A brothel, bordello, ranch, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes. ... A famous London brothel of the time was Holland's Leaguer. Patrons supposedly included James I of England and his favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

In Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), the act of engaging in sex as part of an exchange of sexual services for money is legal, but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.In Northern Ireland, which previously had similar laws, paying for sex became illegal from 1 June …