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City hopes to dim Amsterdam's red
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Some of the most visited brothels in Amsterdam's red-light district have gained unexpected new neighbors.
For a long time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the brothels' large street-side windows have showcased women of races,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wearing minute bits of clothing because they preened and beckoned customers. But in some windows, women have been recently replaced by plastic mannequins in designer clothes.
What can happen to become a new type of street theater is, instead, the most visible sign of an ambitious new gentrification plan that could take years to accomplish. The city council has dicated to clean up the historic but notorious district, which has become bloated with expanding sleaze. The town is buying up brothels, and it has lent the very first 18 windows and boudoirs for one year to young designers and photographers.
The elders of the Dutch capital, long known for its broad-mindedness, insist they haven't yet been seized with a wave of prudishness. They are saying there is new evidence that criminal gangs, including East Europeans and Russians, have encroached about the area, which makes it meaner, more violent and more within the grip from the underworld of international sex traffickers.
It is not that city officials believe the sex trade here was ever benign. However the business has expanded rapidly and, along with violence, it's spawned cheap hotels, gaudy souvenir shops and greasy snack bars along once-elegant nearby boulevards.
"We've realized this is no longer about small-scale entrepreneurs, but that big crime organizations are involved here in trafficking women,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], drugs, killings along with other criminal activities," said Job Cohen, the mayor. "We're not banning prostitution, but we're reducing the entire circuit: the gambling halls, the pimps, the cash laundering." The mayor said the cleanup was possible now due to tough new zoning codes. The national government has additionally given cities more leeway to revoke licenses.
By official estimates,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sexual transactions alone yield about $100 million per year. But city planners hope they can lessen the smut and attract galleries, boutiques, upscale restaurants and hotels to the city's oldest quarter, valuable property that's the place to find seven medieval churches and countless historic buildings.
Once, prostitution was limited to a little area close to the port. The brothels were usually run by older ladies who had retired from the trade. But a study ready for the mayor's office last year asserted in the past 20 years, power had shifted from madams to Dutch and Eastern European pimps. Tourism, the spread of pornography and changing mores also worked to turn that old center right into a vast, lewd bazaar.
Of all days the district, covering just one half-square mile, includes a parade in men moving along the canals and also the alleyways,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], lined with peep shows, live-sex theaters, legal marijuana cafes and enough shops with erotic films and sex toys to equip an entire battalion. Brothels were legalized in 2000, and according to city statistics, there are now 142, with about 500 display windows for prostitutes. A lot more, which work with illegal immigrants, operate around town secretly.
The planned makeover has angered the working residents and landlords,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who've enlisted lawyers and formed action groups to protect "the unique character" from the neighborhood, among their protests said. Posters saying "Hands Off" have appeared within the windows of cafes and shops.
In the Love Club Thai 21, where a quartet of Asian women were awaiting clients on the recent evening, the club's owner, Robin Fischer, invited a journalist inside. "Come see, we're an ordinary business," he said, in the small office, fitted with a computer, a washing machine along with a row of drying towels overhead. "We have a license, we pay taxes."
He and his friends say city leaders are now being hypocritical in demanding change in the district. "It's the diamond dealers, your accommodation people,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], banks who want to drive us away,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he explained. "Their business isn't clean, either."
Fischer, that has worked in the red-light district for 20 years, and 2 other Dutch landlords who did not want to be named,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], blame foreign pimps for ruining the atmosphere.
"The guys from Eastern Europe bring in young and frightened women, they threaten them and beat them," Fischer said. "In that old days,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], pimps mostly stuck towards the rules, and police would warn people, like, 'Hey, Jan, you're crossing the line.' There was a kind of balance.
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