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Given that prostitution often claims to be the oldest game in town, it's surprising that there are no brothels in this list.


I suspect that's because pretty much every country/civilization in the past 2,000 years at some point or another has banned prostitution as a matter of law/force.


Things changed a bit since Babylon days, about 3,000 years ago.


Even if there were a continuous prostitution enterprise operating over a sufficient timeline (which is not entirely implausible) legal and social acceptance issues would make it unlikely to be a continuous fixed location (brothel) or even a continuous overt business organization.


Is "Enterprise rental" some sort of auto-text substitution error?


Well, it's not what I intended, so probably. Fixed.




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