What is it like to live around the corner from one of the Netherland’s red light districts? Resident, and long time lobbyist, Shireen Poyck, explains why she continues to campagin for the removal of the red light district from her neighbourhood in the Hague and why legalization has failed. A recent resolution from the European Parliament agrees. Prostitution is designated as violence against women and the buying of sex is illegal. But there are many working in the sex industry who disagree.