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Amsterdam ‘Red Light’ district is changing direction The ‘1012 Project’, aims at reducing the number of brothels and other businesses conducive to crimes, such as sex shops, peep shows, cannabis shops, massage parlors and gambling halls SPECIAL REPORT BY XINHUA CORRESPONDENT Miao Xiaojuan.
AMSTERDAM (Xinhua) — J.C. Herman Verhagen, a 38-year-old Dutch, has witnessed steady growth in business in the renowned Red Light district in the heart of Amsterdam, not as a pimp but as a fledgling entrepreneur who owns a pottery shop.
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The 1012 Project, launched by Amsterdam city council three years ago and named after the Red Light district’s postcode, aims to discourage various crimes by reducing the number of brothels and other businesses conducive to crimes, such as sex shops, peep shows, cannabis shops, massage parlors, gambling halls, and so on.
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The council has also planned to close one third of current cannabis shops that are better known as “coffee shops” in Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam’s Red Light district en route to freshness Updated: 2012-03-01 11:07 (Xinhua)
AMSTERDAM – J.C. Herman Verhagen, a 38-year-old Dutch, has witnessed steady growth in business in the renowned Red Light district in the heart of Amsterdam, not as a pimp but as a fledgling entrepreneur who owns a pottery shop.
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The 1012 Project, launched by Amsterdam city council three years ago and named after the Red Light district’s postcode, aims to discourage various crimes by reducing the number of brothels and other businesses conducive to crimes, such as sex shops, peep shows, cannabis shops, massage parlors, gambling halls, and so on.
More than 100 brothels have been closed since 2008, midway toward the city council’s goal of reducing its number by 40 percent. The council has also planned to close one third of current cannabis shops that are better known as “coffee shops” in Amsterdam.

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Feature: Amsterdam’s Red Light district en route to freshness
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2012-3-1  |  
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AMSTERDAM, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) — J.C. Herman Verhagen, a 38-year-old Dutch, has witnessed steady growth in business in the renowned Red Light district in the heart of Amsterdam, not as a pimp but as a fledgling entrepreneur who owns a pottery shop.
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The 1012 Project, launched by Amsterdam city council three years ago and named after the Red Light district’s postcode, aims to discourage various crimes by reducing the number of brothels and other businesses conducive to crimes, such as sex shops, peep shows, cannabis shops, massage parlors, gambling halls, and so on.
More than 100 brothels have been closed since 2008, midway toward the city council’s goal of reducing its number by 40 percent. The council has also planned to close one third of current cannabis shops that are better known as “coffee shops” in Amsterdam.

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We see the house Nescio was born in — a traditional Amsterdam home with a Baroque gable opposite the Tushinsky art deco movie palace and now housing an Asian massage parlor downstairs. Then we press into the less touristy rings of hell, to use Camuss analogy for Amsterdams canals. These streets are darker and less populated. We stand and pay homage to the Holland Bombay Trading Company, a dark stone building on the still waters of a canal where Gronloh made a career for himself, working his way up from clerk to director. Maurits read 40,000 letters and telegrams from the companys archive in The Hague and discovered that Gronloh was often ill, suffering from what a doctor in 1900 diagnosed as nerveuze prikkelbaarheid, an outdated phrase roughly equivalent to the neurasthenia of Victorian English. Maurits discovered a telling correlation: that the businessmens illnesses corresponded to the authors periods of literary composition, one lengthy absence continuing just up to the point where Nescios most f …

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Amsterdam’s red-light district has attracted many foreign visitors to the city over the centuries. While the authorities in the Dutch capital are clamping down on prostitution, other cities around the world are debating whether to create a prostitution zone along Dutch lines. Could Amsterdam’s red-light district become a successful export product?
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Calling card While enthusiasm for an Amsterdam-style red-light district is on the increase abroad, the Dutch capital is clamping down on prostitution. Executive Councillor Lodewijk Asscher wants to turn the red-light district into Amsterdam’s calling card, a place where human trafficking and anti-social behaviour are a thing of the past. Around 100 of the district’s 500 prostitutes’ windows have already been closed and there are plans to shut down another 120. Instead of displaying scantily clad hookers, the windows now look in on the studios of young fashion designers and even an independent radio station.
Amsterdam’s red-light clean-up operation is controversial. Mariska Majoor of the city’s Prostitution Information Centre is one of those opposed to i …

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Amsterdam’s red-light district has attracted many foreign visitors to the city over the centuries. While the authorities in the Dutch capital are clamping down on prostitution, other cities around the world are debating whether to create a prostitution zone along Dutch lines. Could Amsterdam’s red-light district become a successful export product?
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Calling card While enthusiasm for an Amsterdam-style red-light district is on the increase abroad, the Dutch capital is clamping down on prostitution. Executive Councillor Lodewijk Asscher wants to turn the red-light district into Amsterdam’s calling card, a place where human trafficking and anti-social behaviour are a thing of the past. Around 100 of the district’s 500 prostitutes’ windows have already been closed and there are plans to shut down another 120. Instead of displaying scantily clad hookers, the windows now look in on the studios of young fashion designers and even an independent radio station.
Amsterdam’s red-light clean-up operation is controversial. Mariska Majoor of the city’s Prostitution Information Centre is one of those opposed to i …

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… Happy Clappy’ in Amsterdam—or Keeping Cool in The Face of Multiple Crises
Sex in schools, breakfast on a stick, erotic massage parlors—something’s very wrong in our communities.
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To top it off, I now hear that Eagle Rock is becoming the next Amsterdam, which would save vacation expenses if I were a college kid on spring break, but is no help at all when trying to raise young ones. 
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But then I started thinking of the times my kids and I have walked out our front door to find teenagers on our curb smoking their “medicine” or spray-painting their “art.” How much more Amsterdam can I expose my kids to? (Here my jig turned more into a dirge. It’s hard to be happy clappy to a dirge.)
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Finally, I hear that as many as 26 erotic massage parlors in and around Eagle Rock are hiring. Maybe Brenda and I can get jobs there. I can try to pay my bills to Uncle Sam and Brenda can start saving for college. Maybe our lives will become even more happy clappy.

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Dutch prostitute Terry van der Zijden proudly points to a photo she took of the bedroom in which she plies her trade; a sexless still-life neatly mounted on the wall of an Amsterdam art gallery.
“There is my bed, that is my bureau,” she states matter-of-factly in front of a picture of a room with tranquil green linen, scatter cushions and potted flowers — part of an exhibition entitled “This is my workplace” by sex workers who completed a photography course in June.
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Twenty women took part, aged 20 to 65 from around the country, of whom 12 are exhibiting at the small Vriend van Bavink gallery around the corner from Amsterdam’s famous red light district.
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According to Blaak’s De Rode Draad (The Red Thread) labour union, there are about 25,000 sex workers in the Netherlands, working the streets, behind windows, in nightclubs, brothels, private homes, massage parlours and escort agencies.

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Dutch prostitute Terry van der Zijden proudly points to a photo she took of the bedroom in which she plies her trade; a sexless still-life neatly mounted on the wall of an Amsterdam art gallery.
“There is my bed, that is my bureau,” she states matter-of-factly in front of a picture of a room with tranquil green linen, scatter cushions and potted flowers — part of an exhibition entitled “This is my workplace” by sex workers who completed a photography course in June.
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Twenty women took part, aged 20 to 65 from around the country, of whom 12 are exhibiting at the small Vriend van Bavink gallery around the corner from Amsterdam’s famous red light district.
…
According to Blaak’s De Rode Draad (The Red Thread) labour union, there are about 25,000 sex workers in the Netherlands, working the streets, behind windows, in nightclubs, brothels, private homes, massage parlours and escort agencies.

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AMSTERDAM — Dutch prostitute Terry van der Zijden proudly points to a photo she took of the bedroom in which she plies her trade; a sexless still-life neatly mounted on the wall of an Amsterdam art gallery.
“There is my bed, that is my bureau,” she states matter-of-factly in front of a picture of a room with tranquil green linen, scatter cushions and potted flowers — part of an exhibition entitled “This is my workplace” by sex workers who completed a photography course in June.
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Twenty women took part, aged 20 to 65 from around the country, of whom 12 are exhibiting at the small Vriend van Bavink gallery around the corner from Amsterdam’s famous red light district.
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According to Blaak’s De Rode Draad (The Red Thread) labour union, there are about 25,000 sex workers in the Netherlands, working the streets, behind windows, in nightclubs, brothels, private homes, massage parlours and escort agencies.

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