Prostitution in Switzerland is legal and regulated; it has been legal since 1942. Trafficking, forcing people into prostitution and most forms of pimping are illegal. Licensed brothels, typically with a reception and leading to several studio apartments, are available. One estimate puts the number of street sex workers in Zurich at 5,000.
UNAIDS estimate there to be 20,000 prostitutes in the country. The majority are foreigners from the Americas, Central Europe or the Far East. In recent years...