Offbeat Pay Pimps $2K or Eat Dog Food – Amsterdam’s Red Light District Is Sick
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I teamed up with journalist Renate van der Zee to uncover the truth about Amsterdam’s Red Light District, and it’s far darker than I expected. This isn’t just about girls in windows or tourist fun—think pimps forcing women to earn $2,000 or face eating dog food, or a woman from Uganda trafficked, starved, and blackmailed with videos. Renate’s spent over a decade researching this, even working in a shelter for trafficking victims, and what she found is grim: 50-80% of these women are controlled by pimps or trafficked, and legalization isn’t fixing it—it’s making it worse.
In this video, we dive into the real stories: manipulation by pimps, the racism behind who ends up here, and how tourists unknowingly keep it going. Renate used to think legal brothels were a smart idea, but after hearing from survivors—like one forced into a bondage brothel—she’s completely changed her mind. It’s heavy stuff. Watch to see why Amsterdam’s “clean” sex trade is a myth and what might actually help. Drop your thoughts in the comments—should buying sex be illegal like in Sweden?
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - History of Dutch legal prostitution
04:46 - Working in a Trafficked Women's Shelter
13:44 - What is human trafficking?
19:51 - Mostly foreign pimps
27:30 - Dutch government know the problems
30:38 - Can we stop human trafficking?
38:36 - Sex buyers
40:40 - Is prostitution their only choice?
43:43 - Why it's hard to leave prostitution
49:43 - Prostitution encourages rape50:59 - Prostitution biggest tourist attraction