Window shopping in Amsterdam..

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
- Victor Hugo

Red light Districts of Amsterdam
The Dutch city of Amsterdam has decided to close one-third of its brothels. Red Light District that everyone knows about is the one where women, of all nationalities, parade their wares in red-fringed window parlours, many ready to offer more than a school boy peep-show in a private cabin. Amsterdam prides itself on its liberalism and has legalized prostitution. Today prostitutes in Holland are taxpayers and have access to medical facilities and better working conditions.


Time's up?
However the city has had enough of it and plans to turn the brothels into shopping and housing complexes. The city authorities insist that they don't want to get rid of prostitution as it is a part of the history of the place, its just that there was too much of sex trade in the city center.

"What we do want is to get rid of the underlying criminality", the city mayor said.

Image Credits : http://www.amsterdam.info/pictures/red-light-district/