Handbags replace hookers in Amsterdam

Subject: Handbags replace hookers in Amsterdam Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:46 am

Skimpy skirts and revealing tops are making way for designer gowns and luxury hand bags in Amsterdam's red light district as part of a drive to ditch the area's seedy image.

Fifteen young Dutch designers opened stores in former brothels on Saturday, displaying their creations in the tall windows where prostitutes recently sat touting for business.

"It is time for a change here," deputy mayor of Amsterdam Lodewijk Asscher said at the launch of the city-backed fashion push.

"Amsterdammers ought to able to feel proud of this area."

The city council is getting tough on the 800 year-old red-light district, pledging to stamp out crime and human trafficking by revoking the licences of suspect sex clubs and brothels, including some of the industry's best-known names.

By allowing the designers to occupy former brothels for a year free of charge it hopes to breathe new life into the area and attract visitors more interested in shopping than ogling sex workers.

But the "Red-light fashion" project has angered local window prostitutes.

"The women here fear it will affect their earnings because the shops will bring the kind of visitor who wants nothing to do with them," said Metje Blaak of the sex workers union.

Subject: Re: Handbags replace hookers in Amsterdam Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:02 am

That's fucking outrageous!
So now they have shops which sell women props, so that they can be more attractive and sexier to the opposite sex, which is designed for exactly the same motherfucking reason as the existence of brothels is! i.e. to fuck them!
Imbecilic council!
They should stay efficient and cut out the unnecessary middle man. And where the hell is their heritage protection agency to nurture and preserve the 800 year-old tradition? I'm boycotting the useless fucks until they close down these superfluous, seedy fashion shops!

Subject: Re: Handbags replace hookers in Amsterdam Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:04 pm

CovOps wrote:: And where the hell is their heritage protection agency to nurture and preserve the 800 year-old tradition?

Handbags replace hookers in Amsterdam

Handbags replace hookers in Amsterdam

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