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The Netherlands, located in northwest Europe, has a land area equivalent to the size of Taiwan Province and Shanghai City. Despite its small size and remote location, the Netherlands is known as the most open country in the world: drugs and sex trafficking, which are banned in many countries around the world, are legal and commonplace in the Netherlands.
Dutch law on sex trafficking stipulates that women over the age of 21 can register with the government to become legal sex practitioners, and after completing the registration in accordance with the procedure, they can go to the red light district to rent a shop window to solicit customers for "sex trafficking".
Now, 23 years have passed since the Netherlands legalized the "sex trade", and the Netherlands is also known as the "sex capital" of the world. Its capital, Amsterdam, has become a unique scenery in the world - the "Red Light District" and attracts a large number of foreign tourists.
In these streets of the red light district, there are many small shop windows. These storefronts are closed during the day and open at night. The people inside the windows have different styles, and everyone is exhibiting guests in their own way.
Why would the Netherlands, a very wealthy and highly developed country, agree to legalize the sex trade?
How will the legalization of the sex trade affect the future development of the Netherlands?
01 Historical background of the Dutch [sex trade].
In the 17th century, the Netherlands was in the heyday of its maritime colonial power, known as the "coachman of the sea", and the capital Amsterdam was also known as the trade center of the world.
At that time, Amsterdam was prosperous in navigation and commerce, and merchants and seafarers flocked to earn a lot of money. The life of sailing is boring, long, cookie-cutter, and the crews and merchants who have experienced long sea voyages urgently need some place to indulge in consumption. Against these backdrops, various consumer entertainment venues along the canal emerged, and the area gradually developed into a fixed "red light district", which continues to this day.
02 The development of [sex trafficking] in the Netherlands
In fact, Dutch views on sex trafficking are not static. Like many countries, the Netherlands has legislated that sex trafficking is illegal. However, due to its long-standing historical roots and the large number of practitioners in the sex industry, there are still many individuals and even organizations that secretly engage in sex trafficking.
Even though the Dutch government has vigorously encircled and punished, human trafficking, drugs, murder and other acts derived from sex exchanges have emerged one after another, seriously endangering social security.
In this context, some people have put forward the proposal to "legalize sex trafficking": [put sex work on the surface, so that it is more convenient to supervise and manage]. So in 2000, the Dutch government voted to officially legalize the sex trade.
03 What prompted the Netherlands to decide that [sex trafficking] is legal?
(1) Even if it is prohibited by decree, there is still a large amount of sex trafficking in the Netherlands, which is prone to crime, violence, drug behavior, and great inconvenience to the management of the country.
(2) Due to the lack of universal sex education and state management, a large number of women engaged in sex work do not have access to health and life protection.
(3) The Dutch sex trade has a long history and is in high demand, and its legalization can also bring some economic income to the country.
After legalizing the sex trade, the Dutch government strengthened the management and control of sex establishments, including the size of the "sex trade" premises, fire protection measures and sanitary conditions, and the physical health and medical examinations of sex workers.
04 Impact of the legalization of sex trafficking in the Netherlands
There are two sides to everything, and so does the Dutch legalization of [sex trafficking]. For the Netherlands, there are both positive and negative effects.
Positive Effects:
(1) Economy: After the legalization of the sex trade, the Dutch sex industry attracted tourists from all over the world; This has also greatly promoted the development of tourism in the Netherlands, driving national employment and promoting economic development.
(2) Crime rate: After the legalization of the sex trade: the sex crime rate in the Netherlands was greatly reduced.
(3) Decline in STD infection rate: After the legalization of the industry, due to a series of popular science and protection measures and requirements adopted by the government for sex trafficking and sex workers, the previous phenomenon of dirty and dilapidated has been changed, and the national STD infection rate has also been reduced.
(4) Corruption:
During the period when sex trafficking was illegal in the Netherlands, many people still engaged in sex trafficking surreptitiously by bribing officials. Therefore, after legalization, it also effectively reduces corruption in the political and legal system.
Negative effects:
Although the legality of sex trafficking has brought the above benefits to the Dutch government, the negative impact is not few, mainly reflected in the exploitation and persecution of women.
(1) Personal safety of sex workers:
Many clients of prostitutes suffer from drug addiction or violent tendencies, and threaten, intimidate, beat and rape sex workers during the sex trade, seriously endangering the physical and mental health of sex workers.
(2) Persecution of underage women:
In order to gain profits in the sex trade industry, many people will increase the investment of sex workers, and even force some underage girls to engage in sex trafficking, and many sex practitioners are coerced by pimps to go to prostitution.
(3) All women worldwide:
With the sex trade legal and people lured to make huge profits, many criminal gangs have targeted women around the world, using various cruel methods to aggressively traffic human beings. Especially women in remote, poor countries.
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