Sin Cities Of The World

Sin City is an urban area a city or part of that caters to various vices, perhaps the most well known example being the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada, United States. These vices may be legal depending on area or illegal activities which are tolerated.

Examples of vices include sex-related services (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shops, etc.), gambling (casinos, betting shops, etc.), or drug use (alcohol, marijuana, etc. consumption), and even excessive organized crime and gang activity. If the area is known for prostitution, it is often called a red-light district, as in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Cities or areas that have this reputation include:

Africa

Marrakech (Prostitution, drinking, drugs, scams, pedophilia, sex tourism)

Asia

Dubai (Prostitution, drinking, drugs, rich, clubs, scams, a common place for those wishing to make it big to travel to)
Pattaya, Thailand (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shows, BDSM, brothels, massage parlors, cabarets, go-go bars, drugs, drinking, clubbing, muay thai boxing)
Bangkok, Thailand (prostitution, strip clubs, sex shows, scams, BDSM, brothels, massage parlors, cabarets, go-go bars, drugs, drinking, clubbing, muay thai boxing)
Tel Aviv, Israel (strip clubs, drinking, clubbing, parties)
Beirut, Lebanon (prostitution, strip clubs, cabarets, drugs, drinking, clubbing)
Manama, Bahrain (prostitution, drinking)
Macau, China (gambling, organized crime, clubbing, prostitution, drinking)

Dongguan, China (prostitution)
Angeles City, Philippines (prostitution, gambling, drinking, clubbing)

Europe

Soho, London, England, United Kingdom (prostitution)
Ibiza, Spain (clubbing, drugs)
Prague, Czech Republic (prostitution, clubbing, strip clubs, brothels)
Amsterdam, Netherlands (prostitution, brothels, strip clubs, sex shops, sex shows, marijuana consumption)
Ayia Napa, Cyprus (drugs, drinking, clubbing)
Moscow, Russia (organized crime, gangs, clubbing, drinking, drugs, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution, strip clubs)
Baku, Azerbaijan (political corruption, clubbing, drinking, bribe, police corruption, prostitution)

North America

Atlantic City, New Jersey is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey and a nationally renowned resort city for (gambling, bookmaking, drinking, prostitution, strip clubs, clubbing). In earlier decades, it was also known for organized crime, bookmaking, bootlegging, brothels, illegal gambling, speakeasies, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution.
Austin, Texas (music (especially live music), drinking, clubbing, films, street performers, bohemianism (centered around its alternative culture hence the Keep Austin Weird movement), grassroots politics, social justice, vintage automobiles, auto racing)
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, The Block (prostitution, drugs, strip clubs, organized crime)
Dallas, Texas and the entire Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (films, television, modeling, music (country/western, gangsta rap), rodeo circuit, strip clubs, tabloids, sports, easy marriage, drugs, gangs, corruption, clubbing, plastic surgery, auto racing)
Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States (Bragg Blvd, Hay Street, prostitution, drinking, drugs, gangs, violence, brothels, strip clubs)
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States (gambling, prostitution, drinking, drugs, gangs, violence, corruption, brothels, organized crime)
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (gambling, bookmaking, easy marriage, easy divorce, sex shows, strip clubs, cabarets, prostitution, clubbing, 24-hour liquor sales [as in all of Nevada];[13] quote: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."). In former days it was known also for organized crime and corruption.
Los Angeles and its Hollywood district (film, television, modeling, music, (i.e. glam metal, gangsta rap), paparazzi, plastic surgery, porn industry, publishing industries, sports, tabloids, air pollution, bank robberies, car chases, clubs, drugs, homeless people, gangs, notorious slums in the poorer areas of L.A., (major glamorous destination for many teen runaways).
New York City (films, music, modeling, tabloids, scams, television, paparazzi, formerly porn industry (Times Square), many teenage runaways, organized crime, BDSM clubs, street performers, gangsta rap.
Reno, Nevada[14] (gambling, drinking, strip clubs, clubbing, easy marriage, easy divorce, prostitution [however, prostitution is illegal in Reno and Washoe County] 24-hour liquor sales [as in all of Nevada])
Tijuana, Mexico (organized crime, gangs, drug trafficking, clubbing, drinking, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution)

South America

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (male & female prostitution, scams, notorious prison system, police corruption, political corruption, drinking, drugs, favelas, gangs, clubbing)

Australia

Kings Cross, New South Wales A notorious inner-city of Sydney. (Prostitution, brothels, gambling (illegal and legal), organized crime, gangs (to an extent), police corruption, drugs, strip clubs, squeegee men, drinking, excessive violence.)

Former Sin Cities

Asia

Shanghai, China, 1920s and 1930s.(organized crime, opium dens, gambling, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution)

Europe

Berlin, Weimar Republic - 1920s and early 1930s (Prostitution, numerous cabarets, decadence in general)

North America

New York City in the mid to late 19th Century (prostitution, brothels, illegal gambling, notorious slums, pickpocketing, police corruption, political corruption, drugs, gangs, organized crime), Times Square from the mid-1960s until circa 1990 (prostitution, pornography, go-go bars, sex shops, sex shows, squeegee men, strip clubs, clubbing, drugs, organized crime)
New Orleans from 1897 through 1917, Storyville district (prostitution, brothels, gambling, and speakeasies)
Chicago in the 1920s to 1930s (prostitution, bootlegging, cabarets, speakeasies, illegal gambling, bank robberies, police corruption, political corruption, organized crime, and gang activity)
Covington, Kentucky and Newport, Kentucky (brothels, gambling, organized crime)
Utica, New York in the 1930s through the 1950s for the extent of its corruption and control from political machines, presence of organized crime.
Galveston, Texas in the 1920s to 1957 (prostitution, organized crime, gambling, speakeasies, drinking, political corruption)
Montreal, which earned a reputation for vice through American tourists fleeing the prohibition laws.[19]
In 1955, Terre Haute, Indiana was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag. (reputation for being "wide open", with gambling and a well-developed "red light district"). Now the federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.
In the 1980-1990s Michigan City, Indiana was considered Sin City, with the proliferation of massage parlors