Continuing on from Amsterdam (which feels like forever ago) we explored the streets, embraced the space cakes and wore suspicious looking emergency raincoats when it bucketed down with rain on our Red Light tour.
My collaboration of Red Light District facts I learnt while while on 'Randy Roy's Red Light Tour':
- Do they pay rent? If so how much is it? They each have their own landlord and pay rent like any other human being. The rooms are below residential/business property and are owned by the government. Rent is about 100euro per day in which case there may be 3 girls sharing the shifts throughout the day. The cost with the girls is 50euro/15minutes. Apparently no guys really even last so the really good girls can overlap time and make heaps of money. I would assume at this stage that from the tone 'Randy Roy' was pro-prostitution.
- How dangerous is it for the girls? Every room has a panic button and every corner a siren in case of an misconduct or foul play.
- Why is it legal? They pay tax, which is how Amsterdam can 'legalize' having lady's on the streets. They make stacks of cash outta these girls!
- What goes on in there? It's not always naughty business that goes on in the booths. An e.g given on our tour was of Mr 30-something who requested him and his 'lady' sit at opposite sides of the room, one by one she rolled him marbles. Apparently this was enough and he left really satisfied, a weird and wonderful Amsterdam story brought to you by me 'Miss naive', who up until this point has presumed all the men strolling the district were animals hunting down prey and now realizes that some of the men may possibly be psychotic as well!
- Are the daytime ones cheaper because unbearable to look at? Every girl is the same price whether they look like a hot librarian or like a terrible version of Kirsty Allie before she lost all that weight.
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