AMSTERDAM — Amsterdam’s first female mayor launched plans on Wednesday to overhaul the city’s red light district and its window displays, in a bid to protect sex workers from gawping tourists. Past efforts to control the red light district have faced opposition from sex workers and businesses involved in the lucrative trade. The mayor said there were no plans to outlaw prostitution outright. “We legalized prostitution because we thought and still think that legal prostitution give a woman a chance to be autonomous, independent. “The tourists don’t know how to behave themselves in this area,” said the women who declined to give her name.

Source: National Post July 03, 2019 10:30 UTC