Amsterdam wants to shut down the city's Red Light District, undertaking a plan to replace the peep shows, sex shops and prostitute windows with galleries, boutiques and upscale restaurants and bars. Goodbye to the big neon signs advertising every possible form of sexual indulgence. Amsterdam's mayor, Job Cohen, and his aldermen have demonstrated little nostalgia for the district, which has been the world's most famous home of sexual permissiveness since the 15th century.
