Serbia — Neighborhoods

Sex work is illegal for both parties in Serbia: the 2016 Law on Public Order and Peace made both selling and buying a misdemeanour, punishable by fines (up to roughly RSD 150,000) or up to 60 days' detention, with providing premises treated more severely. There is no red-light district; the scene is underground — apartment-based providers advertising on Serbian classifieds sites, freelancers around the bigger hotel bars and casinos, and strip clubs where the inflated-bill playbook operates. Police raids on apartments happen, and clients are processed through fast-track misdemeanour courts.

Belgrade — mainstream nightlife is genuinely excellent and centres on the splavovi (river barges) along the Sava and Danube, the Savamala district and Skadarlija's tavern street; strip clubs cluster around the centre. Novi Sad has a student-driven bar scene and the EXIT festival but minimal adult infrastructure. Given both-sides criminalisation, the legal exposure here is real, not theoretical.