AMSTERDAM'S ARTFUL ALLURES

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: December 23, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

AMSTERDAM A block from the diamond factory we'd just toured, I turned the corner onto Albert Cuypstraat with my 76-year-old mother, and there they were: a half-dozen of Amsterdam's redoubtable prostitutes. Garishly costumed in next-to-nothing finery, they displayed themselves in a row of sidewalk-level windows like an armada of wanton goldfish in glass bowls.

Mother, who has seen a great deal in a half-century's work as a registered nurse, was no more than mildly shocked - although she did think that 2 p.m. seemed a bit early for women of the night to be laboring in the glow of their red ...

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