But the trade is plied in garish places of red and purple lights, with tables holding plates filled with condoms, although customers often will pay extra if the women will let them not wear one. Women are for rent, on the cheap and most will do just about anything requested, so grim is their life, especially those trafficked in from other countries or tricked into the business by pimps and gangsters who lure them with offers of jobs and a better life, only to find themselves trapped on a bad mattress.
He spent six years researching how migration and the austerity-driven economy became an unholy intersection that changed the business of prostitution and made it darker and harder. Lazos said he found that the number of prostitutes in the city increased by 7 percent since , yet prices have dropped drastically, both for women working on the streets and in brothels.
But he also said police mostly leave brothels alone, he said, partly because of the sense among the authorities that they help single men deal with loneliness. The checks are intensive and constant and violations are applied where appropriate.
They think that by paying 20 euros, they buy something. All the women insisted on using only one name because of the stigma and for safety reasons.
None said she had been forced β except by necessity β to be there. But none wanted to be here. All governments been quilty of thisβ¦bunch of perverts.
