![]() He says it 'destroys the fellowship of the gay community'. 'They're into ripping people off.' He does not approve of boys denying their homosexuality while earning a living as male prostitutes. 'The Romanians are not good at comforting the customer in bed,' says Mr Tezing. The customers are mostly men in their 50s and 60s, from all over the West including America. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dutch tolerance has backlashed on itself the dark shapes in the Festivalbar convey a picture of mutual parasitism, with East and West feeding off each other. Most of the boys arrived via Germany, where they failed to get political asylum, and then heard of an easier life in the Netherlands. Europe's belt of sleaze, stretching through the traditional centres of Amsterdam and Berlin, has carved out new notches in Prague, Warsaw and Bucharest. Never before exposed to gay sex, the Romanian boys, aged between 17 and 22, are in it only for money. A slow but steady post-Cold War influx has enabled the rentboys from Romania to take over what was once a placid backwater of Dutch sexual laissez-faire. It is conducted not through ringleaders and brothelkeepers, but over the bar counters of a dark and cobbled alley called Paardenstraat at an average of pounds 50 a trick. THE TRADE in human flesh from East Europe has begun in earnest in Amsterdam.
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