Amsterdam could move parts of iconic red light district into indoor ‘erotic centre’
- The Dutch city said the complex could include a bed and breakfast for prostitutes as well as a sex club, sex theatre and cafes
- Amsterdam’s mayor has vowed to clean up the city as staff complain about throngs of drunk tourists
Amsterdam is looking at moving part of its red light district indoors to an “erotic” complex where prostitutes no longer beckon customers through street-front windows that often attract rowdy tourists.
In plans released Wednesday, the Dutch city said the complex could include a bed and breakfast for prostitutes as well as a sex club, sex theatre and cafes.
Or the city famous for its canals will build a large hotel for sex workers.
“All in all, a prostitution hotel with indoor windows or an erotic centre is the most obvious choice,” the Amsterdam city council said in a statement.
“These options have the most advantages and the fewest disadvantages,” it said in the statement.
Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema has vowed to clean up the city’s red light district as her staff complain that throngs of tourists, often drunk and rowdy, “disrespected both prostitutes and residents.”
Halsema is also wants to fight a new trend, a “major increase in unlicensed underground prostitution” around the city centre’s Wallen area near the central station, for centuries the haunt of sailors and sex workers.