Our just downloaded 21st episode is called Where Are My Naughty Red Lights Going? Chris and on it I discuss how Amsterdam’s infamous “De Wallen” Red Light district might be moving. I’ve already expounded on this across this blog, but Chris and I give forth on the movement about the move, and then we get into a whole bunch of other cultural news.
I know things never remain the same, but there are just some things I hope will. The De Wallen is so charming, seemingly so regulated, and so perfectly situated I can’t see moving it. Still, Chris and I try to postulate some positivity on the place being possibly moved to another spot in Amsterdam.
We will all have to see how things shake out.
We then get into the question of legalizing sex work, drug legalization, and all the regular fun stuff of Amsterdam and other cities Chris and I have been to.
The thing about the U.S. where Chris and I live and where the LNV podcast originates is that we have so much here. Whether one grabs what they want legally or slightly to the left of the law, there’s lots of stuff that can be easily gotten, enjoyed, and yes, fucked, sucked and tickled. America is the land of opportunity, in so many ways. But if one does not travel, and one is born/bred and lives in the U.S., one tends to think all we have (and again we have lots) is all there is of the world, or how things are done everywhere is how we do things.
And this is simply not true, but it’s something you’ll never realize unless you step over some ancient cobblestone street or visit an ancient Pompeii house of ill repute (as I once did). I’m not saying it’s better or worse here or there; better or worse is subjective, and you will find it in whatever measure you come to see things. I’m just saying that beyond the U.S., things are done differently and sometimes with centuries of more profound historical significance than we do here, in our young country.
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