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Kōrero: Street life

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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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Melanie Lovell-Smith

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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/mi/photograph/20701/picturing-street-sex-workers (accessed 15 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.