Sex Workers In Amsterdam Protest New Rules And Reduced Hours..

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I don't blame Amsterdam for wantng to make a change but after maketing yourself like that for decades it's hard to close pandora's box. It will just go underground and even more depraved and impossible to deal with.

 

[Spence]

Not into art? The Van Gogh, the Stedelijk, the Rijksmuseum. For an art head, it's a great city. It has a great museum scene, a lot like Paris.

We ran through those and the Banksy exhibit high as giraffe pûssy all in a single day

Other than a field trip to see the tulips you take away the coffee shops and pussÿ district it’s a one day stop over city on the way to Berlin

 

[mbewane]

This has been a decades long plan to wipe the old centre of the city clean. The real estate in the old centre is now by far the most expensive in the country and because of gentrification and the money invested, the "new" locals have enough political pull to get rid of the nuisance created by tourists, prostitution and punters visiting the bars and hotels.This is the same play ,not unlike what happened to Times Square and the surrounding areas in NY. Red light district will be renamed and made into a franchise Disney world for wholesome tourism,which means older tourists from primarily Asia.

Yeah that's what I'm talking about. And lost here is that this obviously affects locals first and foremost, I didn't see anything resembling lower/middle-class people in the center. Even the few fast-food/street-food spots were more classy and expensive than say in Paris or Brussels. Or the south of Europe or Berlin. Whole center reeked of abstract contemporary art/design type of people. Gave me big Gattaca feel lol. I didn't mind being there a couple of days but felt really out of place.

 

[jj23]

Yeah Amsterdam is trying to clean up but what they don’t realize is beside those weed shops and the red light that no real reason to visit Amsterdam.

Only so much walking around every street looking the same or renting a bike you can do

Yep. Not sure what they are playing at.

Same residents will be the first to hightail it out of there when the tourist dollars go and prospects dwindle.

Work on the shytty tourists, not the institutions.

 

[mbewane]

I don't blame Amsterdam for wantng to make a change but after maketing yourself like that for decades it's hard to close pandora's box. It will just go underground and even more depraved and impossible to deal with.

Ironically that's how it all started in the 70s/80s iirc. The whole legalizing weed was a policy to allow the less violent drug and drop the hammer hard on crack that was an epidemic right into the very center of the city (this one local guy told me that there were streets in the red district were police didn't even go back then). There's a huge misunderstanding that people have about Amsterdam and Dutch people being open/cool/party-goers based on the fact that weed is legal, but in reality it was only legalized as a way to control it extremely tightly AND to combat other drugs in a harsh manner. It was only a pragmatic answer to a bigger issue.

 

[StretfordRed]

Yeah Amsterdam is trying to clean up but what they don’t realize is beside those weed shops and the red light that no real reason to visit Amsterdam.

Only so much walking around every street looking the same or renting a bike you can do

Yea there is man.

There is a tonne of history in Amsterdam. If you’ve ever been with a women then you’ll have a much better trip then with just guys.

 

[karim]

This has been a decades long plan to wipe the old centre of the city clean. The real estate in the old centre is now by far the most expensive in the country and because of gentrification and the money invested, the "new" locals have enough political pull to get rid of the nuisance created by tourists, prostitution and punters visiting the bars and hotels.This is the same play ,not unlike what happened to Times Square and the surrounding areas in NY. Red light district will be renamed and made into a franchise Disney world for wholesome tourism,which means older tourists from primarily Asia.

Ironically, the mayor pushing for these plans is a leftist. She uses progressive rhetoric and says she wants sexworkers to be able to continue to be able to work in a safe environment. But at the same time, she says they don't want tourists "mostly men" who "take a vacation from morals", so to me it sounds like this is also about puritanism. There has been a backlash to dutch liberalism for decades now, from their fight against migrants to drug policy and sexwork.

 

[MikelArteta]

They want quality tourists
Most countries do

i mean its a cheap ass ticket from the uk and a one hour flight
you're not going to get top tier tourists