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Amsterdam sex workers protest against plan to move red light district
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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Speaking as a British person,
If the problem is our dickheads going over there and ruining the vibe by harassing the locals, sex workers, and pissing everywhere I have a solution:
Turn the whole area into an LGBT area with Gay Bars and Drag Queens and send over a few of our police to coordinate on patrols with the Dutch police.
I'm serious, on a night out on Canal Street in Manchester there is almost no dickheads because:
They stay away from Gay Bars because of their own insecure masculinity even though Gay Clubs have better music.
The Drag Queens, most of whom act as front of house, ticketing, and head floor management DO NOT suffer fools and anyone harassing or being a knob will be ejected them from the premises quickly.
The GM police love working with the Drag Queens who stand outside the clubs trying to convince punters to go inside because they're an active part of keeping the whole area safe by pointing out antisocial behaviour. Also when they don't have a dickhead to deal with, they're having a good chat.
Edit:
Also a belated apology on behalf of my fellow idiot countrymen. Also I'm of the opinion both sex work and recreational marijuana should be legalised and regualted in the UK. Hopefully that would also help with stemming the flow of idiot tourists abroad.
I appreciate your willingness to self-reflect, but the problem isn't just tourists.
It's a very valuable location and the capitalists want to turn it into expensive condos.
Yeah I tend to think this is the real reason. De Wallen is prime real eststate and Helsema seems bent on turning Amsterdam into a shiny sparkling playground for rich fuckheads.
Have they considered that if they take away the red light district the rich fuckheads might not want to visit as much?
The rich fuck heads will pay enormous sums for the real estate once it is sterilized.
As I said, it's a prime location. Comparable to Manhattan in NYC.
It’s not about visitors. It’s about the real estate in that area. Is very historic and very central but because the area is so party oriented it can’t be properly monetized by these bland, rich parasites.
They wanna push out the riff raff and make it all clean an inoffensive for property investors.
It’s past serving it’s purpose. It drew lots of people and filled government and real estate coffers when the city was down, but now it’s a net drag because the people dropping €6M on an apartment don’t want the common riff raff (anyone able to spend less than €800/night on a hotel room) from disturbing their peace and smelling like skunk all the time.
(Okay, there are technically only a couple places in the city on the market for €6M, but with prices quickly approaching €10000/m2 all but the rich and snobby are getting shoved out)