Claire Byrne: ‘I had lived an adult life up to the age of 38 not having had children, so I know what that freedom is like’
Look for broadly comparable figures for Amsterdam and you’ll find that in 2010 it had 5.3 million visitors, which by 2019 had shot up to 9.2 million, not counting Airbnb users who probably accounted for a couple of million more. An early high-profile target was the “upmarket” brothel, Yab Yum, located in a magnificent 17th-century canal house in the city centre, where many Amsterdam gangsters – most notoriously Klaas Bruinsma, alleged at one stage to have been a sailing friend of Mabel Wisse Smit, later to become Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau – had had showdowns over the years.
As ever the response from each of the three potential locations so far identified has been “not in my backyard” – though a final decision is expected in December. Halsema is philosophical about the objections and confident about the benefits. “Our aim is to change sex work by removing it from a setting that suggests any kind of criminality or shame. I don’t think we will ever meet everyone’s expectations. But we have to look at the bigger picture. And the question when we do is this: how do we make this city liveable for everyone.”
Amsterdam launched a campaign earlier this year aimed at discouraging tourists from visiting just to party and consume alcohol or drugs. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images
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