Sin City (description)

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Las Vegas, Nevada is the most popular city known as Sin City
Las Vegas, Nevada is the most popular city known as Sin City

Sin City is a nickname for an urban area (a city or part of) that caters to various vices,[citation needed] perhaps the most well known example being Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 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 gang activity. If the area is small, it is often called a red-light district, as in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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[edit] Sin Cities in the world

Cities or areas that have this reputation include:

Americas
  • Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. (gambling, prostitution; quote: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.")
  • Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Strip clubs, prositution, gambling, colleges, parties, boys town "the real Sin Cité" yea right)
  • Hickory, North Carolina, U.S. (Strip clubs, prostitution, colleges, parties, marijuana consumption.)
  • Caldwell County, Kentucky, U.S. (moonshine, aggressive tobacco spitting, crop sabotage; quote: "We've got it all here, don't come around if you ain't got cahones. From poker playin to moonshine makin, city slickers get cooked like bacon. I seen whole ripe cornfields get destroyed by tractor gangs, draggin plows over an unpaid debt. These fields are tough.")
  • Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. (various vices; quote: "Lynn Lynn the city of sin you never come out the way you went in; wine, whiskey, women, and gin; Lynn Lynn the city of sin.")[1][2]
Asia
Europe
Oceania

[edit] Former Sin Cities

Europe
  • Berlin, 1920s and early 1930s (Prostitution, numerous cabarets, decadence in general)[citation needed]
  • In 1955, Terre Haute, IN was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag. (reputation for being "wide open", with gambling and a well-developed "red light district")

[edit] References

  1. ^ History and Trivia for Lynn, Massachusetts. Hometown USA Community. A2Z Computing Services. Retrieved on 2008-03-22. “In a 1997 effort to escape association with this couplet, city solicitor Michael Barry proposed to rename the city "Ocean Park", but this initiative was withdrawn after receiving widespread ridicule (opponents came up with a new rhyme, "Ocean Park, Ocean Park, you'd better get out before it gets dark").”
  2. ^ Chenoweth, Karyn (2007-10-12). Lynn, Massachusetts S&M death raises legal conundrum. Monsters and Critics. WotR. Retrieved on 2008-03-22. “'Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin..' go the opening lines to a hundreds year-old song ...”
  3. ^ EVAT hits sin city, freelance sex appears to be on the rise. The Manila Times. The Manila Times Publishing Corp. (2003-11-04). Archived from the original on 2005-11-07. Retrieved on 2007-12-14.
  4. ^ Far East sex tourists exposed. BBC News. BBC (2003-11-04). Archived from the original on 2004-02-26. Retrieved on 2007-12-14. “Nicknamed 'Sin City,' it is the centre of the Philippines sex industry and a magnet for travellers known as 'whorists', who want to have sex with young girls.”
  5. ^ Perera, Cheryl (2007-09-26). "Sin City". Gazette Magazine 62 (2). Montreal, Canada: The Gazette. “its infamous 'Sin City'” 
  6. ^ The brothel creeper | Magazine | The Observer

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