grimnul wrote:
So, it seems like closing the windows isn’t even the table.
Yes and no.
Scenario 1: the curtains of the window brothels close.
For example, sex workers and their workplaces are no longer visible from the street.
Scenario 2: fewer window brothels in the city center.
Part of the windows in the city center will close. New workplaces are created at another location in Amsterdam. They can be windows, but you don't have to. The establishment of a prostitution hotel is also possible.
Scenario 3: window brothels in the city center close.
All window brothels on the Red Light District and around the Singel will close. New workplaces are being created in another part of the city. They can be windows, but you don't have to. The establishment of a prostitution hotel is also possible.
Scenario 4: more window brothels.
The current number of 330 window brothels in the Red Light District and around the Singel will be expanded to include more workplaces. They can be windows, but you don't have to. The establishment of a prostitution hotel is also possible. Expansion is only an option if the basic principles: guaranteeing human rights, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, money laundering and fraud and less nuisance for residents and other entrepreneurs are met.
https://assets.amsterdam.nl/publish/pag ... itutie.pdfScenario 3 was what was promised 6 years ago in Utrecht. Still waiting. The result there (complete conjecture on my part) may be an increase in the situation the politicians claim to want to prevent i.e. poor working conditions for the SW's who operate there, now invisibly.
Re Scenario 1, I'm assuming the closed curtains is either a euphemism, or bad translation somewhere, and instead refers to restricted access. Closed off streets where you pay to enter? Is that how the Reeperbahn works, or Villa Tinto? Not visited either.