An Erotic Novel How we lost the right to feel. Go to the beach. A Literary Love Affair. This probably belongs under "Night Life," but since that was written mostly by Faera, we felt that it would be inappropriate. Also, I wanted something beginning with the letter 'Z' to end the directory properly.
The Zona de Tolerancia is an especially Mexican accommodation between reality and decorum. In the United States, they used to call these Red Light districts. The facilities are said to be clean and secure. Prostitution is legal in Mexico but pimping and soliciting on the street are not. Most prostitutes work out of bars, many in the Zona de Tolerancia, where it may safely be assumed that any unattached lady is on a business mission.
All known prostitutes are registered and given periodic medical examinations and issued health certificates, just like waitresses.
Taxi drivers will probably be your best source of information. The scenario, according to one taxi driver, is to visit a bar in the Zona de Tolerancia and invite one of the hopefuls to a drink. When you are ready for privacy, there are rustic accommodations nearby. A young male Mexican friend of ours has been to some of these places on more than one occasion as the guest of a client of his.
He said that some of the girls were quite beautiful and the shows were great but that the girls tended to be voraciously greedy and aggressive in trying to get money out of him even before making a deal for sex. He said that the usual method was to demand expensive drinks. When he finally got off alone with one girl she began by putting not one but two condoms on him and he just gave up and went home. Be very careful about your money and valuables.
