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KanStaandPijpen
@KanStaandPijpen
Part time escort, full time human. Trying to cut through the bullshit believed about sex work. Tweets mostly in Dutch and English. NOT here to get you off.
Jul 6, 2019 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
The mayor of Amsterdam has gone public with a complicated but pretty vague statement about 'taking on' the 'problems' of the Red Light District. This is accompanied by a media push to paint the RLD in a bad light, and foreign media have copied the government story.

A thread. First a little background: The Amsterdam RLD has been a red light district for *centuries*. Everything that a city needs but doesn't want, got concentrated on this part of town. Prostitution, flop houses, rowdy bars, this was the only place they were allowed. Since before 1600.