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Picturing street sex workers

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Picturing street sex workers

Wellington’s Marion Street has been a regular patch for streetwalkers since the 19th century. This is celebrated in a mural at its northern end. Sex workers still plied their trade there in the early 2000s.

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Ben Schrader, Street life – Street trade and people, 1915–2008, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20701/picturing-street-sex-workers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 4 March 2010.