Ukraine’s Prostitution “Disaster"

Terroir on Sunday, Nov 7 2010  

Ever since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has suffered from a booming sex trade. Estimated by police to be worth $1.5 billion last year, prostitution in Ukraine has been exacerbated by the international economic crisis, a weak Ukrainian national currency and fueled by cheap airfare and a free-visa policy for US and EU citizens, and so fosters a sex tourism industry that has persisted for many years. Although illegal, laws prohibiting prostitution have had little effect against criminal organizations and clients; instead, laws punish women working as prostitutes in Ukraine, a country that has experienced a national unemployment rate of 50%.

The severity of the Ukraine prostitution problem is clearly demonstrated by Ukraine’s role as having been one of the world’s largest exporters of women to the international sex trade, at one time worth in the vicinity of $5 to $22 billion. In 1998, it was estimated that more than 100,000 women, mostly minors, had be forced to work as sex workers in the West; at that time, 80% of Ukraine women who had went abroad for better opportunities and employment had no idea they would be forced into prostitution. However, in recent years forced human trafficking in Ukraine has given way to a new generation of women who voluntarily and knowingly enter prostitution, citing the fact that no other choices are offered to them in an environment of debilitating poverty.

This issue is so severe that Ukraine interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko declared on national television that “The country is becoming a paradise for sex tourism before our eyes.” The non-governmental women’s rights group FEMEN has held demonstrations loudly protesting that “Ukraine is not a brothel,” and, “Sex is not for sale.”

From Mop:

Ukraine’s street beauties [streetwalkers] become a “disaster/problem”
Within the former Soviet Union, Ukrainian girls were the best. Compared to Russian beauties, Ukrainian girls are even more refined. Not only are their bodies slim and their faces elegant, their skin color is also fair, clear, and tender. It is because of this that many overseas tourists regard Ukraine as the first destination for “sex tourism” but this has attracted protests from local women’s rights groups who want to explicitly convey to Western tourists that “Ukraine is not a brothel”.

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[ Last edited by  Weelock at 15-11-2010 01:59 ]

Thanks for the post.  I'm not too up on Ukraine and need to do a little research on this.  These photos make it look like a paradise.

Thanks no no no I had my Uknaine Disaster...   
Had once a bad experiance and do not need this anymore.
Beautiful to look at but "do not touch".  Was 3 or 4 years ago in Germany and she told to be a student needing some money (was obviously not true).
Giving a lot of money but got bad service, "not here", "not that"...  just dead fish later on.
Maybe just not representative ?...

this guy i met at a new york city hostel even mentioned that the hookers in Ukraine are much cheaper and better looking compared to those in the big apple.  he had a thing for black girls though because there ain't any in Ukraine.  and that's why he went to new york...

I would have thought that there wouldn't be anywhere in the world were the 'hookers' aren't cheaper and better looking than NYC.

Ukraine road trip anyone ?

There no real detail reports on Ukraine on 141. It's a dangerous place to be especially if you are non-western looking but the more people the safer it is.

I think there was a road trip for western girls to Vladivostok, Russian by a group of 141 guys.  

I have read on another forum there is a sex tour to the Western part of Russian by Japanese. I think it was to Khabarovsk or Vladvostok.


Edit grammer,

[ Last edited by  Weelock at 17-11-2010 06:27 ]

Ukraine and Russia are fine for non Western looking guys. I've been to CHernobly and Russia too. No problems, the problem you may encounter in Ukraine are corrupt cops off the main highways. Russian cops are these days much less corrupt in the south and past the Ural mountains.

Ukraininan cops are very corrupt, just don't stop when they signal you to stop for no reason and you should be fine.

Ditto for a Ukr beauty I had in California a few years back.  All looks and no performance.  I got the idea she wanted the money and did not care a bit about any future repeat business from me.  Hence that was a one shot affair.

Better to stay with Asian beauties anyway.  . .