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Amsterdam sex work advocates are condemning a plan to move the city's famed red-light district from the historic neighborhood of De Wallen to an erotic center on the outskirts of the city.
Changes are sweeping Amsterdam’s famous red-light district and sex workers fear it will affect their income. From 1 April, sex work businesses shut by 3 am instead of 6 am. Authorities are asking young Brits to stay away and there are plans to shift the centuries-old brothels to the city outskirts
Many businesses in Amsterdam's main Red Light District and the surrounding streets in De Wallen neighborhood will be subjected to earlier closing times starting this weekend, including the window prostitution brothels and other sex work companies. They will have to close at 3 a.m. on weekends instead of 6 a.m., and sex workers have raised concerns about the municipality's decision to force them to close up shop early. There is a growing concern that some may resort to working illegally and in hiding in order to compensate for the income loss due to the shortened working hours.
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Amsterdam officials say a set of reforms will help reduce crime and nuisance behavior, but opponents say the measure uses sex workers as a scapegoat for a much larger problem.
The Dutch capital’s famed prostitution windows will now close three hours earlier, at 3am, and Amsterdam officials say reforms designed to rebrand the city’s wild image will help reduce crime and nuisance behaviour.