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Amsterdam sex workers and residents march together against controversial erotic center (nltimes.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

The Dutch are about the least afraid-of-sex people there are. It sounds like the mayor is corrupt and developers want the land (which is prime real-estate right near the central train station) for luxury Russian oligarch stolen-loot banking schemes, which is pretty much what the central city of every major European capital is used for these days.