Window prostitution

[2][3][4] The prostitute is also independent and recruits her own customers and also negotiates the price and the services to be provided.

[1] This form arose through the ban on soliciting on the street or in doorways in the old red-light district in Amsterdam around the old church.

[6] In Amsterdam the traditional window prostitution neighbourhoods are the red-light district, the area around the Singel and the Ruysdaelkade.

[10] In Utrecht there was a special form of window prostitution from the 1960s: the women were sitting behind the windows of houseboats moored along the Zandpad, a road along the eastern bank of the Vecht river.

[13] Former: And on many through roads outside built-up areas, for example on the road from Deinze to Sint-Martens-Latem, there are about 60 windows[17] Duisburg,[22] Cologne[18] and Frankfurt am Main[18] contain Eroscenters or Laufhäuser where the women work within a building behind a window, often large buildings of more than 6 floors.

Windows with red lamps in the red-light district of Amsterdam
Boat based window prostitute in Utrecht
Window prostitution in Utrecht took place on houseboats on the Vecht until they were shut down by the city council.