By P. Silvam
1 Jul 2018

Orchard Road, the barber’s pole of capitalism in Singapore, is a conglomeration of contemporary urban lifestyle clichés that is home to world-renowned hotels, Michelin-star restaurants and global brands such as Hermès, Cartier and Apple.

In one of them, located beside the security desk, a middle-aged lady wearing a lime green halter top and beige miniskirt performs a series of jumping jacks in full view of passers-by.

“The women from the spas don’t approach couples or families. So as long as that level of respect is there, I think most people don’t mind that the sex trade is a few metres away.”

With expat enclave Forum The Shopping Mall, known for its child- and family-friendly outlets, located just across the street, Cheng predicts the days of old Orchard malls as places of vice are numbered.

“The irony is that you don’t have to look far to notice the sleaze that takes place along this stretch of road,” he says, asking not to be named. “A walk up the wrong flight of stairs or missed turn at a corridor of a notorious mall and you’ll see what I mean.

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Fake news trying to discredit the Peoples Action Party government of Singapore and make Singaporeans look bad. Singapore is sparkling clean in all ways how could there be sleaze in there? Hell the people of Singapore are having so little sex how in world there’s even a sex industry? This is fake news.



Geeeez my hangover this morning is really bad . . . . .

it is pretty obvious

funny that the calbodian embassy is in the same block.just a couple of office units whilst next door is the palatial thai embassy!

Yong, are you by chance from Singapore?

I was seriously disappointed in the 4 floors when I went.

I had heard stories of how is was a pit of depravity but in reality I found it extremely tame. It also didn’t help I ran into 3 “regulars” from Thailand on the weekend runs to make more money. I’ve had much more fun in hole in the wall bars in Thailand and Cambodia.

there used to be 7 redlight districts in singapore whereby trade of sex is conducted, orchard tower is one of them, ofc there is the world famous geylang, then there are the lesser knowns one like desker road, kong siak street, etc cant remember all of them but some are now defunct and revamped as commercial or residential districts

kiwiincambodia wrote: ↑Sun Jul 01, 2018 11:19 am I was seriously disappointed in the 4 floors when I went.

I had heard stories of how is was a pit of depravity but in reality I found it extremely tame. It also didn’t help I ran into 3 “regulars” from Thailand on the weekend runs to make more money. I’ve had much more fun in hole in the wall bars in Thailand and Cambodia.

perhaps u shld hv a better guide

Not sure what the big deal is, tbh

Singaporeans are human, too.

When I lived in south of Thailand, every Friday afternoon, streams of Malaysians and Singaporeans flying in, coming to party, then leave Sunday afternoon. Many had gfs whom they subsidised by paying for apartments etc.