Inside Barcelona’s high-end brothels and dangerous red-light underworld

0 January 24, 2026 12:00

From the luxury "sex dens" used by footballers to the dangerous street corners where lives are risked for just £4, we dive deep inside the epicenter of Europe’s sex trade.

Spain is now the third-biggest consumer of prostitution in the world, and Barcelona is its beating heart. In this exclusive documentary, we reveal the two parallel worlds of the city. High-flying escorts serving wealthy British businessmen and the heart-breaking reality of trafficked women trapped in the "Raval" slums.

Chapters:
00:00 In this documentary
01:10 Tour of a luxury brothel
05:27 High-end escorts
07:36 Street-level prostitution
10:46 Human trafficking
13:16 Sex workers doing it by choice
15:39 Victims of human trafficking
18:17 Barcelona’s dangerous red-light district

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