How much do sex services cost on the track and in the salon where you can book a night with the Mistress and the Slave, how clients choose girls for themselves and why women go for all this.
In the British series The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the most expensive prostitute in London, Belle, enthusiastically talks about her profession and claims that she likes her work. There is a stereotype in Ukrainian society that people do not get into the sex business because of a good life: they say that there is not enough for basic needs, therefore women are forced to sell themselves. Actually, not always.

 

For various reasons, various women enter this industry and to various “points” – cheap and expensive, to elite clubs and to Okruzhnaya. Their services are used by thousands of men. To my call for help on facebook – and I asked men who use the services of prostitutes to tell about this side of life – dozens of people who wanted to share their impressions instantly responded (many, of course, anonymously).

This industry has its own laws and rates. Here, law enforcement officers use the services of those with whom they are fighting. Here you can buy sex for 400 UAH, or you can buy it for $200. Big money is paid here for the right to engage in this illegal business – and small fines for trading in love: 85 UAH if you are caught for the first time, and 385 UAH if you are caught again. It pays off, in fact, with one client.

Geography and assortment

If you ask a resident of the capital where you can rent a girl in Kyiv, you will be called “cult” points – on the Ring Road, on Brovarsky Avenue and on Pobedy Avenue. But the sphere of sex services in Kyiv (and in the country as a whole) is very heterogeneous. You can find girls not only “on the track”. Women work in groups in so-called salons, in private apartments, in nightclubs, or seek clients through online ads and regular dating sites like the popular resource Mamba.

Some work for themselves, others work for someone else. Those who provide services individually, without the help of a “roof” (the girls themselves and clients call such individuals) often cooperate with each other to rent an apartment – for example, for two with a girlfriend. And they can work with three or four people. Or even “family”.

“Sometimes you come and hear that a child is crying in the next room. Then you just turn around and leave,” a young man tells me, a frequent client of prostitutes in the capital. Let’s call him Benjamin. Some of the girls have no one to leave the baby to, so while one works, the other nurses him behind the wall. Then they change.

Many work without pimps, even some girls on the track. And others, on the contrary, have been cooperating with proven pimps for years by mutual desire. Pimps are given a percentage of their earnings. In return, he can provide housing, security and protection.

To touch this world, I go on a night raid in Kyiv with the patrol police. Along the way, they show me how pimps and prostitutes work on Brovarsky Prospekt.

“There’s a car over there,” the policeman points to a Mercedes parked near McDonald’s on Darnitsa. – There’s a pimp in it. Very fat uncle — barely climbs out of the car himself. He has a girl who works here, the three of them live in the same apartment – he, his wife and this prostitute. He’s in his 50s, she’s 22 or so. She never complains about him.”

But there are also reverse cases – when pimps force girls to work for themselves and unfasten their money. To convince them of the need for such protection, they can take them out into the forest and beat them, threaten them with physical violence or put them under psychological pressure. Just the trinity of such “patrons” with my policemen and we catch that night on Brovarsky Prospekt – the men demanded 40% from the priestesses of love.

A separate industry is the so-called salons. In Kyiv, there are entire networks of brothels in apartments. If the girls in one apartment do not fit the client, he is sent to another, says another regular consumer of these services, let’s call him Mikhail. In such places you can find a woman for every taste.

At such brothels, special dispatch girls usually work, who take orders from customers and “scatter” them among the girls. They receive from 50 to 100 UAH for each order implemented in this way. Veniamin names one such place for me – an office in Podil, on the corner of Glybochitska and Kudryavsky Spusk.

“I have a girlfriend, a prostitute in the past. She went to get a job as a dispatcher – I drove her there, – he says. — Dispatchers work like any salespeople. Their task is to interest the client, to sell the goods more profitably.

Requirements for applying for such a job include knowledge of English – so that you can communicate with foreigners. Each girl is given a pack of instructions that need to be learned in order to know what exactly can be offered to the client.

One of the most famous metropolitan brothels is located in the very center of Kyiv, on Basseinaya. This is a Soviet residential high-rise building. Sex services are provided on its upper floors. Residents of high-rise buildings are quite aware of what is happening