Amsterdam’s first female mayor launched plans to overhaul the city’s red light district and its window displays
AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam’s first female mayor launched plans on Wednesday to overhaul the city’s red light district and its window displays, in a bid to protect sex workers from gawping tourists.
Changes were needed because of social shifts, she told Reuters, including the rise of human trafficking and an increase in the number of tourists visiting the district and using their phones to take and post pictures of the women. The plans included four main scenarios: ending street window displays, closing down city center brothels and moving them elsewhere, reducing the number of city center brothels and stepping up the licensing of window workers.
Past efforts to control the red light district have faced opposition from sex workers and businesses involved in the lucrative trade.“We legalized prostitution because we thought and still think that legal prostitution give a woman a chance to be autonomous, independent. Criminalizing prostitution has been done in the United States, I think, makes women extra vulnerable.”
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