On the regulation of prostitution in The Netherlands

It was busy on the street this morning but there were few clients, so in the end it was just me and Mel, talking politics. I tried to explain her in brief the odd way in which prostitution is regulated in The Netherlands, by politicans who choose to actively enhance stigma and local administrators who still prefer to criminalise:
(meanwhile some man walked in, I ignored him)

 Tsai Cheng: They legalised it in holland but it s still being criminalised
 Tsai Cheng: and politics actively contributes to stigma.
 Tsai Cheng: Moral inconsistencies in people are tremendous.
 Melanie Tuxing: They arrest prostitutes in Holland?
 Tsai Cheng: Well not as such.
 Melanie Tuxing: Hi [name edited out]. Looking for a girl?
 Tsai Cheng: it s regulated to such a degree you can t get a licence to operate as independent prostitute
 Tsai Cheng: so most are deemed 'illegal'
 Melanie Tuxing: Is that a political decision - or the decision of hte police?
 Tsai Cheng: Local governments are the ones who should give out licenses but they can choose not to or have a restricted number.
 Tsai Cheng: It's politics,
 Tsai Cheng: Christian moralistic views imposed on the people.
 Melanie Tuxing: Nods.
 Tsai Cheng: Because you can't get a license you'll be dependent on the operators who have licenses.
 Tsai Cheng: Who are the same that were legalised in 2000.
 Melanie Tuxing: The pimps?
 Tsai Cheng: So, next politics says there s 'criminal types' involved.
 Tsai Cheng: and girls are 'being exploited'
 Melanie Tuxing: Smile.
 Tsai Cheng: For their convenience they don t mention that they re facilitating exploitation by not offering them an alternative.
 Tsai Cheng: Girls who work on their own without license are kicked from their houses when they work at home.
 Tsai Cheng: That's what i mean with 'Legal but criminalised.'
 Melanie Tuxing: Ah.
 Tsai Cheng: You can't work in it without active government suppression.
 Tsai Cheng: And our current administration has 2 Christian parties in it.
 Tsai Cheng: Guess what they want...
 Tsai Cheng: Yeah, working here got me to read up a bit.
 Tsai Cheng: I may just write this down.
 Tsai Cheng: Actually I think I should.
 Tsai Cheng: It's kind of weird I think.
 Melanie Tuxing: A basic instinct of people with power is to control the sexuality of others.
 Tsai Cheng: To call something legal, but put so much police and restrictive government effort on it.
 Tsai Cheng: Yes.
 Melanie Tuxing: If you control their sexuality, you control them.