode every Wednesday. Explicit. 18+.
Episodes
Every region. Every era. The details polite history leaves out.
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About the show
The Red Light Review is an investigative-journalism podcast about sex work, power, and money. The show takes a geographic tour of how the industry actually operates — the specific prices, specific places, and specific stories that polite history leaves out — alongside deep dives into figures like Jeffrey Epstein, Heidi Fleiss, and Madame Claude.
Episodes are researched against primary documents, court records, academic monographs, and on-the-ground reporting. No erotica. No moralizing. Just the facts of a trillion-dollar industry that runs through every city on earth.
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