Prostitution seemed to be a custom of the country with about 5,000 bordels in the city. A session in bed with a “sex worker” cost less than $5.00 U.S. Rates depended on the comfort of the “drop in” establishment, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. March 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Danseuse turc à Beyrouth, Liban - 12/02/1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Mars 1964. Dans la capitale d’Ethiopie il n’y avait pas de quartier de bordels. Ces derniers se trouvaient dans plusieurs endroits. J’étais étonné de voir les affiches religieuses au mur de la chambre de cette prostituée plantureuse quand j’ai pris des photos de cette jolie chrétienne éthiopienne © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

A young prostitute in a brothel enjoys a drink. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. March 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

American soldiers are frequent customers in bars with Vietnamese prostitutes, Vietnam, Saigon, July 1963 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Bordel à Bangkok, Thaïlande - Aout 1963 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

A prostitute waits in the doorway of her modest home for a client. She erected the NO PARKING sign to keep cars away from her house so clients could see her, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. March 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Femme au lit dans un bordel à Lagos, Nigeria - Juillet 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Girls in these “drop in” houses were asked to rent their beds by the day. Today there are 150,000 “sex workers” in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. March 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. March 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Some of the most beautiful women I saw in Somalia worked as prostitutes like this young woman in her tiny bordel room in Mogadishu, Mogadishu, Somalia, May 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA

Femme au lit dans un bordel à Lagos, Nigeria - Juillet 1964 © SIPAHIOGLU/SIPA