Sex workers and sympathisers take part in a demonstration in Amsterdam on Thursday to protest against plans to move the city’s historic red light district to a new erotic centre. Photo: AFP
Sex workers and sympathisers take part in a demonstration in Amsterdam on Thursday to protest against plans to move the city’s historic red light district to a new erotic centre. Photo: AFP

Amsterdam sex workers protest against new rules seeking to tame red light district

  • Amsterdam officials say a set of reforms designed to rebrand the city’s wild image will help reduce crime and nuisance behaviour in the area
  • The Dutch capital’s famed prostitution windows will now close three hours earlier, at 3am – and sex work businesses could soon move to a different part of town

Sex workers and sympathisers take part in a demonstration in Amsterdam on Thursday to protest against plans to move the city’s historic red light district to a new erotic centre. Photo: AFP
Sex workers and sympathisers take part in a demonstration in Amsterdam on Thursday to protest against plans to move the city’s historic red light district to a new erotic centre. Photo: AFP
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