Please refresh the page and retry. W omen have sold sexual favours in Amsterdam since its earliest days as a port, but their clients are now outnumbered by gawping sightseers and revellers. Stag and hen parties squeeze along the canalsides; tour groups block the alleys. And then there are the darker issues of people-trafficking and forced prostitution. But just what will change, and how, is causing division and fierce debate.
Tourists in Amsterdam red light district ordered to turn their BACKS on sex workers in windows
Going to a Peep Show in Amsterdam: My Red Light District Experience - Eat Sleep Breathe Travel
Strict new rules come into effect in April to stop tourists gawping at the naked and scantily-clad prostitutes. Tourists in Amsterdam's infamous red light district will have to turn their backs on the sex workers in windows, according to strict new rules. Holiday makers visiting the notorious stag-do hotspot are being told to stop ogling the naked and scantily-clad prostitutes in the red light district. Tour guides will have to ensure that visitors have their backs to the women who pose in full-length windows in brothels. The strict new rules, which come into effect in April, have been put in place by city authorities to crack down on the number of gawping tourists swarming the area.
Going to a Peep Show in Amsterdam: My Red Light District Experience
Drank in the old sailor and a couple of other pubs in this area, I went with my husband and two other couples, it's a real eye opener lol. I'm not sure what I expected but I'm positive it's not what I saw. We had a good time but didn't stay long.
It was interesting to see however at some points I feared for my safety. Definitely would go again though! Should be seen just to ease human curiosity, but not somewhere I would want to go again.