€50? That’s serious inflation from just a decade ago. Something is askew here.
With the open European borders, the professional prostitute class in the Netherlands came under attack by mostly eastern European sex-trafficked women, who worked as illegal prostitutes. At the time the going rate was around €20 for licensed, prostitute-union prostitutes.
€50 (for 10 minutes) was more like the price for ‘concierge’ prostitutes, also not legal, and not in the red light district.
The bottom line is that unlike Germany, where prostitution is very carefully regulated, the Netherlands are so laid back that problems could develop. Left to just the Dutch, neither the prostitution or drugs was a problem; but waves of immigrants quickly took to abusing the system.
Wow, that almost sounds like a country that I'm familiar with.