No more Red Lights in Amsterdam
"If the city authorities have their way, the widely sold tourist T-shirt proclaiming that "Good boys go to heaven and bad boys go to Amsterdam" will become a relic. Indeed, those bad boys may soon struggle to find their way to the city's fabled red-light district of "storefront" prostitution. Last week one of the main entrepreneurs in the city's perfectly legal sex industry cashed in, selling his properties in the district. The buyer, for $35 million, was a not-for-profit organization backed by the city of Amsterdam. The plan is to convert the buildings in which prostitutes pose in the windows into apartments and more conventional commercial space." (Time)
posted by Dody G. at 10:34 AM
2 Comments:
good riddance. the red light district is the least impressive part of the city. and it creates a stupid association between legal weed and legal whoring, which poisons the water for all us non-pervert stoners....
as long as they don't buy up all the coffee shops and shroomeries, I'm happy...
6:48 PM
Weirdly enough, it's also the area with some of the coolest architecture in Amsterdam, which is really freaky to look at when prostitutes are eyeing you from across the street
7:20 PM
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