Window prostitution explained

Window prostitution is a form of prostitution that is fairly common in the Netherlands and surrounding countries.[1] The prostitute rents a window plus workspace off a window operator for a certain period of time, often per day or part of a day.[2] [3] [4] The prostitute is also independent and recruits her own customers and also negotiates the price and the services to be provided.

Dutch practices

Window prostitution was originally a typical Dutch form of prostitution. This form arose through the ban on soliciting on the street or in doorways in the old red-light district in Amsterdam around the old church.[5] In the beginning the curtains were completely closed, as sexual morality became less strict, the curtains opened even further. When the curtains were completely open, the process continued in the form of fewer and fewer pieces of clothing that the prostitute wore. In current times, the curtains are only closed when the prostitute has a customer.

There are around 1,270 windows used for prostitution in the Netherlands.[6] In Amsterdam the traditional window prostitution neighbourhoods are the red-light district, the area around the Singel and the Ruysdaelkade. In Rotterdam window prostitution has not been tolerated since the seventies.[7] In The Hague it occurs in the Hunsestraat, the Geleenstraat and the Doubletstraat. In Alkmaar there is a tolerance area for windows on the Achterdam. In Arnhem the Spijkerkwartier was the red-light district, but it was closed in January 2006.[8] In Utrecht there was a special form of window prostitution from the 1960s: the women were sitting behind the windows of houseboats moored along the Zandpad, a road along the eastern bank of the Vecht river.[9] In July 2013, the municipal authorities withdrew the permits.[10]

Thirty percent of prostitutes in the Netherlands work behind windows.[11]

List of cities with window prostitution

Belgium

And on many through roads outside built-up areas, for example on the road from Deinze to Sint-Martens-Latem, there are about 60 windows

Germany

Duisburg,[12] Cologne and Frankfurt am Main contain Eroscenters or Laufhäuser where the women work within a building behind a window, often large buildings of more than 6 floors. Both forms are present in Hamburg.

Switzerland

South Korea

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Andrea . Di Nicola . Andrea . Cauduro . Marco . Lombardi . Paolo . Ruspini . 2009 . Prostitution and Human Trafficking: Focus on Clients . Springer-Verlag New York . 978-0-387-73628-0 .
  2. Web site: Amsterdam Prostitutes: The Facts about Window Prostitution in Amsterdam . Amsterdam Advisor . 3 December 2017 .
  3. Web site: Prostitution in Amsterdam . Amsterdam Info . 3 December 2017 .
  4. Web site: Prostitution in the Netherlands . ProstitutieHulpverleningUtrecht . 3 December 2017 .
  5. Web site: Facts on the Red Light District in Amsterdam . Moro . Marianne . USA Today . 3 December 2017.
  6. Web site: Prostitution in the Netherlands . 16 August 2017 . Amsterdam Red Light District Tours . 3 December 2017 .
  7. Web site: Global pressures, local measures: the re-regulation of sex work in the Antwerp Skipper's Quarter . Loopmans . Maarten . van den Broeck . Pieter . Ku Leuven . 3 December 2017 .
  8. Web site: Red light on Dutch sex for sale . Sababa . 4 December 2017 .
  9. Web site: Te koop: Utrechtse seksboten á 10.000 euro . For sale: Utrecht sex boats at €10,000 . 15 June 2016 . RTL Nieuws . 3 December 2017 . nl .
  10. Web site: Utrecht mocht vergunning prostitutieboten 'oude' Zandpad intrekken . Utrecht was allowed to withdraw prostitution boats on Zandpad . 26 April 2016 . Raad van State . 3 December 2017 . nl .
  11. Web site: The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality: Netherlands and the Autonomous Dutch Antilles . .hu-berlin.de . 3 November 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120424174559/http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/IES/netherlands.html . 24 April 2012 .
  12. Web site: Bordell zum Schnäppchenpreis . Brothel at a bargain price . 17 January 2011 . RP Omline . 4 December 2017 . de .
  13. Web site: Ledsom. Mark. Window ban for Zurich's prostitutes. SWI Swissinfo. 5 December 2017. 15 May 2003.
  14. Web site: Se-jeong . Kim . Curtain falling on Seoul's red-light district called 588 . koreatimes . 27 December 2018 . en . 23 February 2017.
  15. Web site: Ghosh . Subhro Prakash . Sex Trade At Cheongnyangni 588 Is A History, Commercial Complexes And Malls To Be Developed . koreaportal . 27 December 2018 . 20 March 2018.

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