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The work is not a literal reconstruction, rather an imaginary scene based on the reality of the brothel rooms with a touch of Surrealism, as the New York Times noted. The details in this consummate highlight of assemblage art are quite fascinating. Not only does The Hoerengracht pose questions about the borderline between whats in and whats out, it brings the actual borderline into question. This confrontation with sex workers, inducing passers-by to gaze through the window, forces people to think and reflect. Who are these women? What do I think about Amsterdams window prostitutes?
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At the same time, the presentation also features a selection of works about prostitution. A key concept in the show is Role Exchange, the title of a legendary work by Marina Abramovic, who documented on video and in photos how she swapped roles with a prostitute for a number of hours in 1975. Marieken Verheyens installation Red Light also invites the viewer to swap places with a prostitute for a moment. This installation was one of the most astonishing exhibits in Amsterdam Historical Museums cultural-historical show Love for Sale: Four Centuries of Prostitution in Amsterdam (2002).

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Bike Coalition Chief Pedals off to Sabbatical in Amsterdam
Tue., Feb. 16 2010 @ 1:35PM
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition executive director Leah Shahum, a key figure in the push to spur city workers to paint the new bike lane network you’re now seeing around town, just announced she’s taking an eight-month sabbatical in Amsterdam.
During that time she’ll be replaced by former Coalition board chair Renee Rivera.
In addition to prostitution and drugs, Amsterdam is known for the large number of city trips taken by bicycle. Shahum did not immediately return a call requesting comment. But we’re assuming the point is not to observe hooking or toking, but rather learn about how the city managed to become bicycle commuting capital of the world.
We found it curious that the extraordinarily competent-seeming Andy Thornley, the  Coalition’s development director, will not be taking the helm while Shahum is gone. We’ll update you on this story as it develops.

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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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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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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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Nancy and Ed Kienholz have achieved notoriety in the art world for their controversial installations. Made in the couple’s Berlin studio, ‘The Hoerengracht’ (‘Whore’s Canal’) is a life-size walk in installation of a stretch of Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District, as it appeared in the 1980s.
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The installation seemingly explores the sex-trade that in contemporary times has become synonymous with Amsterdam’s canal-side streets, but this theme in the history of art is not a new one. Albeit in a less upfront manner, a number of paintings by the Dutch masters in the 17th century present women who are ‘pictoral cousins’ of the mannequins. Further, the tradition of visually structuring paintings using framing archways, doorways and windows has arguably been an established artistic technique since the discovery of perspective. So perhaps, it is not as bizarre as first thought to have an exhibition like ‘The Hoerengracht’ in a gallery that houses paintings that date back to the 13th century.
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On his investigative work for this piece, Ed Kienh …

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While most of us will be busy returning Christmas presents, carefully packing away decorations until next year or making plans to ring in the New Year, seven members of William Jessup University’s Mission’s Team will be heading to Amsterdam.
The team leaves on December 27 and returns to the states on January 7, 2010.
With the Red Light district just around the corner from the Shelter Hostel where the team will be residing; their mission is to share the love of Christ by reaching out to those in need and providing alternatives to their current lifestyles and thought processes.
Look for updates from the team that will be posted on this site to provide more information.
This is the first of three trips planned for the 2009-2010 Academic school year. Other missions trips will go to Brazil and Cambodia and take place later in the year.

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