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![]() Club OQ News The events organised in our lively nightclub have not gone unnoticed. Various media have spontaneously reported on the entertaining activities. Below you can find an overview of the entertaining events that have recently taken place.
Our nightclub OQ is a popular film location. The Rotterdam rap group The Licks recently took the video Yes I mean that on. Dutch
movies and TV series like Flikken Rotterdam use our club to the 's-Gravendijkwal like as a backdrop.
Naaldhakken en glijmiddel in OQ. In the period between the shortest and longest night of the year visits Karin Koolen
dwellers who earn a living in the night hours. Because while you sleep, people are working hard in Rotterdam. In episode four: the
wonderful world of sex clubs OQ
In Backstage looks reporter Marlies Harting this week over the shoulder of Rien van der Elst, director OQ. The erotic nightclub's
been nearly forty years to the programs Gravendijkwal in Rotterdam.
Opera in Club OQ Nightclub OQ opened its doors to the ‘Lovesongs’ opera during the recent Operadagen Rotterdam (Rotterdam Opera Days).
The festival frequently programmes events in exceptional locations to introduce the style of music to a wider audience. The director of ‘Lovesongs’,
Timothy Nelson, is treated to a wonderful sight during the evening at Club OQ. "The ‘Lovesongs’ opera fits here perfectly since it is different and
exciting, just like this location.” Seven singers moved through the audience singing about love in all its guises in a made-up language. Nelson: "Sometimes
in child-like voices but that suits this adult playground.” ![]()
The Rotterdam Magazine Gers published an article about Club OQ in its 5th edition “Sailors? Yes, indeed, they still come here”, says
Rien van der Elst, manager of Club OQ on the ‘s-Gravendijkwal. “Not as many as there used to be and, nowadays, they are generally young men from Vietnam
and the Philippines. When they come here it’s nothing but laughs. When a sturdy, lascivious Dutch girl approaches them they fall over laughing. They
think it’s great! They don’t usually stay long. A quickie upstairs and off they go again.” ![]()
Topless Girls Nightclub Club OQ has been a household name in Rotterdam since 1976. ‘Topless Girls Nightclub’ adorns the facade in large neon
letters. It’s a Monday morning. Wendy, the good humoured wife of owner Cor de Geus, leads me to the office. There is a bright red Ferrari on a platform in
the middle of the club. The stools around the strip-catwalk are covered in a panther fabric and a LED sign points the way to the sauna. A stainless steel drinks
carousel hangs behind the bar. Disco balls sparkle from the ceiling and photographs of seductive strippers hang on the walls. The TVs are turned off at the
moment but they show sex films in the evenings.
“Sex is secondary” Wendy says: “It isn’t like it used to be. We see about two or three hundred girls pass through each year, of which the majority
stay a few weeks and certainly no more than a few months. It does mean you miss some of the social aspect, we used to exchange Xmas presents but that’s no longer
the case.” Since the brothel ban was lifted in 2000 prostitutes are required to have work permits and are subject to tax. Van der Elst: “Before that we had about
sixty girls in the club, all of a sudden that turned into five. We lost the girls from outside the EU, for example from Brazil.” Since then they have been replaced
by women from Eastern Europe, but it’s not as busy as it was. The girls work using the opting-in-system; for the most part they remain self-employed but pay taxes
to the club. A text that you often see on clubs’ websites and private houses is: ‘We have no control of the schedules and presence of the self-employed ladies.’
It can be awkward for an operator. Van der Elst: “For example, it’s a shame if two groups come in for a stag party at the same time and you only have two girls working.
So we ask the girls: ‘If you want to work, please be in before 11 at night.’ Otherwise it can cause friction between the girls that are already working.” |
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