"Sex box" redirects here. For the unrelated British television show, seeSex Box. For the La Toya Jackson song, seeSexbox.
"Verrichtungsboxen" inBonn, GermanyView of sex drive-in facility in Amsterdam (where panels do not reach to the ground), which is now closed
Asex drive-in orsex box is a car garage (or similarly shielded location) that is designed to allowprostitution to take place using cars, and can be found in a few countries in Europe. Generally the facilities are created by local authorities to put some control on where prostitution occurs and to provide increased safety.
The concept started in the Netherlands where such facilities are calledafwerkplek (literally meaning "a place to finish the work"; more to the point, "a sheltered area, provided by the authorities, where prostitutes provide their services"[1]), and was first used inUtrecht starting in 1986.[2][3] It was later adopted in Germany (Verrichtungsbox in German, which translates somewhat as "effectuation box" but with a hint of banality and mundaneness), where the Utrecht model was first used inCologne in 2001. There, a football field-sized, fenced-in space of a former industrial area (typically the kind of area where there are no residents to complain about the location), with a gated entry, security cameras, and alarm buttons in each stall.[4][5]
Generally facilities are designed so that the driver cannot exit the vehicle after pulling into the structure, but the prostitute can.[6] In 2008, this design width was reported to be a problem in the Utrecht sex drive-in because the growing sizes ofSUV andluxury cars meant they were having difficulties fitting into the slots.[3]
In 2013, the first facility inSwitzerland opened inZürich. In addition to security, the stalls are equipped with alarm buttons.[7][8] Zurich voters approved the building of the facility in areferendum in March 2012.[9] Due to numerous complaints of public prostitution affecting residents, Zurich began considering the project in 2010 and visited other facilities including those inCologne andEssen, and Swiss news reports referred to the concept assex-boxen (sex boxes).[10][11]
^Swaan, Abram de (2001)."English in the Social Sciences". In Ulrich Ammon (ed.).The Dominance of English As a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities. Walter de Gruyter. p. 76.ISBN9783110166477.
^ab(18 August 2008).Onderzoek naar ruimere afwerkplek,Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch) (article states prostitutes are reporting that the stalls in the Utrecht facility are too small for some luxury cars and SUVs, as the facility has remained mostly unchanged since its construction in 1986)
^Francis, Jessica (25 August 2010).Zürcher prüfen Sex-Boxen für den Strassenstrich (Zurich Considers Sex Boxes For Street Prostitution),Blick (in German) ("Sie sehen aus wie Autowasch-Anlagen ... Einziger Unterschied: Wenn er rausfährt ist sein Auto noch immer schmutzig, er hingegen glücklich." which can be translated as, "they look like car washes ... the only difference: when he leaves the car is still dirty, but he is happy.")
