  Search results  Record: oai:ARNO:429361  AuthorsM.B. Aalbers,
M. Deinema TitlePlacing prostitution: the spatial–sexual order
of Amsterdam and its growth coalition JournalCity: analysis of
urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action FacultyFaculty of
Social and Behavioural Sciences AbstractAmsterdam's red-light
district is the paradigmatic case of window prostitution, but it
is not a stable case: both the regulatory context of
prostitution in the Netherlands and the socio-spatial dynamics
of the district have changed throughout the years. This paper
advances our understanding of ‘prostitution and the city’ in at
least two ways. The first refers to the evolution of
prostitution in the last two centuries and the often-paradoxical
effects of changing regulation, in particular the 1911 morality
laws and the 2000 legalization of window prostitution. In both
cases, prostitution, in parallel to the civilizing of other
manners, is relegated to increasingly confined spaces and as
such banned from ‘normal’ social li