The character known as Borat arrived in the Red Light District of Amsterdam to promote his film.

He praised the city's freewheeling nightlife and defending his portrayal of the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan. Borat boasted of picking up a date at a popular bar the "Cockring", known as a gay meeting place.

"This woman reminded me of Kazakhi woman; she was more tall than me, with hair on arms, and some hair on face, and deep voice," he told the Dutch press.

Borat Sagdiyev, played by British comic Sacha Baron Cohen, has been criticized as a homophobic, misogynistic, English-mangling caricature--the very traits that endear him to fans of his satire. Kazakhstan's government placed four-page advertising inserts in The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune last month, countering Borat's portrayal of the ex-Soviet country as a backward place.