synonymous with paid-for sex. However, as with the drugs trade, recent years had brought increasing concern about the practical implications of such a tolerant approach. In the late 1980s, the collapse of the Berlin Wall had sent a wave of young women from Eastern Europe to Amsterdam. In the 1990s, the Schengen agreement meant a citizen of any EU country could set up (or be set up) as a sex worker, without needing a work permit or visa. By 1999, just a third of Amsterdam’s prostitutes were Dutch, with the rest coming from Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Inevitably, not all
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