Red Light District

Hepburn ( formally known as the Red Light District ) is a district in Portland, Liberty City. The district is bordered by Hepburn Heights to the north, Saint Mark's to the east and Chinatown to the south.

History
Hepburn is one of the oldest districts in Portland. Signs of construction started happening in 1896. Streets were laid out by the city, and tall tenement blocks were constructed over the next five to ten years. Originally, Hepburn included the neighbourhood of Hepburn Heights as well, but Hepburn Heights became it's own district in a re-building project by the government as a attempt to better life qualities.

When prostitution was legalized in 1970, the district of Hepburn, was renamed the Red Light District and became dedicated to "prostitutional commerce". Several prostitution barons rised in the neighbourhood, such as Luigi Goterelli and "Papa Mario", which established successful sex cartels including strip clubs, brothels and sex slave houses. The largest sex cartels by 1991 was the Dominanza Group, Pleasure Diamond Group and Atlantis Management. When the Red Light District was divided in two and the other half became Hepburn Heights, the commercial area for prostitution was also halfed. Prostitution was banned in every other district than the Red Light District by 1997, which however made the competition in the existing RLD more intensive and sexual services became as a result, improved, which also was a goal by the mayor at the time.

When however prostitution was banned in the district in 2005, the sex cartels refused to give up their assets, and started a armed offensive towards the city and federal government. The sex cartels was however defeated after a 3-month long intensive battle between the U.S Army and cartel soldiers. Several of the sex barons were sentenced to life and many of them were also executed. Along with the prostitution ban, the district was also renamed back to Hepburn. Some members that survived the offensives, moved to Nevada and became desert brothel owners and workers.

Many of the sex businesses still operate in Hepburn of today, but has since extended their services to include legitimate massage, but more as a cover-up for the real services being done at the locations.

Trivia

 * During the mid-1970's until 1986, the red lights in the neighbourhood were modified by the transport commission to be five seconds slower, in order to make it easier for prostitutes to recieve customers.