A seedy part of Singapore was thrown into the spotlight recently.
This was after videos emerged on Facebook showing the Singapore police conducting raids on illegal brothels in Rowell Road, located in the Jalan Besar district where popular supper place Swee Choon Tim Sum is also located at.
Together with Desker Road beside it, these two lanes are infamous for being part of Singapore’s red-light districts — the others being Geylang and Changi Village.
And the main reason for the perceived pronounced deviance is due to the brothels in Desker Road and Rowell Road housing transgender prostitutes.
How did they come to be?
However, to understand how and why transgender prostitutes end up in Desker Road and Rowell Road is not easy.
Attempts to trace the beginnings of the sex trade in this particular district based on publicly-available information online has proved futile.
Other than the fact that Desker and Rowell were real people, the oft-repeated fact is simply that the Desker Road area used to house Singapore’s first and largest slaughter house and butchery in the 1860s.
This, naturally, explains nothing — although it is literally a meat trade in the purest form.
More at https://www.prolificcrap.com/forum/...d-rowell-road-home-to-transgender-prostitutes
This was after videos emerged on Facebook showing the Singapore police conducting raids on illegal brothels in Rowell Road, located in the Jalan Besar district where popular supper place Swee Choon Tim Sum is also located at.
Together with Desker Road beside it, these two lanes are infamous for being part of Singapore’s red-light districts — the others being Geylang and Changi Village.
And the main reason for the perceived pronounced deviance is due to the brothels in Desker Road and Rowell Road housing transgender prostitutes.
How did they come to be?
However, to understand how and why transgender prostitutes end up in Desker Road and Rowell Road is not easy.
Attempts to trace the beginnings of the sex trade in this particular district based on publicly-available information online has proved futile.
Other than the fact that Desker and Rowell were real people, the oft-repeated fact is simply that the Desker Road area used to house Singapore’s first and largest slaughter house and butchery in the 1860s.
This, naturally, explains nothing — although it is literally a meat trade in the purest form.
More at https://www.prolificcrap.com/forum/...d-rowell-road-home-to-transgender-prostitutes
