I had a good time out there on the Kiez! A lot of you guys showed me around during my time there and I had the opportunity to learn a WHOLE lot about the Reeperbahn! I’ll definitely be back for sure! Oh, and I almost forgot to mention…. Yall know how to PARTY omg! I haven’t partied that hard since the Gamescom afterparties! 🤣 I tried to edit this video in a way KZread wouldn’t fry me btw, so hopefully you guys still enjoy 😉! There’s still SO much I’ve done that I have to show you, such as: The Miniatur Wunderland 😍😍😍

Since prostitution is legal in Germany, you can find a Red Light District in any bigger city, maybe not as famous as the Reeperbahn, but it's there, believe me. Even a city like Nueremberg in the so-called conservative state of Bavaria has Die Mauer (the wall), and it's within the city limit, not somewhere hidden away (as you admire the restored city wall, you can admire the shopping windows with women waiting for customers, just like the Reeperbahn). Prostitutes pay taxes, and have to adhere to certain rules, like regular doctor visits etc. But of course, this does not mean that there is not a dark, brutal and illegal side of women being forced by gangs or pimps into commercial sex.

Ich liebe diese Serien. Für mich ist es sehr interessant, wie andere Menschen unser Land erleben und wie positiv die Reaktionen sind. Danke

I got lost at the Reeperbahn once when I was around 18 years old, so I went to ask a young man talking to a woman for directions. What I didn't realise was that they were in the middle of negotiating a price. Anyway, The man gave me directions, the lady disagreed and told me about a shortcut, they started arguing a bit about which way was faster and I eventually ended up with some solid instructions and they continued their business.

From an old old man 50+ : James, I think you're more conservative than me!😂

I grew up and went to university in Hamburg, so I spent many a party night on and around the Reeperbahn. I have always found it interesting how different cultures co-exist in that district. There are legal sex businesses and their customers, there's the young party people and their clubs and bars, there are theaters and musical shows, nice restaurants, even "normal" people living there and going about their quite average life, and, unfortunately, there is the dark side with drugs, human trafficking, violence, any kind of crime really - and all of that can be found in one block, sometimes within a few squaremeters. It truly is a different world.

Really nice, that you mentioned the problem that subcultures getting destroyed by „usual“ tourists! 👍

I am from Hamburg and I am friends with a lady working in that area and as a social worker, I meet a few of them during work. I think, it is Ok, as long as it is safe and no one is forced to do it. You saw the better side of that business there, the Süderstraße is way harder and more dangerous for the ladies. I love the most about the Reeperbahn area the music clubs because I am deep in metal gigs. I always go alone, I never feel unsafe as a woman there. I think it is like in your city, most of the music acts visit Hamburg, so I have a lot of gigs to attend every year, I love it!

As a woman it annoys and amuses me at the same time that I am not allowed to enter the street. I like window shopping... So nice seeing a recording. Thanks 😅. Hope no one caught you.

I was (before corona) a tourist guide for German/Austrian/Swiss tourists in Amsterdam. My special tours were the Coffeeshops at daylight and "De Wallen", the redlight district at night. That district has a lot of similarities with Hamburg's Reeperbahn. I can confirm what most people already mentioned. Prostitution is legal and quite strictly regulated (social security, paying taxes etc). In all those years I never felt unsafe but saw the most hilarious situations.

As a Dutchman, legal prostitution isn't very strange to me. We have legal prostitution all throughout the country. The Amsterdam Red Light District is most well known, but really it's just a street with girls in the windows. I think it's not very good to have it as a tourist attraction, because foreigners often are not used to it and are used to seeing sex workers as objects and they are more likely to treat the girls with disrespect or under the influence. Locals are used to it and just see the girls as people who do their job and locals are much more respectful. So I think it's fine to have these liberties, but you also have to be mature enough to handle these liberties and most who didnt grow up with it aren't. So its good to have these areas be secluded imo.

In Hamburg, it's also be a traditional sailor culture. Come to Bavaria and other more strict/catholic areas and you experience a more American point of view about Reeperbahn related stuff. Therefore am I so furious when You tubers just show Bavaria maybe Cologne and say 'I was in Germany!' Maybe you get it why😀 I really love that you saw solo much of Hamburg🤩

I was living and working 😉 on the Reeperbahn in my 20s and I never felt not safe there. Might be, because I was pretty young, but these years were my most precious moments!!! Hach, Reeperbahn I miss you so much!!! 😢

What you say about the “free drinks” problem is something you just gotta survive once 😅. 20 years ago I was with a friend at a str*p club on St. Pauli and drank champagne and stuff and then two women came over, also had their drinks and we had a jolly good time...until they came with the bill and we had to pay like whole bottles of expensive champagne. Multiple hundreds of euro...they then took our ID’s and we said we gone get money...and just drove off. My friend next days went to buy a sign with a bulldog on it saying “dangerous dog inside” in hopes this will discourage any unwelcome “visitors” if they choose to collect the money from

I often visit the Reeperbahn for parties ever since I turned 18 and as a woman I have to say I feel more safe there than in most other city's party hot spots (especially Berlin). Never had any negative experience, got to know so many people and made awesome memories

the jack wolfskin jacket wearing quote is so fucking funny because it is so true hhahaha

My paternal family is from Hamburg. I grew up close to Hannover but my extended family still lived in Hamburg. Reeperbahn & Co are just normal. I knew about it since I was a child, there were songs about it that were played in family-friendly evening shows, and, well, it was just a thing, like the harbor, Speicherstadt, Hamburger Dom, etc. Nobody in my average middle-class family made a big deal of it in any way.

It's the oldest profession in the world, you can't ban it,

I'm from Hamburg, and I met my boyfriend while he was working in a bar on Hamburger Berg (one of the side streets).

I'm visiting Hamburg in June for the first time. My friends were based in Germany for a while in the British army near Hamburg and they said it was amazing in the Reeperbahn, they used to go to the windows, but I'm not a fan personally 😂 there's no sport in it for me, but I can't wait to check it out and explore. Great video, looking forward to it even more!