Prostitution in Scotland

United Kingdom
Prostitution articles
Areas Prostitution in the United Kingdom Prostitution in Northern Ireland Prostitution in Scotland Prostitution in the Crown dependencies
Brothels Holland's Leaguer Silver Cross Tavern
Law Contagious Diseases Acts Policing and Crime Act 2009 Sexual Offences Act Sexual Offences Act 1956 Sexual Offences Act 1985 Sexual Offences Act 2003 Street Offences Act 1959 R v Linekar Common prostitute
Organisations English Collective of Prostitutes Manchester Action on Street Health Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement UK Network of Sex Work Projects United Sex Workers x:talk
Red-light districts Calton, Glasgow Gropecunt Lane Hillfields Kings Cross, London Leith Mountfields, Shrewsbury Pillgwenlly Soho Tiger Bay
Violence Bradford murders Camden Town Murder Hammersmith nude murders Ipswich serial murders Jack the Ripper Murdered sex workers in the UK Murder of Karen Price Peter Sutcliffe Murder of Lynette White Whitechapel murders
Other Bawdy House Riots of 1668 Ephraim John Burford Call Me Elizabeth Caroline Coon Cleveland Street scandal Cross Bones Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies Internet prostitution My Secret Life (memoir) Personal Services Revolting Prostitutes Sally Lodge Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone Silver Cross Tavern Soho walk-up The Poor-Whores Petition Tart card
People
Brothel owners & madams Theresa Berkley; Betty Careless; Elizabeth Cresswell; Jane Douglas; Margaret Fernseed; Bess Holland; Charlotte Hayes; Mary Jeffries; Janie Jones; Darkey Kelly; Walter Kennedy; Sally Lodge; Elizabeth Needham; Dora Noyce; Damaris Page; Cynthia Payne; Emily Robin
Courtesans Elizabeth Armistead; Sophia Baddeley; Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland; Moll Davis; Sarah Fairbrother; Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères; Grace Elliott; Kitty Fisher; Seymour Fleming; Emma, Lady Hamilton; Harriet Howard; Dorothea Jordan; Lillie Langtry; Fanny Murray; Mary Nesbitt; Cora Pearl; Teresia Constantia Phillips; Martha Ray; Mary Robinson; Catherine Walters; Emily Warren; Harriette Wilson
Pimps Messina Brothers; Sarah Rachel Russell
Prostitutes Lily Argent; Susannah Buckler; Betty Careless; Hannah Chaplin; Annie Chapman; Deborah Churchill; Monica Coghlan; Elizabeth Cresswell; Catherine Eddowes; Margaret Fernseed; Priss Fotheringham; Elizabeth Jackson; Rebecca Jarrett; Constantia Jones; Mary Jane Kelly; Moll King; Vicky de Lambray; Sally Lodge; Catherine Lynch; Edith McAlinden; Mary Ann Nichols; Damaris Page; Charlotte Rose; Selina Rushbrook; John Rykener; Sally Salisbury; Aiden Shaw; Emma Elizabeth Smith; Lindi St Clair; Elizabeth Stride; Martha Tabram; Jenny Thompson; Sheila Vogel-Coupe; Rosemary West; Lynette White; Helen Wood
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Prostitution in Scotland has been similar to that in England under the State of Union, but since devolution, the new Scottish Parliament has pursued its own policies.

In Scotland, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is legal, but associated activities (such as public solicitation, operating a brothel, or other forms of pimping) are criminal offences.