Productions
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9 October 1995
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ARD Tagesthemen
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Experiment to legalise brothels |
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Anticipating on the banning of the anti-brothellaw in Holland , the Amsterdam council starts a semi-licencing-stystem for the exploiters of prostitution-companies. Juridically this is impossible because the exploitation of a brothel is illegal, but the Dutch steer the well-known ‘pragmatical middle course' of tolerance. The licence-system has to fight the criminal elements in the prostitution branch like, illegal- and minor prostitution, abuse and takes care of the improvement of the position of the porstitute. Checking brothels in the Red Light district with police and firebrigade, applying for a licence at the Amsterdam cityhal with brothelowner Jan Bik and a talk with his girls in his clubs and the other side of the story from Therese van der Helm , a streetworker from the Amsterdam health department: ‘Where will the illegal prostitutes go?'.
Activities: propose subject, research, set-up & planning reportage, accompany filming.