Paper drunken fascination, left hug right hug, where as long as you have money, you can live like the ancient emperor of the ancient country beautiful three thousand happy experience, and the women there, not only beautiful, good figure, "technology" is also in place. People who have been there have applauded.
That's the red light district of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, where the windows display not merchandise, but all kinds of gorgeous women.
Yes, in the Netherlands, the sex industry is a legal industry that is allowed. In 2000, the Netherlands introduced this policy, which caused a sensation around the world.
The mainland has severely cracked down on pornography, gambling and drugs, and prostitution is a crime, but those open and free Western countries are very different from us, why should they do this?
Why did the Netherlands, a world-rich country, legitimize the sex industry? Now that more than 20 years have passed, how is the development of the sex industry in this country?
Amsterdam: The Red Light District of Drunken Gold Fans
When it comes to the city of Amsterdam, many people's first impression is that it exists like a fairy tale. The city has a very strong artistic atmosphere.
But beyond that, there's another reason he's world-famous for being the bustling red-light district after nightfall.
In 2000, after the Dutch formally enacted a policy of legalizing prostitutes, Amsterdam, as the capital, was keenly aware of the vane of commerce, and immediately followed the government's policies and developed related industries that were born in the shadows.
With the government's norms, there is a region in a city that specializes in the development of sexual industries, which people generally call the red light district, and those who live in daily life or school areas, medical areas, are not allowed to open brothels around.
Amsterdam's most famous and bustling red light district is none other than De Wallen. Some people once said that if you have not been to amsterdam's red light district, it is equivalent to living in this world, so this is enough to prove the prosperity and happiness there.
Here, you can boldly vent yourself, release your desires, and there are a variety of sexual products throughout the street. Those things that people are usually ashamed of are placed directly on the signboard, and the visual impact alone brings a major impact to people.
Even at night, the dazzling lights make the whole area more bustling than during the day. The air is filled with hormonal scents that attract people who come and go.
And on this street, asian faces are generally looking out, because of regional and cultural differences, people in Asia are far less open and free about sex than Westerners.
They were full of yearning and curiosity about this matter, but they were afraid to try it easily because of their face, so they could only stop and watch from a distance and look at the beautiful women in the window.
Yes, you heard it right, what is displayed in the window on this street is not all kinds of clothes and luxuries, but a living beauty.
On the interface of the red light district, there will be one after another oversized three-dimensional windows, which are always closed during the day, and people who don't know think that the economy here is not very prosperous, and the businesses are closed.
But this is not the case, people here not only ignore you, but are much more prosperous than other areas. It's just that unlike the usual business district, this area can only really play the role of these windows at night.
Prostitutes would rent a window for themselves to attract passing customers. And the rental fee for this small area is not cheap, and a prostitute needs three businesses at night to earn back the cost of renting the area.
Why would prostitutes take such a thing to attract business, and is Amsterdam's industry really saturated?
In fact, in layman's terms, the prostitutes in the red light district are seriously "involved", and in order to make more money, they must attract more customers.
As long as you sell your body, you can make more or less money, which is enough to see how low the threshold of the industry is, so the girls have a lot of competitors, and in order to stand out among these competitors, they can only rely on these windows to show themselves.
Although sometimes they are always looked at by the disdainful eyes of people on the road, the girls in these windows do not care at all, and they continue to scratch their heads and seduce the passing crowd.
This can also be reflected in the fact that in such a bustling commercial area, the real profiteers are not the prostitutes who earn money on their own bodies, but the bosses who rent out the land.
These things, which sound inconceivable to us Asians, have become commonplace in the West, where everyone has come to regard prostitutes as a normal profession.
Most of the girls who work in the Red Light District actually already have boyfriends of their own, and some even get married and have children, or choose to continue to come here to "work".
Sex museums are hot and attract the masses
I have to say that in the tradition, Westerners are indeed much more open than we Easterners. The enactment of the Dutch policy of legalizing the sex trade is not a whim, but has long been implied.
In 1985, Amsterdam built a museum about "sex". It mainly shows all kinds of things related to sex. This has greatly stimulated people's curiosity, and people from other countries in the world have visited it endlessly.
The museum is actually not very large, its façade is very small, located on Dan Rak Avenue in front of Central Station, but the large English letters "SEX MUSEUM" written on his signboard attract curious tourists one after another.
Entering this museum, what comes into view is the famous goddess Marilyn Monroe, her classic action of using her hands to slightly block the skirt that is blown up by the wind, and the shyness on her face with some provocative looks, which makes people want to stop watching.
Then he went inside, and before he saw him, he heard his voice first, and the first thing that came was the man's frantic laughter, and then what he could see was a sculpture of a man who was taking off his last piece of clothing.
If it is put in the usual way, many women shyly leave directly when they see this picture, but in this museum in the Netherlands, everyone is not shy, and they also look at this series of exhibits with great interest, and it has to be said that foreigners are much more receptive to sex than the mainland.
The front of this museum is bustling with traffic every day, and many people come to visit it, and the business is extremely hot. According to statistics, at the end of the 19th century, the total number of visitors received by this museum exceeded 11 million, which also led to the development of tourism in the Netherlands.
Perhaps it was this incident that made the Netherlands realize how profitable the sex industry is, and more than a decade later, the controversial policy of legalizing the sex trade was introduced.
Why are prostitutes legalized in the world's richest countries?
The Netherlands, although its land area is very small, but its economic development ranks among the best in Europe. In this country, almost everyone is rich.
Because in the statistics of 2019, the per capita economy of the Netherlands has reached about 52,000 US dollars. So if you are already so rich, why develop this industry?
Although their per capita economy is high, the population of their country is also small. And it is precisely for this reason that the consumption level of their country is also very high.
The rise of the country's economy was due to its superior geographical location, once relying on developed transportation, the Netherlands was known as the "coachman of the sea", and therefore it developed a developed colonial system.
With the progress and development of society, the way in which the economy can rely on colonial development has gradually declined. Geographical conditions that are too narrow are a fatal factor limiting their development.
Later, in the 19th century, the Dutch economy was gradually compared to that of the more powerful Western countries such as Britain and Germany. He later became a second-tier country among the European powers, so if he wanted to develop his own economy, he needed to develop some lowly geographically restricted and highly profitable industries, which is tourism, but what points did he rely on to attract people to travel?
At this time, the sex industry is very important, and the Dutch government has also discovered this, so it has already issued a resolution on relevant policies several years ago, but when participating in the vote, it could not be passed, until 1999 was passed, and it was put into implementation in 2000.
In addition, everyone in the Netherlands lives a very rich life, and the standard of living is generally higher. Thus solving the problem of food and clothing, people will turn their attention to pleasure.
As the saying goes: "Warm and full of lust, hunger and cold to steal the heart", the Dutch prostitute industry has developed so much, and a large part of the reason is that their demand is very high, and there will be production when there is demand, and the demand will be large, and the business opportunities will follow.
In fact, from ancient times to the present, although the sex industry is not allowed by the government, it has been hidden in society, there is a saying called: existence is reasonable, the Dutch government is to grasp this point, decided to legalize this industry.
In 1999, the Dutch government formally passed a bill to legalize the sex trade, and in 2000 the policy was officially implemented.
With this policy, the industries that have been hiding behind the law gradually became bold, and they were put on the table, with a bigger stage to splurge on.
As long as the relevant buildings are built in the specific areas specified by the government, and the taxes are paid reasonably, the prostitutes are regularly examined, and the sanitary conditions are guaranteed, this can be allowed by the government to achieve healthy development.
In this way, it can greatly increase the tax revenue of the government, and promote the prosperity and development of the economy, creating a higher economic myth in this only small land.
Even before the policy was implemented, the sex trade industry had a huge economic effect on the GDP of the small Dutch country.
After the policy allowed liberalization, the industry was even more unrestrained, bringing great contributions to the Dutch economy, 25% of the GDP is generated by this industry, the Netherlands's tourism industry is becoming more and more prosperous, attracting people from all over the world to visit.
The government's intention to allow this industry is good, and it wants to reduce some potential social problems through the legalization of the sex trade industry, such as the employment problem of many unemployed people, as well as the uneven quality of the sex trade industry, poor sanitary conditions, and infectious diseases.
If the sex trade industry is classified as a formal industry that the government allows to develop, and it is regulated and supervised, it can bring more jobs to everyone and reduce the health risks caused by work that is carried out in secret because it is not allowed.
With this series of government regulations, it has to be said that in the early stage of policy implementation, it is true that the sex trading industry has been upgraded to a level of quality, the effect is indeed good, and it has made a great contribution to the economic growth of the Netherlands, but as the policy has been longer and longer, its drawbacks have been exposed more and more.
The drawbacks are becoming more pronounced, with more negative than positive effects
No matter how tough the government's means are, it cannot control the greedy human desires, and now many parties say that the Netherlands regrets issuing this policy decision.
With the continuous development of the sex trade industry, many unscrupulous elements have seen business opportunities, they are inhuman, they can do whatever it takes to make money, and then some drug trade and human trafficking crimes have become more and more rampant.
Many girls suffer, and traffickers use a variety of methods to trick beautiful young girls into the red-light district, using drugs or threats of violence to control women and force them into sex work.
In 1997, a case of trafficking in girls was exposed, and the criminals' methods could be described as extremely cruel, and they were extremely cruel to young girls.
Sarah, who has just graduated from nursing school, wants to find a high-paying job that suits her in society, and she wanders aimlessly on the street and sees a small advertisement for nurses on the side of the road: "I can give you a better life, but the choice is in your hands."
The seductive conditions on the small advertisement drove her to dial the contact number, and on the other end of the phone was not the regular hospital that Sarah imagined, but a cruel trafficker with a sinister smile.
At the direction of the crooks, Sarah boarded the plane to Holland. Shortly after getting off the plane, before she could see the lights of Amsterdam, Sarah was knocked unconscious by a robust man in the car that came to pick him up and injected with contraband.
The 19-year-old girl was deceived because of a momentary negligence. And now. She had become a complete slave to sex, and at a time when business was booming, she had to host 18 guests a night!
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These girls are here to be the tools of the criminals to earn money, there is no human rights to speak of, they have tried to escape many times, but it is very difficult for them to escape after being controlled by drugs.
Even if they were lucky enough to escape, no one would sympathize with them or pity them, because under the chaotic social management, it was already a commonplace thing.
And the trafficker's means are very clever, those girls who have just entered the society will not escape his clutches, he has a variety of reasons such as providing job opportunities, financial assistance, etc., will coax those innocent girls to put them on the road of sex work.
Once a girl goes there, 90% of her life will remain there, and she will face only those never-ending violations and domination later in her life.
So it's enough to see that while linear legitimization has brought very great benefits to the Netherlands, it has caused great harm to certain special groups.
According to statistics, most of the women in this industry in the Netherlands are abducted or forced to engage in traffickers, who use the banner of legal prostitution to do human trafficking and violate human rights behind their backs, and countless young girls have become tools for traffickers to make money.
In addition, the drug trade is also becoming more and more rampant, although the Netherlands allows the trade of soft drugs, but strictly stop hard drugs. But with the development of the sex industry, drug dealers have found ways to transport drugs through information, and the bodies of those young girls have become tools for transporting drugs, and the development of hard drugs has become more and more rampant.
Over time, these drugs will cause far more harm to the country than the spread of disease caused by sexual intercourse.
Germany followed suit, with negative effects gradually emerging
After the Introduction of the Policy of Legalizing The Allowing Sex Trafficking in the Netherlands, the economy has grown by leaps and bounds, and tourism has also soared. And Germany, the old neighbor on the side, is very hungry to see this grand development situation, how can such a road of economic development be let go?
As a result, germany also followed the Dutch policy and law on the legalization of the sex trade two years later, and the sex industry was also allowed in Germany.
Just a year after the introduction of this policy, this industry has indeed brought tens of billions of euros of economic benefits to Germany, greatly prospered the German economy, instilled an emerging development momentum in this developed country, and won the "second spring" of the elderly in Germany.
But it didn't take long for Germany to regret it. Because there are too many gray industrial chains hidden behind this industry, it is not only a human rights problem, but also a series of hidden social problems.
Everything has a two-sided nature, and this industry that seems to have huge economic benefits also hides tens of thousands of problems behind it. It can be said that the great development of this economic industry was exchanged for innocent young girls or ordinary people who were deeply affected by drugs, so that the development at the cost of people was useless and thus sought wealth and death.
In addition to the victims, the traffickers who are engaged in these undertakings are accustomed to this illegal industry, which brings them great economic benefits.
Their thinking has degenerated, and it can be said that it is almost impossible for them to reform themselves, rejoin society, and be down-to-earth.
If this continues for a long time, it will bring about the decline of a country as a whole and the decline of the quality of the people. Wise countries should be able to weigh the pros and cons.
The mainland, on the other hand, has a clear stand in this regard; the mainland will severely crack down on prostitution and stop pornography, gambling, and narcotics; only in this way can we ensure the benign development of a society, which is undoubtedly correct.