‘World’s oldest’ escort twins, 83, lastly break up as one retires attributable to arthritis

At 83, Dutch twins Louise and Martine Fokkens, dubbed the “world’s oldest” sex workers, have spent decades behind Amsterdam’s Red Light District windows, defying stereotypes

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In their eighties, these twins are still turning heads and shattering stereotypes. Louise and Martine Fokkens, dubbed the “world’s oldest” sex workers, have seen it all in their decades behind the window in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Now, the sisters are spilling the secrets of their scandalous careers, revealing how their own family reacted when they found out.

The Fokkens twins, aged 83, have spent decades working as prostitutes. However, Louise was forced to retire after arthritis left her unable to “do sexual positions”. Nevertheless, they have even starred in their own documentary, Meet the Fokkens, which offered an unfiltered look at their extraordinary lives behind the glass.

Despite the recent recognition, their career choice didn’t always go down well at home. Louise recalled the moment their mother discovered the truth, telling The Guardian: “Our mother drove down to the canal where we were working on the street and shouted: ‘I see you!

“‘Your father is coming’. She hit me.

“I was very embarrassed for my parents.” Sadly, family conflict didn’t end there, Unilad reported.

Louise revealed that in her early twenties, she was forced into sex work by her own husband. “I was beaten on to the streets by my husband in my early 20s,” she said.

“He told me unless I earned money for him he would leave me, and I had children and loved him, so I had to do it.” The sisters worked as “window girls”, renting small rooms with street-facing windows to attract clients.

While the Netherlands legalised sex work in 2000 in a bid to improve safety and regulation, Martine said the reality has been far from perfect.

“There is no point working just for tax,” she said. “That is why the girls are working from the internet and from home – you are less likely to be spotted by the taxman.”

She added: “The whole family used to live off your earnings and now the tax office comes up with crazy amounts you have to pay. It is better for the pimps and the foreigners, but not the Dutch girls.

“The vultures came in 2000. Organised criminals.

“They thought, ahah, it is legalised. Now we are OK.”

Married with kids, Martine worked as a cleaner in a brothel, often clocking off when the streets were empty and the lights were out. Men would ask her to join them, but she always laughed it off.

However, her husband eventually lost his job in a brutal builders’ strike and she felt like she had no choice to but to turn to sex. “Without her I would never have done it.

“With her, it felt less frightening,” Martine admitted about Louise. Eventually, the pair opened their own brothel and later a traditional Dutch restaurant, De Twee Stiertjes, the Daily Star previously reported.

Famous for their thigh-high leather boots, the sisters would stuff them with cash as they worked and, by the end of the night, money would literally spill out. Not every man came for sex, though – many just wanted to talk.

“It sometimes felt like being a social worker,” Martine said. Some of their highlights include a man who proudly called himself a “filthy little gnome”.

One day in 1965, a Salvation Army officer named Major Bosshardt dropped by the twins’ brothel – accompanied by a sharply dressed woman calling herself “Toos”. The pair were unimpressed until they later found out that she was Princess Beatrix – the future Queen of the Netherlands – on a secret fact-finding mission.

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