I simply could not resist drawing your attention to this article about a local Spanish politician in Valencia who is being accused of blackmailing a brothel in Spain. In itself, this may not be unusual, however I have a suspicion that I have been to the brothel concerned (in a journalistic capacity – I hasten to add!).
Certainly, everything thing seems to tally with an article that I was commissioned to write a few years ago about brothels in Spain called ‘Confessions of a Call Girl’ which you may find mind boggling! This was in response to a more gloomy article I wrote called ‘Spain’s Brothel Culture’ which, I think, displayed an aspect of Spain that is little known to most foreigners.
Indeed, one of the peculiarities of Spain is that there are a profusion of overt brothels in Spain (normally called Clubs de Alterne) which are located on the outskirts of every medium sized town. This is in direct contradiction to the (incorrect) perception of many people that Spain and the culture of Spain is profoundly conservative. The truth is very different (in all regards)…
Nick Snelling – Culture Spain
RELEVANT INFORMATION
Confessions of a Call Girl in Spain
Clubbing Together, Spain as a Brothel Nation

Until recently, the first thing you saw when crossing the border into Spain from Gibraltar is the billboard ad for the local ‘club’.
WELCOME TO SPAIN!
Whilst building restraints, shelved golf courses and ehousig estates, huge corruption trials, resistance to new business, highest unemployment in the EU, Semana Santa preparations go on, a new , HUGE, brothel opens in a residential area.
That is an EXCLUSIVE RESIDENTIAL area of Guadacorte.
What goes on here?
Who approves these plans?
How is it that a family with young children now have a whore house three doors down from them?
Did they ask for it?
Did they have any chance of preventing this?
Is it any wonder €64m has vanished from the Los Barrios town hall?
And its just one of many town halls in this modus operandi.
So the rest of Spain cries, ‘If it wasn’t for Andalucia we would be alright.’
They may have a valid point!.