Ire over plan to move sex from the city


Sex workers and sympathisers protest plans to shutter the Amsterdam historic red light district, to be moved to a proposed new erotic centre. - AFP

The atmosphere was tense as residents confronted Amsterdam’s mayor on a controversial plan to move legal prostitution from the city’s historic red light district to a suburban “erotic centre”.

In a meeting hall in the south of the city, hundreds of angry locals who don’t want a “mega brothel” on their doorstep found themselves unexpectedly on the same side as sex workers who want to stay in their red neon booths.

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