Copenhagen 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 Copenhagen , Denmark. This "friendly old girl of a town" is big enough to be a metropolis with shopping, culture and nightlife par excellence, yet still small enough to be intimate, safe and easy to navigate.
Prior to , a person was permitted to engage in sex work only if prostitution was not his or her main source of income. Prostitution was then fully decriminalized on 17 March when changes were made in the penal code Straffeloven ; in practical terms, prostitution had been tolerated for many years prior to the change in legal status. Both selling and buying sexual services are legal, but activities such as operating brothels and pimping are illegal.
Also, the age of consent in Denmark is 15 years, but is 18 years for anyone wishing to undertake or purchase sex work. Selling and purchasing sex is legal in Denmark and a spokesman for the ruling Venstre party, said the government has no current plans to change the prostitution laws.
Like many other European cities, many sex workers in Copenhagen now use internet-based advertisements for in-call and out-call services. According to the most recent figures of the Danish National Centre for Social Research, published in , there are around 3, sex workers in Denmark, including around street prostitutes , the majority of whom are foreign. Every sixth man in Denmark has purchased sex and the more than bordellos in the country turns over 1.
A little note on various nationalities, though. A lot of girls are of course Danish, but anyone advertised as even remotely brown in color will generally be African with a few Brazilians among them. First hour usually goes for kr. Following hours are kr.
