Amsterdam’s world-famous red-light district could look very different going forward as the Dutch city prepares to vote on an ordinance that would permanently close brothel window curtains in order to ...
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While there, I interviewed a resident of the area and a sex worker, and toured the area. I learned there are plenty of misconceptions about one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world. Amsterdam ...
It’s the latest in a long line of efforts to tame the neighborhood. It’s been just over four years since Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s first female mayor, began in earnest her campaign to overhaul the ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The local government in Amsterdam has banned guided tours that take groups past the famed windows in the city’s red-light district where visitors watch semi-naked sex workers pose.
Amsterdam’s long-awaited plans to diminish its red-light district and establish a legal alternative "erotic center" continue to face pushback from sex workers, bartenders and entrepreneurs. City ...
A resident of Amsterdam's Red Light District spoke to Insider about what it's like to live there. Yung Carmiggelt said she wants visitors to be "respectful with the sex workers." "If they want to pay ...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A nonprofit corporation has purchased a large number of the buildings where prostitutes pose in windows in Amsterdam’s Red Light district, the city said yesterday, in a deal ...
Sex workers in Amsterdam say they are being unfairly targeted by city plans to tame its red light district. Known as De Wallen, the city’s centuries-old district takes its nickname from the red neon ...
If the city authorities have their way, the widely sold tourist T-shirt proclaiming that “Good boys go to heaven and bad boys go to Amsterdam” will become a relic. Indeed, those bad boys may soon ...
Amsterdam’s world-famous red-light district could look very different going forward as the Dutch city prepares to vote on an ordinance that would permanently close brothel window curtains in order to ...