Drive-in Sex Booths in Zurich Switzerland To Open Soon
To confine prostitution in one specific place, the city of Zurich in Switzerland, decided to establish sex booths or stalls in Alstetten, on the outskirts of the city.
By gathering hundreds more than the 2,000 signatures needed to call a vote, the SVP hopes to block what it sees as the injudicious use of public funds.
Plans to open the new district and end prostitution in the Sihlquai district, behind the main railway station, were scheduled for the spring of 2012.
Police and social services had opposed the idea of a referendum, arguing that a popular vote would likely prolong the lifespan of the seedy Sihlquai kerb-crawling district by at least three more months.
The so-called “performance stalls”, set to be kitted out with parking spaces and alarm buttons, would be the first of their kind in Switzerland if the project is accepted by Zurich voters. The facility would alos include an on-site counselling service for prostitutes.
The head of Zurich’s social affairs department, socialist councillor Martin Waser said he is convinced that citizens “will vote clearly in favour” of the project because the problems in Sihlquai are “well known”.
“The situation cannot continue, neither for the sake of the prostitutes nor those living in the area,” he told newspaper Tages Anzeiger.
The new red-light district can provide private accommodations for approximately 30 prostitutes and their customers.