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See below. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. This will not affect your price. I expected that because I had read several blog posts by visitors to Amsterdam that made it seem this way. They emphasized the fun of pretending to be a prostitute in a window in the red light district, for example.

A lifestyle expat travel blog about culture, history, Brexit, the Royal Family, travels around the world, Europe, and being British in Berlin! Posted on January 19, by thebritishberliner. Just a day after the New Year, I started my international travel adventure for , and my very short trip to Holland. When people think of Amsterdam, their ears immediately prick up, and their eyes bulge intensely at the exotic-ness of that city of sin…. Real people. Ordinary people.

Legal prostitution is one of the most famous things in the Netherlands, along with coffeeshops. Yes, another thing that is legal here and not in your own country. Hence, why sex tourism is also quite important and why it is a very profitable business here — in , sexual transactions were estimated as millions US dollars.

While we all know that Amsterdam is a beautiful city filled with historic buildings and an abundance of culture, the majority of tourists that flock there go for the sex, drugs and infamous Red Light District. I always knew that the Dutch were a liberal, easy going nation but I was surprised to see just how laid back they are towards prostitution. I found it quite upsetting to see women standing in their windows in their underwear, trying to catch the eye of any man walking past and beckoning them into their room. Maybe it was just me or that fact that it was only 10am but most of the women looked sad and lonely as they stared out of the window like a porcelain doll.