Rue Sidi Abdallah Guech

The street Sidi Abdallah Guech is the municipal closed house of Tunis. Located at the entry of the Médina (forks with the street Zarkoun), this sinuous street is a recognized closed house. Indeed, rather than to prohibit the Prostitution and to thus be likely to see developing clandestine activities and STI (in the past called MST), the authorities preferred to set up this very controlled system and which is the only legally authorized system.

Topography

It is about a street of about fifty meters rather narrow and unhealthy. The customers go along it while choosing the prostitutes who work in small parts throughout the street.

Control authorities

The prostitutes are subjected to a very strict medical control carried out regularly by doctors of the public health who come to make various tests: HIV, Syphilis, etc

At the heading “use” of an indentity card of a prostitute working in this street, one can read “civil servant with the ministry for the interior”. This measurement makes it possible to protect them from possible problems like the Proxénétisme and aims moreover at simplifying certain steps to them (for example to ask an administrative document).

Lastly, the street is very supervised by the police force because it is located in popular quarters and rather difficult capital. It proceeds regularly to raids on the spot considering which they are often attended by required people or if required to exclude the minors from them.

History

Origins of the name

Sidi Abdallah Guech is the name of a Tunisian Saint. But one has little information on the character.

Social role

This street is very known in Tunisia and has an important place in the company tunisoise. She is attended by various social class and age brackets (in majority popular). She is also visited by the simple curious one. Lastly, at one time one could find, in a dead end located all at the bottom of the street, men male prostitutes.

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