In an attempt to empower sex workers and improve working conditions in the red light district, the mayor of Amsterdam will open a brothel run by the prostitutes themselves. The new brothel occupies 14 “windows” across four buildings in Amsterdam’s red light district, allowing about 40 sex workers to operate out of the premises. “Everything in this project, from the statutes to the decoration of the rooms, is thought out by sex workers,” said one of the sex workers involved. “It is my hope that it will offer pleasant workspaces, where sex workers can be who they are and feel welcome.”
The goal of the initiative is for sex workers to be able to work independently, free to determine their own rental terms and working hours, and to socialize and help each other deal with things like negotiating and unpleasant customers. It’s being dubbed the “municipal brothel” because of the city’s role in the project, but the hope is to “emancipate” sex workers by giving them a chance to “acquire knowledge, experience and a position to develop themselves,” as a person on the initiative explains. According to one male prostitute, “All sex workers working together on a shared, emancipatory goal. That’s something very special.”
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