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Now you can find prostitutes in many Moscow streets: Tverskaya Street, Lininsky Prospect, Leningradskoye Shosse (highway) and Sadovoe Koltso (Garden Ring) too. You also find them in hotels, clubs, casinos, in all central squares. This phenomenon has become global and not only in Moscow. Some people say the prostitution is practically legalized and there is nothing for it but to legalize it officially.
Neadless to say, one of the prerequisites for increasing sex-business is the economical situation in the country. The majority of sex-girls are from the Russia provinces and from former Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, Byelorus, and others). It is difficult there to find jobs even for men to say nothing of young women, especially if they are unmarried moms with one or two children to support. Though some people think that prostitutes earn a lot of money, the reality is quite the opposite. Through their hard and risky work the majority of the girls earn just enough to make ends meet.
A street story from life Russian prostitutes.
A young man, who looks unfledged and wearing hardly showing moustaches, comes to some 'prostitute place'. Everyone is ready to go with this shy cherub. Someone was chosen. A little later they came to a flat with many icons and lighted candles. There was a coffin in the center of the room. The angel-like young man required his sex in the coffin.
The girl was in a shocking state but there was nothing to do and they had the sex in the coffin. After that he said something about sacrifice and getting out his knife from under the pillow he moved it over the girl's body preparing to kill her. The frightened girl had begged him to give her some drink before she died. Fortunately, she managed to make him a drunkard run away.
Beautiful and easy life?
The people like this young man live close to us. An acquaintance of mine once said that we should be thankful to prostitutes because they remove stresses from idiots. The sex-business is not well paid at all. The average pay is usually $100 and the girl gets only 30-50%. Unlike in England our girls seldom work by themselves. The organizational structure is like this: there is a southerners who deals with the militia and settles some other problems, there is a "mummy" who is the link between the girl and her client.
"Mummies" of the Russian prostitutes.
The work of the prostitutes depends on "mummies" in many ways. They recommend the girl to the client, pay her and take care of her health. There are such "mummies" who search the girl's personal things and captured the money with which the client has tipped the girl. They are absolutely indifferent to their state and their health. But there are others who help the girls and give them literature on disease-prevention to read. Because the girls, who have just entered the business, have got practically no information about it.
This situation is quite like this:
- Would you like to read about AIDS?
- Well, I don't know…, may be. Is that a disease?
- H'm! Well, do you make use of condoms?
- Not always…But if a client tips me, of course, I do…
Such are things with elite places but in some ordinary points sex may be paid with a packet of cigarettes, a bottle of wine, a doze of drugs. The word "condom" is used there as often as the word "retrospective'. Normally, the prostitutes come to learn about AIDS and other diseases not from literature but from their analyses when they get into hospitals.
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