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Hi , I have a story I would like to share with you. I am 32 years old, making a living in South Africa. I was born in South Africa and grew up there. I visited Amsterdam in March 2008 and after reading a lot of articles on Amsterdam, I wanted to make the experience worth while. I spent the first day in my hotel room and main shopping area. The second day I spent in the shopping area as well and the evening I visited the red light district. What can I say. I have always told myself I would never pay for sex, But I have always lived with the intention to always be able to say in anything that can be done. "I DID THAT, I HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT"Read More About A WOW-Experience...
Alida Bosshardt, who spent more than 50 years working for the Salvation Army and established a center in Amsterdam's Red Light District for sex workers and drug addicts, has died. She was 94.
Bosshardt died Monday, Salvation Army spokeswoman Hella van der Schoot said. "She had heart troubles and kidney problems," she said.
Bosshardt joined the Salvation Army in 1934 and was instructed to work with women in the Red Light District shortly after the end of World War II.
She established a "Goodwill" center in the district that eventually became a place where troubled people came for shelter and social services - prostitutes and their children, the homeless and drug addicts.Read More About Alida Bosshardt, 94, Social Activist...
Amsterdam Girls
The Red Light District in Amsterdam is famous for the many Amsterdam girls behind red lid windows.
These window brothels are unique for Amsterdam and many visitors look in amazement at the many beautiful girls.
Because of the tolerant attitude towards prostitution (it's legal), girls from many countries are working here.
Some girls prefer to work as a escort. And although the Red Light District is a more safe environment for the girls as well as the clients, working for an escort service offers more anonymity.
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This Amsterdam Red Light District Map helps you to find your way around. Coming out of the Central Station the Red Light area is a 5 minute walk away. Just take one of the many small streets and it is hard to miss the red lights. And you will not be the only one! This is the main tourist attraction of Amsterdam.
The red pointer on the map below points out the center of the Red Light District.
For street names click on the map button at the top of the satellite image. On the left side are buttons to enlarge the image and you can also drag the image to see another part of the city.
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Authorities announced a major crackdown on organized crime in Amsterdam's Red Light District yesterday , for the first time allowing national police investigators and tax authorities to see the extent of what had long been seen as a local problem.With its scantily clad prostitutes posing in brothel windows and coffee shops oozing the pungent aroma of marijuana smoke, the area's seediness has always been part of its attraction.
But the district is a magnet for petty criminals and, authorities believe, human traffickers, drug lords, and mobsters who take advantage of the situation to launder money. Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, and coffee shops are licensed to sell small amounts of marijuana. But prostitutes don't have cash registers and drug vendors don't give receipts, making it easy for them to launder money for crime lords.
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The city of Amsterdam is to close 51 of the window brothels in its famous red light district. This is about one-third of the total.
The city has reached a 25m euro deal to buy many of the premises and turn them into shops or housing.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, said that although prostitution was legal in the Netherlands, there was too much of the sex trade in the city centre.
He also said that the trade involved exploitation and trafficking of women, and other kinds of criminal activity.
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Red lights still glow in the small rooms along one of Amsterdam's inner city alleys, but the some beds are gone and artists are working on creative installations where prostitutes used to entertain clients.
As part of efforts to revitalise its centre and rein in a mushrooming red light district, the city of Amsterdam in cooperation with a housing corporation has acquired some former brothel rooms and rented them out to artists as studios.
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The municipality of Amsterdam wants to work with large investors to buy up more of the buildings in the red light district so as to combat crime and deterioration.
The city has its eye mainly on prostitution businesses and coffeeshops.
Together with NV Stadsgoed of housing corporation Het Oosten Amsterdam has already acquired 83 buildings in the notorious neighbourhood.
"We plan to continue this on a larger scale," alderman Lodewijk Asscher (economic affairs) said on Thursday. "We are in talks with large investors who can develop new investment plans for the inner city under the direction of the municipality."
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Amsterdam councillor Mr Asscher has launched a plan to raise the minimum age of prostitutes from 18 to 23. Mr Asscher wants to clean up Amsterdam's Red Light district and is proposing a whole raft of measures.In addition to raising the minimum age, he also wants the Red Light district in the Wallen area to close down between 04:00 and 08:00 in the morning.
One of the councillor's aims is to strengthen the position of the women who work in the sex industry.
He told NOS public radio, "We recently saw the escape of a people trafficker who used extreme violence to pressure very young girls who were far from home into prostitution in the Wallen area. An 18-year-old girl from Bulgaria, for example, is less able to fend for herself than a woman who is older.
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Open day in the Red Light District of Amsterdam
Amsterdam's sex workers came to work early today (31th of March 2007) to offer a free look into their business in the red-light district.
Hundreds of wide-eyed visitors queued in the sunshine to enter the dimly-lit sex clubs and peep shows that draw thousands to the city and to snoop around sex workers' neon-lit boudoirs.
“I think the open day is a great idea,” said Love, an erotic dancer at Amsterdam's Banana Bar, who was on hand to answer questions and pose for photographs.
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