Is a red light on the porch still associated with a house of prostitution?
Red at Christmas is always balanced with green—no confusion there. And maybe orange is better for All Hallows Eve—it has a pumpkinesque quality—also faintly ambient of pizza eaten after high school football games in the fall. Its a fall colour but red would be bloodier for Halloween—I’d love to use red lighting.
I’d also like to use it at Valentines Day—the entire month of February, actually—a remnant of Christmas until March and Green replace it.
I also like shadows in red light, and the minimal effect it has on night vision. I use it a lot indoors—dim as an exit sign.
But I am reluctant to use it outdoors because people have told me earlier in life that it was associated with red light districts or brothels open for business.
What would be your interpretation or understanding if someone had a red light on the porch?
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I don’t know, but I’ve seen blue lights where I live. I thought it was a symbol for Democrats, but someone told me it was to show support for the police. Oops.
Yeah, surely that’s the only subject that people are going to associate it with, outside of those holidays events.
Blue is to show support for police. I guess, therefore, red is for first responders, not Republicans (or prostitutes?). Orange has also periodically been used to support law enforcement and families of victims. Orange porch lights send message of support to Delphi victim families, investigators. At sunset in Delphi, orange lights were seen burning on porches all around, intended as a sign of support for police.
I just like the ambiance of different spectrums and colours of light—blue and green and variants in between, like the old Mercury Vapor streetlights—I find very pleasant—Green is a little warmer, more watery, and earthier—blue is more the element of air and midnight.
Though red is bloody and Halloweenish, I’d really like to use more of it if it didn’t connotate prostitution. Guess I’ll have to restrict its use indoors.
If I saw a red bulb in a residential neighborhood, my first thought would be that it’s owned by a non-conformist (possibly an artist), not that it’s a prostitution den. Now if it were in a district with lots of other red lights and prostitutes roaming the streets, then I would interpret things differently. That said, I don’t think the red light prostitution thing is still practiced in the US (I could be wrong), I mean it would be pretty easy to get busted by vice, like having a green light to signal to the DEA that you’re selling pot…
I think you should just advertise your “services” on craigslist or something.
You will reach more potential customers that way, and will not have to rely on random passerbys.
Since this is Social, I have to say it makes me feel like singing “ROXANNE!”
It’s odd for suburbia. I love red light inside, but outside is for security and high visibility.
Where I live there is a rumor that the color swimming pool noodle you use signifies if you are a swinger. It’s ridiculous. I’m surprised the lightbulb color outside of a house has not been turned into some sort of sex rumor here.
I am not one to advertise on my lawn or house who or what I support or something about my identity, although I would not mind a huge blow up Sparty for my lawn (Michigan State Spartan) on game day. I do have an S for my school on my mailbox so I can find it easily. The mailboxes are all together in one place for the subdivision.
I don’t think anybody can actually own a color. Do what you like. If somebody comes to your house looking for floozies, they won’t do it twice.
I don’t think so but there’s only one way to find out for sure. Do let us know how it goes.
Red light district is a term derived from better than a hundred years ago when the electrification of cities was a novel experience. Anyone these days assuming a red light dangling from a fixture as a tool for solicitation is in for a nasty disappointment. Out here the red light or lamp on a building is usually the marker for a fire station.
Sure. But why advertise it to every cop that drives by???
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