My name is Mark. I am twenty four. It had never occurred to be before this particular night. Having sex with a prostitute, that is. It just happened. I knew that in Europe things were done differently, and that Amsterdam was famous for it's red light district. But, that was it. My story began on the second night of my trip to Holland, the day before I was due to leave the city, heading for Germany. It was very, very late, say around 4am, which I knew wasn't the best time to be wandering the red light streets, but I had nothing else to do, being a bit drunk and stoned, and I'm not easily intimidated either, (that's not a "I can fight the world" attitude, I assure you) so out I was, wandering the crooked streets that I know so little by foot.
I was aware that 4am was the end of the shift for most of the working girls. I saw many of them leaving their work rooms in packs, for safety I am assuming, as there was a few trolls and druggy-types lurking about the place looking seedy. Walking slowly through the red-lit streets, I watched as entire buildings emptied at once. A sensible practice.
In reflection, I too must have looked like one of these, constantly lolling around and lapping the same area continuously, mindlessly; checking out the proceedings. I would say that 85% of the windows were closed completely. There was only a handful of girls still working; most of them rather hot, considering the time of night. All of sudden, it dawned on me that I was in the middle of Amsterdam's red light in the early morning, and nobody knew I was here...I could do anything, and I was starting to get horny. There was only one thing to do.
I continued to make laps, eventually secluding myself to the Oudekennissteeg street, onto the OZA street, down to Stoofsteeg and then back up the quieter OZV. There was one single room left on OZV and the girl was really hot, really slim, with a toned body and bleach blonde hair. I considered picking her but keep walking. There seemed to be a look in her eyes that stopped me from going too near. On Oudekennissteeg, about midway down, was a really pretty girl with mousy brown hair who kept smiling at me as I walked past her window, which caused me to slow down a little and have a look. Eventually, I hung around on the Oudekennissteeg / OZA junction and I think to myself - what the fuck am I doing? My palms were sweating crazy and my heart was going a mile a minute. What else to do in this state? Keep walking, of course!