Contact Admin. They say she was 20 years old and was in the country for 15 years Along with four other women, all in their mid- 30s to early 40s, she works from 10 or 11 a. The women watch Russian- language TV and smoke cigarettes on a small patio; another woman works the phones, providing details to the johns: According to estimates, some 15, women are involved in sex work in the Jewish state.
A recent report found that 1, girls under the age of 18 are involved in some form of prostitution here. The Elem NGO notes there are also underage boys and transgender teens involved. Reports on prostitution tend to focus on exceptional cases, such as dozens of men arrested for using the services of an underage sex ring in which a year-old boy was accused of procuring teens.
Others focus on human trafficking, a phenomenon of the s in which thousands of women were trafficked via Sinai from the former Soviet Union. We hear stories about the Hasan Arfa area near Yitzhak Sadeh Street, a warren of tin shacks and garages supposedly overrun by drug users and sex workers. When Emese Benko did a photo essay on prostitution, he concentrated on the most gritty area around the bus station.
He maintains there are brothels in Tel Aviv. Most women do not choose to be prostitutes. There are hundreds of brothels in Tel Aviv. Many of them operate openly, advertising their services on the street with business-sized cards scattered on sidewalks throughout the city by young men. These vividly colored cards usually include suggestive photos or graphics of women and advertise a variety of difference services. Sipping a Bloody Mary at a bar near the beach during a happy hour this past Sunday, I gave it a try.
The age range of the masseuses seems to be about 21 to 34, according to the women who answered the phone all calls but one were answered by a female. Most places had similar hours: Outside 98 Hayarkon Street, an ugly, dilapidated building in an area undergoing gentrification, signs had been pasted to the sidewalk protesting that women worked hour days and serviced 20 to 30 men a day.
