Amsterdam Honors Prostitutes With A Statue…

We all know of the famous Red Light District in Amsterdam where all the sex workers hang out.  Well, now it looks like the city is erecting (ha haa) a statue in honor of all these  hard working women (and men, apparently) who probably do more for the local economy than all the legalized drugs do.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Amsterdam’s red-light district will soon get a new attraction: a statue to honor prostitutes around the world.

The statue, designed by artist Els Rijerse, will likely be unveiled at the end of March, Dutch news agency ANP reported.

“In many countries, prostitutes struggle and people have no respect for them whatsoever. The statue is meant to give all those men and women strength,” Mariska Majoor, a former prostitute who commissioned the statue, told ANP.

ANP said the statue, made of bronze, shows a woman who confidently looks out into the world.

So prostitutes everywhere can be satisfied to know that their work has now been immortalized.  Though, I’m thinking they could have done a better job of what the statue could look like.  =)