(Newswire.net — December 21, 2015) — When one turns 18, in some countries even earlier, one of the things that are first on the to-do-list is learning how to drive and getting a drivers licence. Depending on the country and its regulations, a driving exam consists of theoretical and the practical part. The practical part of the exam is always more interesting. It seems that if one lives in the Netherlands and is 18 years old, driving lessons may be even more interesting than anywhere else in the world, with the help of a new law that has been made effective.
According to the new law, which is called “ride for a ride”, a driving instructor in Holland can legally offer driving lessons in return for sex, as long as their student is over 18. Students, however, are not allowed to do the same. The sex must be safe and it is imperative that it doesn’t endanger public safety. The government of the Netherlands has called this offer “undesirable”, but still legal. Justice Minister Ard van der Steur and transport minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen wrote in a letter to parliament, “It’s not about offering sexual activities for remuneration, but offering a driving lesson. It is important that the initiative lies with the driving instructor and focuses on offering a driving lesson, with the payment provided in sexual acts. When a sexual act offered is in lieu of financial payment, that is prostituion”.
It is also worth mentioning that the Netherlands legalized prostitution in 1830 and since 1988 prostitution has been regarded as a legal profession, which includes brothels, provided that they have a proper licence. Their services are freely advertised on the Internet and in the newspapers. Legalized prostitution was not welcomed by everyone. The Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher said it was “a national mistake”, since he has spent (as Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam) millions of euros trying to turn brothels into restaurants and shops in order to free the city of gangs that had placed themselves there.
Gert-Jan Segers from the Christian Union is totally against this new law and pleads that it should be banned because the student who accepts the offer wouldn’t have an escort (prostitution) licence and futhermore, the tax wouldn’t be paid, reported the Telegraph.
This new “ride for a ride’ law has caused unheard-of migrations to the Netherlands. Since its announcement, the requests for driving instructor licences have quintapled.
Dutch Tory, a driving instructor from Rotterdam said to Motoring Today magazine: “Driving a car is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. You’ve got to put your key into the ignition, turn gently, then oil her up, switch gears from slow to fast, keep the throttle up until you can’t take any more and finally coming to your destination”.
So far it is not known how often these kind of deals occur. Rotterdam police carried out an investigation about ‘sexexchanges’, but they haven’t published the resutlts yet.