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.