Word: amsterdams
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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AMSTERDAM—In typically shameless Amsterdam style, the Prostitute Information Center is nestled just across the alley from Oude Kerk, one of the oldest churches in the city, in the heart of the Red Light District. I’ve come here to interview Mariska Majoor, a former prostitute who runs the information center, for a sidebar in Let’s Go: Amsterdam 2004, but she’s a bit busy...
While I wait, the souvenirs on sale are distracting enough: pamphlets on buying and selling sex in Amsterdam, t-shirts and figurines, reports on sexually transmitted diseases, bulk-pack Durex condoms charmingly renamed Beneluxe for regional promotion...
...weeks in Amsterdam, I’d hoped nothing would shock me—in fact, it was something of a goal. I had a sense that there was something inherently judgmental in shock at the spectrum of humanity. I’d decided that interest was a more appropriate stance—one that didn’t moralize and didn’t pretend to a categorical normality...
...difficult line to walk, since I still felt there were many things reserved for outrage. But consensual human sexuality just wasn’t one of them, at least not in the Red Light District in Amsterdam, where you could be faintly surprised at just how many quirks and kinks could be satisfied, but were more taken aback by how sanitized and touristy...
...target, a Claire's Accessories shop. Nevertheless, 20 or so people made it inside and the mob was born. "The biggest shock is how it spread," says Bill. "Within days people started groups in other cities." Now it has infiltrated much of Europe as well. So far, Dublin, Amsterdam, Zurich and Vienna have had mobs. But no European country has embraced the mob quite like Germany, where 20 cities have staged mobs. "Germans are not usually spontaneous and this gives them a frame for a moment of craziness," says Anne Urbauer, a journalist in Munich. "It's a short escape...