Moscow men down to bare necessities
Published: 10 January, 2009, 10:32
Edited: 11 February, 2010, 02:11
The economic crisis is driving some Russian men into a very different line of work. It seems the number of Moscow men selling sex is on the up.
Russian Newsweek magazine says that, over the last few months, Moscow police have seen an increase in men selling sex – many of whom are yesterday's high-flyers, who have now been made redundant.
But while business is good for them, their female clients might not be getting all they're bargaining for.
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In France it is similar but somehow different : the men are the customers. At the end the result is the same, sex without love -> building some more vaccum (in the minds and in the facts).
India is said to be doing well.But I don't find fewer 'rent boys " on the Marina beach here. Their number is actually increasing.The link between economic distress and the sex industry is weak ,apparently.