S3-E39 - Taiwan’s Most Famous Red Light District: Taipei’s Combat Zone

“Blatant sex capital of Asia, where vice is legal and the price
is right,” was how one book described Taipei in 1969. Listen
as Taipei-based journalist David Frazier takes us through the
history of Taipei’s first foreign-oriented red light district, an
area of girlie bars and nightclubs that was, and still is, known
as the “Combat Zone.” Frazier explains how this infamous
entertainment zone formed around nearby US military
bases, the history of prostitution in modern Taiwan, and how
a bar zone became a conduit for Western culture.


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