Meanings
plural RLDs
- Red-light district.
And each city's RLD differs from the others in appearance, constellation of businesses (erotic and other), the location and visibility of sex workers, and the kinds of people one normally finds on the street.
2012, Ronald Weitzer, Legalizing Prostitution, page 1061 more example
Her story didn't add up when other women in the RLD pointed out the working details were wrong and number of clients she claimed to have serviced in the highly regulated industry there was ten times too high.
2017, Brooke Magnanti, Sex, Lies and Statistics
Origin
Initialism.
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