Free love and sexual exploitation, diversity and racism, walks in the park and walks to the drug shops; with its liberal laws and multiculturalism, Amsterdam‘s reputation as the city of tolerance has blossomed in recent years, but is it perhaps rather more fittingly the city of neverending antitheses?

If you’re interested in tolerance issues in Amsterdam then you can find out more about the inside story on coffee shop culture, kidnapped women and sex trafficking in Amsterdam and read some of the arguments on tolerance, lack of tolerance and the decline of tolerance to drug culture in Amsterdam.

Dorchan Leidholdt views prostitution as ‘slavery’ and the ‘domination and control of an individual’ whilst Guardian journalist Julie Bindel when interviewing former prostitutes Louise and Martine Fokkens aged 70 from Amsterdam concludes ‘it is almost impossible to get a sense of whether the twins regret…