tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057868054965241866.post5785416501313541089..comments2024-03-27T03:07:32.938-07:00Comments on Behind the Red Light District: 6 More prostitution windows closed down in AmsterdamFelicia Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948108030376424994noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057868054965241866.post-47564267449076517672015-04-08T22:57:31.880-07:002015-04-08T22:57:31.880-07:00I am a girl, working on that place already two yea...I am a girl, working on that place already two years! First of all we can use quite a good level of English and some of us even speak Netherlands as well. I am sorry for the dissappointment! <br /><br />Second as far as I am concerned a city council doesn't mean a government. Which means that for the eminent A-dam council would be a little bit hard to change the law. Therefore, as paying taxes and living according the laws of the Netherlands we can surely be qualified as legal with our obligations and ( I am sorry ) rights!<br /><br />I would reccomend the mayor to come there himself and take a close look to us! We are everything else but forced by whoever to do that! It has been found that there are a lot of girls with pimps... ok. We wait for some evidence. As a worker practicing BDSM as well I don't count the body scars, sorry.<br /><br />http://www.minbuza.nl/binaries/content/assets/minbuza/en/import/en/you_and_the_netherlands/about_the_netherlands/ethical_issues/faq-prostitutie-pdf--engels.pdf-2012.pdf<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057868054965241866.post-90002227965864843732015-01-11T07:21:09.351-08:002015-01-11T07:21:09.351-08:00Combat human trafficking? One of the most common l...Combat human trafficking? One of the most common legal back doors to get rid of the prostitution. The legal argument to give the Red Light District another function. According to an article in the newspaper Het Parool on Nov 9. '14 project developers buy many parts of the Wallen against high prices. The area has become very expensive according to two GPs who after 28 years also have to disappear. "The most beautiful (!) parts of the city are controlled by thugs" said a well-known former alderman. When the judge did not accept the withdrawal of the licences in the St. Annen area it was simply "One way or another, we will close it, we want to give the area a different function." The Wallen are a prime location and the girls have to go. "The girls will go to somewhere else or they will retire" said alderman Asscher in a television program. Eros Centers replacing red light districts have never got off the ground because of endless procedures of local residents and companies who fear loss of customers. So usually no effort is made.<br />The police also doesn’t need this headache file. She appears to cooperate with the municipality with the same obscure and undocumented reports. No statements about the nature of human trafficking and forced prostitution, not divided in different categories with percentages as is usual in a solid report. The taxi driver who transports the girls across the border is also a human trafficker when he knows that they aro goiing to work in the prostitution. Forced by poverty is also called forced prostitution. Of course poverty is the most common reason. Public, polititics and the media accept it almost without criticism, with the exception of the Dutch tv program Brandpunt that asked the mayor critical questions. <br /><br />Is this the way to fight crime? Of course not, it will just go to somewhere else. Indeed, until now there is little risk of fanning out in the Netherlands. The Netherlands simply sends its problems to neighboring countries where Eros centers could be established. Also in these countries the windows have become too expensive. Especially in Germany street prostitution has greatly increased. In broad daylight in busy (shopping) streets. The police says it is powerless against it. That’s what is to be expected in a very rich country surrounded by very poor countries. Of course they are not going to solve our problems and they will send it back again. <br />But that's a problem for future city councils, and there are terraces and horeca for the high profile tourist on the Oudezijds and surroundings .<br />Fietsertje57noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057868054965241866.post-16037195002094469992015-01-04T12:44:30.044-08:002015-01-04T12:44:30.044-08:00Although your tirade against the criminal activity...Although your tirade against the criminal activity lies and shrewd strategies of the city to clean up de Wallen (Project 1012) is right on, the closing of these six windows is almost certainly not related to suspicious activities of the landlord(s). <br /><br />As the blueprint for Project 1012 shows, all windows of the entire Annenkwartier of de Wallen (where Bethlehemsteeg is) will be closed in the coming years. The Project 1012 manager stated that the city is already negotiating a buy-out with the owners who, being business men, will probably come out as the big winners, like Charles Geerts did! <br />The big losers are the individual sex workers but, as we're going to hear from our expert, Jojanneke, 70% are anyway forced and should be rescued, so we're supposed to be happy: the sex workers come out as winners, too! <br />'Gentrification' and pleasing developers, that's what the trafficking hysteria has been about during Project 1012, I think, at least since Asscher became alderman. But the history goes back to the 1996 Van Traa Rapport. That was the wake-up call. And, unfortunately, the Sneep Affair (2006-2008) with the Schone Schijn report (2008) gave the cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Alkmaar the ultimate political justification for their prostitution policy with the outcome we know and the unbelievably stigmatizing effect on sex work in general. Both devastating. <br />Smug Asscher must feel the great personal satisfaction that fits his ego. All sex workers can get lost and stay home, as far as he's concerned. Aren't most of them immigrants anyway? That's another 'good' reason to close windows. The man is a dangerous technocrat, as far as I am concerned, unfortunately too smart for his and our own good. Franshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10957801270515070956noreply@blogger.com