…but I can guarantee that the only Amsterdam news that would be reported internationally would be the latest strike in the simmering, sexy, struggle between the local ladies-’o-the-night and their “keepers”:

Prostitutes campaign against pimps

24 August 2007 AMSTERDAM – Prostitutes in Amsterdam’s red light district started a sticker and poster campaign against pimps on Thursday. They are putting up stickers and posters on windows with the phrases “Pimpfree Zone” and “Pimping is forbidden in The Netherlands”.

The stickers and posters serve to point out to pimps that it is a criminal offence to blackmail prostitutes and make them dependent on them, says lobby organisation De Rode Draad and Vakwerk, the union for sex workers. The organisations are taking the initiative because they feel there are too many pimps hanging around the window prostitution areas of the red light district.

[...] The inspiration for the campaign comes from Australia. In the prostitution district of Sydney someone recently put up a wall mural with the phrase “Pimpfree Zone.”[Copyright Expatica News + ANP 2007]

Ooooohhh.. stickers. Ouch - you girls play rough.

Come on people, the only logical and effective way to end this epic struggle once and for all, is a totally choreographed (by me) Pimps vs. Ho’s DANCE-OFF.

Oh. Yes. Finally, a cause I can support.

Get me a pair of leg-warmers and home-perm-kit STAT.