Amsterdam's Green mayor looks to reform red-light district

[Justhadathought]

As an MP, Femke Halsema helped make prostitution legal in the Netherlands. So why does she now want to overhaul an area where sex workers famously ply their trade

Halsema, 53, a former leader of the national Green party, though, faced a difference grade of barracking: shouts of “bitch” and “whore”, and a wall of middle fingers. “It was a moment when I was confronted by being a woman,” she aid, laughing. “I think the last mayor wasn’t called a bitch : www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/16/amsterdam-green-mayor-reform-red-light-district

There will always come a time, when even the most idealistic& woke will realise what it means, and can imply, to be a woman.

She does talk a little about 'empowering sex workers' still.........though. Maybe in time she'll revise that view too.

I don't want to click on Guardian links anymore, since they sold women down the river, but I'm sure she's a nice person although misguided.

Ooh she's very close to realising that "sex work" is humiliating. But are turnstiles, to this degrading attraction, really the answer? Turnstiles!!!

She is still in favour of keeping sex work/prostitution legal, but is hinting at whether the red light district where the women are at windows and "on display" to the public who may humiliate them, may need reconsidered. And that doesn't mean closing it down completely.

a friend told me that in Amsterdam they were selling the idea of the red light district in terms of 'keeping our women safe'
just don't know where to start with that