Amsterdam sex workers angry at red light district tours ban.
Tourists are bathed in a red glow emanating from the windows and peep shows' neon lights are packed shoulder to shoulder as they shuffled through the alleys in Amsterdam's red light district, Netherlands, Friday evening, March 29, 2019. The Dutch capital plans to ban guided tours of the red light district, saying they are disrespectful and contribute to congestion in the narrow, canal-side streets where scantily-clad sex workers sit behind windows to attract customers.
On a recent Friday night, the problem was clear to see: Tourists bathed in a red glow emanating from the windows and peep shows' neon lights were packed shoulder to shoulder as they shuffled through the alleys. Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center, which is housed in the same building as Proud, offers its own red light district tours.
"I mean it's like in Paris if you're forbidding to go to the Arc de Triomphe or the Eiffel Tower," she said. People who work in Amsterdam's sex industry question whether there are more tourists, or whether similar numbers are squeezing into a red light district that has shrunk in recent years as hundreds of the sex workers' windows have been shuttered in an attempt to diversify the narrow streets.
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