Amsterdam Sex Workers Want to Stay in Red Light District

Veröffentlicht am: 1. Januar 2026


Nighttime canal scene in Amsterdam’s Red Light District: glowing red‑lit windows along a canal with reflections in the water, pedestrians walking on the street and a bicycle leaning against a canal-side railing.

Sex Workers in Amsterdam Do Not Want To Work Elsewhere

Sex workers want to stay in Amsterdam Red Light District, says interest group Red Light United run by Sexarbeiter.

Sex workers do not want the Rotlichtfenstern to be moved to other parts of Amsterdam. They want to stay where they are, in the current Red Light District area.

90% of 170 Sex Workers Want To Work Amsterdam Red Light District

This is the conclusion of a study done by Red Light United, a new interest group formed by window prostitutes im Rotlichtviertel.

Die Stadt Amsterdam zählt 247 Sexarbeitsplätze in De Wallen, mit 348 Fenster-Arbeitsplätzen in der gesamten Stadt im Jahr 2023. Siehe unsere Rotlichtviertel-Statistiken für die Quellen.

Red Light United surveyed 170 of them and concluded that at least 90% of the 170 sex workers want to work in the Red Light District of Amsterdam.

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Red Light United publishes these results in response to the four scenarios that Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema presented today to improve the “unacceptable” situation in the Red Light District.

4 Prostitution Scenario’s In Amsterdam

Amsterdam Sex Workers Like Red Light District
Sex workers like to have more Bordelle in Amsterdam.

Femke Halsema; Green Left party (GroenLinks) member and Amsterdam’s first female mayor has proposed four different scenario’s for prostitution in Amsterdam:

  1. The introduction of a display ban; the curtains on the Red Light District will close and Sexarbeiter Fensterbordell
  2. Window prostitution disappears from the Red Light District and goes to another part of the city.
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“Sex Workers Are People & They Are Entitled To A Workplace”

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The mobile numbers of brothel operators are shown on the windows.

Proud, another Dutch sex work organisation, is very skeptical about the mayor’s debate about the future of Amsterdam Red Light District.

“No way in hell!”, thought Foxxy, who’s a sex worker herself, when she read the mayor’s plans

“Sex workers are people and they are entitled to a workplace! Relocating those workplaces is not an option because then the customers will not know where to find the sex workers. Will Halsema also organise bus-trips for them to the western port section in Amsterdam?”

Entsprechend Foxxy, sex workers who stand behind the windows in Amsterdam’s Red Light District have consciously opted for this form of sex work.

“We believe that it should remain as it is, on top of that the municipality should make it completely legal for sex workers to work more easily from home.“

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Amsterdam Red Light District Sex Workers
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“I’m not so much in favour of extra windows brothels, but about the spreading out of visitors that results from this,” says Masten Stavast of AgapiFensterbordell

“Currently, it’s all happening in an area that’s too small.”

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Cor van Dijk in Amsterdam Red Light District
Cor van Dijk is chairman of a the Red Light District entrepreneurs association.

Cor van Dijk, chairman of the Red Light District entrepreneurs association called ‘Ondernemersvereniging Oudezijds Achterburgwal‘, agrees.

Fensterbordell De Wallen neighborhood.

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“If more windows brothels are added, that will spread the number of people over the entire area and decreases pressure points in certain alleys.

We do not think there have been more tourists in the Red Light District during the recent years, but the Stadt Amsterdam just compressed the same number of people into a smaller area.”

Sex Workers Earn Less Due To The Change Of Visitors

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Mother and daughter walk having a wonder around in Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

The sex workers indicate in research done by Red Light United that they earn less.

According to them, that’s not because of mass tourism, but because of the type of public walking around the Red Light District: backpackers and families with children.

Brothel-operator Stavast is not interested in closed curtains in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, with which the Sexarbeiter disappear from the sight of tourists.

“That is not the intention. On the contrary, the ladies earn from tourists who pass by.

Amsterdam Red Light District Social Control Ensures Safer Area

Amsterdam sex workers earn less
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“Amsterdam Red Light District and sex work belong to each other.“

According to him, the concentration of sex work in the Red Light District has one great advantage in that there is a lot of social. This increases the safety of sex workers.

“No better control than social control!“

Understanding Intimate Encounters in Holland

In the context of the ongoing discussions about the future of Amsterdam Red Light District, it’s interesting to explore how the dynamics of the sex industry might evolve.

As we consider the preference of sex workers to stay in the district, an exploration of how these changes might affect those looking for a Sexdate becomes relevant.

Will the demand for such encounters shift with the potential changes in the district’s landscape, or will it remain a cornerstone of Amsterdam’s unique cultural and social fabric?

For a deeper insight into this aspect, learn more about it in our detailed article on how to get a sex date in Holland?

(This article was translated from the Amsterdam based daily-newspaper Het Parool)

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