Auckland Sex Guide advises where to find sex , working girls , prostitution , street hookers , brothels , red-light districts , sex shops , prostitutes , erotic massage parlors , strip clubs and escorts in Auckland , New Zealand. Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand , with a population of over 1.
It is in the northern half of the North Island, on a narrow isthmus of land that joins the Northland peninsula to the rest of the North Island. Auckland holds the distinction of being the most isolated city with a population in excess of 1 million — the nearest city of such size is Sydney , Australia , 2, km 1, mi away! Prior to , indoor prostitution in New Zealand was governed by the Massage Parlours, which allowed brothels to operate in the guise of massage parlours. However, the act defined massage parlours as public places, so laws against soliciting in a public place applied to workers in parlours, and they were sometimes raided and entrapped by police posing as clients.
Workers in the parlours were also required to provide their names and addresses to the police. Advertising the sale of sex "soliciting" , running a brothel, and living off the earnings of prostitution were illegal.
These laws were changed by the Prostitution Reform Act, passed in June The decriminalisation of brothels , escort agencies and soliciting, and the substitution of a minimal regulatory model created worldwide interest; New Zealand prostitution laws are now some of the most liberal in the world. Although prior to New Zealand had several laws meant to suppress prostitution, during the last decades of the 20th century, there had been a high degree of toleration of sex work in practice.
Nevertheless, police continued to raid brothels, streets, and private residences of sex workers right up to the day before the Prostitution Reform Bill was passed by Parliament. There are no red light areas as such in New Zealand, although there are places where strip clubs and brothels tend to be concentrated.
