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Photo illustration by Patrick White. Already a member? Sign in. Thousands of pedestrians strolled the cobbled streets under pink neon signs and over canals where trash floated on brown water. High-pitched laughter occasionally punctuated the excited murmur of sightseers and crescendos outside an X-rated cinema. Bachelor parties of different nationalities—the groom-to-be identifiable by his ridiculous costume—walked alongside couples strolling arm-in-arm.
Shop windows displayed all the paraphernalia imaginable in a city where marijuana and prostitution are legal. The other ware displayed in shop windows: young women trafficked here from poor countries of Eastern Europe and forced into sex work. The opposite happened. Freedom of movement within the European Union made it easier for traffickers to bring women from eastern countries like Romania and Bulgaria to rich western cities with liberal laws. It also made it harder to trace links between prostitution and organized crime.
Amsterdam became a human trafficking destination. But now some among the Dutch are fighting for the once unimaginable—the end of legalized prostitution—and they achieved enough signatures on a petition to force the Dutch parliament to debate the matter. The day before I visited the red light district, Exxpose co-founder Natasja Bos met me in Utrecht, a minute train ride east of Amsterdam.
Adopted by Sweden in , this approach criminalizes buyers, decriminalizes prostitutes, offers help to get out of prostitution, and educates the public on the realities of prostitution and sex trafficking.
They started a blog to expose truths about prostitution and human trafficking. Bos and Lous, who call themselves abolitionists, are both Christians, but they say their organization is for anyone who wants to fight the injustice of trafficking. Their work led to a social media campaign last spring. In the wake of MeToo, the petition hit a social nerve and by early April had passed the 40, signature threshold required to introduce debate into the Dutch parliament.