OLD SCHOOL

Sisters Martine and Louise Fokkens, 71, have finally retired as prostitutes in Amsterdam after 50-year careers. (“Fokkens” is their “stage” name, supposedly translated as “old whores” in Dutch.) Louise hasn’t worked since 2010 because of arthritis, but appeared with Martine in a 2012 documentary and in October 2014 reminisced for the Jewish news agency JTA. The industry changed, Louise said. Amsterdam’s “working girls” are now all foreign and young, and clients are tourists instead of locals. Back then, she said, “Our life in the business [was] a source of pride.”