The Warmoesstraat-area is know as the area where you find most cruise- and fetish-bars and bars with darkrooms. It's the area to cruise and where kinky younsters go, and is based between Dam-square and the Central Station, in the mids of the Red-ligth district.

The popular Zeedijk is close by, as well as the area around the NZ Kolk and Spuistraat where more and more gay life is opening up.