![]() ![]() In instituting this measure, the government was attempting to bring its official stance into accordance with a reality in which prostitution was already tolerated. Since 2000, prostitutes have been identified as independent workers who must register with the Chamber of Commerce and pay income tax in order to legally perform their work. Of those, 40% are active in Amsterdam with 5% working the 370 windows or in sex clubs in and around the red light district. There are approximately 20,000 prostitutes working the streets of the Netherlands (Janssen Hovener, 2010). This raises a question about whether stricter regulation, in the context of this culture of tolerance, would actually benefit the sex workers, or make matters worse.īy lifting the prohibition on brothels, the Dutch government sought to give sex workers more autonomy over their profession, reduce criminal activity and improve their labor conditions. Now, however, it is deliberating about making changes to the law that will enhance its oversight over prostitution. By lifting the prohibition on brothels, the Dutch government sought to give sex workers more autonomy over their profession, reduce criminal activity and improve their labor conditions. For the past ten years this has been the case in Amsterdam, where prostitution was legalized in 2000. Taking a trip late at night down the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, the main strip in the city’s red light district, you will witness a world unfamiliar to most people, in which sexual pleasures are easily and explicitly attainable. People often travel here to experience the pleasures of cannabis and carnal desires in a tolerant society-the latter in the form of prostitution. ![]() ![]() – Metje Blaak (leader of ‘Vakbond Vakwerk’, the labor union for sex workers in the red light district.)Īsk others about Amsterdam and there is a good chance that they will tell you about the coffee shops and the red light district. “If you disrespect prostitutes, you disrespect all women.” ![]()
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