The Low Down On Amsterdam Escorts.

Last updated: 3 february, 2010 – 16:39 GMT Amsterdam to clean up its ‘window brothels’
The authorities in Amsterdam says many prostitutes are forced to work in the red light district by criminal gangs
Amsterdam has long been infamous for its ‘window brothels’, streets lined with windows of women selling themselves for sex.
But now there are changes afoot.
The local government is closing almost half of all its window brothels in a move to clean up its image.
This is happening despite the views of many prostitutes who feel their lives will be endangered without the windows.
The BBC’s Tjitske Lingsma reports.
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Five years ago I became Public Enemy Number One when I said I’d pay for Shane Junior, a couple of mates and an adult to go to Amsterdam for a weekend if he did well in his GCSEs.
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Of course I knew he wanted to see the redlight district. I wasn’t shocked. We have a very open relationship, so it wasn’t as if I didn’t know he was having sex. He was just acting his age and wanted to see the prostitutes in Amsterdam.
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I think what the Amsterdam episode shows is that I do have a healthy, open relationship with my sons when it comes to discussing sex. Because sex was a taboo subject in my own family when I was growing up, I wanted my kids to feel comfortable talking to me about it. I wanted them to be prepared and to be safe. I started the sex talk quite early, not because I was condoning …

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Since the 17th Century, the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, the good burghers of Amsterdam had to decide how to deal with the world’s oldest profession. Prohibit it or regulate and condone it? When a foreigner visits Amsterdam for the first time, the sight of prostitutes sitting in windows seems shocking. A few days there and you become used to it. It even seems civilized.
We all know it’s illegal for a politician to actually sell a vote, but the Dutch have a word for activities that are illegal, but unofficially tolerated..GEDOGEN. Amsterdam officials don’t use the word “brothel,” they’re known as “alternative businesses.” Isn’t that what our politics has become? An alternative business? There could be sections for older politicians as there are for older prostitutes in Amsterdam. Those running for office could even offer a discount, say for the holidays or a candy cane for the kids.

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Am I my brothel’s keeper?
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And personally, I’m out at  7 a.m. every single day, walking around, and I don’t see “creeps and boozers.” Of course, I’m not usually looking for a brothel then, and maybe Mr. Asscher  is only familiar with people who are.
Lastly, it’s entirely possible that some dudes go to a brothel at 7 a.m. because they enjoy messing around in a tawdry setting while watching early morning TV infomercials about cheap gadgets that make lunch meat. Would you call THEM creeps?
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Right: A prostitute poses in the a doorway on the Achterdam, one of the oldest streets in Alkmaar, a town north of Amsterdam, in a 2001 file photo. REUTERS/Paul Vreeker
Left: Banana Bar dancers pose with a visitor during the open day of Amsterdam’s red light district in a 2007 file photo. Organizers staged the open day to counter bad publicity surrounding the 800-year-old district after harrowing reports of forced prostitution, human trafficking and organized crime. REUTERS/Toussaint Kluiters

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Two men arrested for homosexuality in Dubai: “The first man, MN, is charged with prostitution, consensual homosexual sex, producing pornographic material, cross-dressing and insulting religion.
The second, MF, an 18-year-old student, is charged with prostitution.
Homosexuality is illegal in the UAE. Both defendants face a minimum of three years imprisonment and a maximum sentence of 15 years if found guilty.”

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Goldschmeding preaches for the AAC-Jouw church which operates in Amersfoort and Amsterdam. He and his wife told court officials the older boys are no longer hit because they are older and alternative sanctions have been found for the younger child, born in 2005.
Goldschmeding and his wife were arrested last March on child abuse charges and released after questioning. ‘They told me I can no longer teach using that passage from the Bible. But it is not a doctrine I made up,’ he told the Telegraaf at the time.
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I believe his Bible also advocates the death penalty for various acts including murder, kidnapping, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, being a false prophet, rape, and prostitution. I would hope that he recognises how outdated and ludicrous these ideas are. Yet he still clings on to the hope that he will get public sympathy for physical violence against a minor.

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Amsterdam attracts millions of visitors each year and museums are amongst the main tourist attractions. Giving a unique tour of one of the most popular cities in Europe, Agcaoili made sure the viewers get to see the Sex Museum, Anne Frank House, Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and the Red Light District.
Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands and it is mainly concentrated in the Red Light District. Agcaoili said this famous tourist destination in Amsterdam, where women of different sizes and colors parade their wares inside their rented glass windows, amuses her to this day.
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“Amsterdam is really a city of contradiction. Dito Red Light district, dun sa kabila punong-puno ng coffee shop. Dun naman sa ibang street makikita mo may church, then may university. Halu-halo sila kaya nga tuwang-tuwa ako dito kasi it’s very, very diverse. You can do whatever you want. Plus, yung museums nagkalat din siya, parang kabute,” she said.

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Amsterdam is a maze.
Each hour, my friend Billy and I lost ourselves in alleys, canals and cobbled streets. The lanes connected at odd angles; they changed texture, defied logic. Where we expected to find the sea, we found brick dead-ends. The Red Light District eluded us for hours, and when we finally stumbled past the eerie windows containing women in lingerie, it was by accident.
But the traffic was strangest of all: Trams rumbled over bridges, clanging bells to warn us off the tracks. Bicycles sneaked around corners, then whirred quietly around us. Cars squeezed past each other and narrowly missed pedestrian toes.
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When we finally reached our hotel – a little place along a dark canal street – cold and silence had descended. In the vacuum of sound and movement, we could only watch the reflection of Amsterdam’s houses in the water, trembling.

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The embarrassing attempted suicide bombing of a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam on Christmas Day by a young Nigerian, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, caught the global community in unbelievable frenzy, because, Nigerians’ notoriety has never reached a level of suicide bombing.
It is very unfortunate that immediately the news broke out that the bomb suspect was a Muslim from Northern Nigeria, many self-pride bloggers and commentators with hidden agenda used the incident to attack a section of the country and adherents of Islamic faith. So painful was their insinuation that they poured out balderdash to call for secession of some parts of the country and rained insults on the family of the young Abdulmutallab. In law, a suspect is presumed innocent until proven otherwise by a competent court, yet some Nigerians continued to sensationalise the incident with sectional and religious sentiments which exemplified our backwardness in public discourse. To one’s bewilderment, foreign media and analysts exhibit more restraint in associating the conduct of the child to the characte …

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… My wife is a Christian. Some of my best friends are Christians,” he says. “I can sing Christian hymns because I’ve been to church with my wife and friends, and they come to my Muslim celebrations.”
Other Muslims say the religious violence is a symptom of a deeper problem in Nigeria: widespread poverty and corruption.
Saratu Abiola is a Nigerian who shares some of the same background with AbdulMutallab, the suspected terrorist. She is also 23 and a Muslim who left Nigeria to attend an international boarding school.
Abiola, a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says many Nigerians turn to religion because they don’t think they can rely on the state. Though the country is rich with oil wealth, the cities are full of beggars and prostitutes — it’s common to see police officers brazenly demanding money at checkpoints, she says.

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