Hamburg’s Red Light District: St. Pauli

Location: Hamburg, Germany

Published: The Washington Post

 Girls! Girls! . . . Shopping! In Hamburg’s St. Pauli neighborhood, one of the biggest red-light districts in Europe, the call for adult entertainment is inescapable. Yet German city dwellers and in-the-know tourists ditch the racy main drag for surrounding pockets where the boutiques, restaurants and night life are edgy, not illicit.