I hardly slept. When orders arrived, I even worked up to 24 hours. I could not cope with that any longer. In China , Xiaoyan was a stay-at-home mother, looking after her two children. But her family needed money, so she left.
People of rural origin in China have reported being denied basic rights and benefits. Leaving the village becomes the only way for rural migrants to secure a better future. After a challenging trip financed with loans from relatives and friends for a tourist visa, Xiaoyan eventually reached Italy.
Hours upon hours of bad posture saw a doctor diagnose her with chronic body pain. Two years ago, Xiaoyan was unable to eat for several days when her face became partially paralysed from prolonged exposure to the cold. In , a man picked her up and drove out of the city. He assaulted and raped her, then stole her belongings. She managed to rush out of the car and grab his ID. But when she went to the police to file a report, she was unable to communicate in the little Italian she knew.
It is easier to get mugged. With a little extra, she might agree to sex without a condom. The interview ends when headlights catch her attention.
A client arrives, her job starts. Meanwhile, seven other Chinese women have appeared on the street. Prostitution is legal in Italy, but organised prostitution — solicitation, whether indoor, on the street or controlled by third parties, is not. Women and transsexuals, mostly hailing from Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Nigeria, Peru and Romania are easy to find online, at massage parlours and on the streets.
He said some women are underage and are forced by their pimps to ask for more money from clients. But regardless of their age, most of the women tend to remain on the streets for a long time, up to eight years.
My husband fell sick in China and I had to pay 60, euros for his medical expenses. Today, I am a widow, I am scared my son might find out about this job. But what else can I do? Others are in about a dozen massage parlours, while more work hidden inside flats.
The hotline works in partnership with governmental and local agencies. There are no exact figures for the number of Chinese prostitutes working indoors. They are usually older than 29 and are considered the most vulnerable group. Their landlords, mostly Chinese, do not question their activities, although in many cases they are aware of them. In the meantime, the Italian police have cracked down on the street action and prostitution-linked online forums. The foreign hot spot is Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland.
He leaves their duplex apartment in the border town of Ventimiglia when clients arrive; some of them have driven all the way from France. Unlike these pros, many house practitioners ignore health risks , Venturelli says. This new wave of second-job sex workers is just the latest of a series of changes that are pushing Italian prostitution indoors.
Multinational streetwalkers share apartments and clients to cut down on expenses and boost revenues, while many massage rooms and beauty parlors now operate as brothels. The closure of brothels in Italy has only moved the practice from indoor to outdoor and now back indoor — but in a bad way.
As legalization takes hold across the country, dealers are looking across state lines for new markets. Online marketing and new at-home tech are turning a solo endeavor into a lucrative side hustle. A Ukrainian woman from Donetsk waves from over the four-lane road to a Romanian on the other side. The blonde Ukrainian is in a short black dress, which clasp the thighs well above the knee, her face layered in mascara.
She is drinking a blue energy drink from a plastic bottle. She has been working the street outside a derelict Italian warehouse for five years. Carmen is clutching a wad of Primitex condoms.
The two women talk about paperwork. How to stay in Italy. On the other side of the road is Nicoleta [not her real name], hitting 25 years of age - from Calarasi, southwest Romania. She has a brown Louis Vuitton-esque bag, push-up bra and is looking to buy a flat in her hometown. Nicoleta wants to send her mother some presents. Right now, Nicoleta has issues in Italy. She is in trouble with the police in Naples, who accuse her of pimping another girl.
An allegation she denies. Carmen came to work in Italy in when she was She started out as a domestic, looking after an old couple for two years. When they died, she used her connections to get another job, before landing work in outreach with Dedalus. She understands the situation women from Romania find themselves in: girls come to Italy and care for old people day and night, but the pensioners can die after two weeks - and the women have nowhere to live.
Because it's very easy to slip into this. This is where a stocky late someting Bulgarian stays with an Italian trans friend. The Bulgarian complains to Carmen that since she brought her three children to Italy, they have started misbehaving at school and at home.
The trans shakes her head in concern. Further down the street is a parade of giant inflatable toys. By day, a vendor sells these to seaside tourists. He has left the plastic ducks, sharks, dolphins and paddling pools on the street, confident no one will steal them.
They are now the nocturnal backdrop to an Albanian in a push-up bra and miniskirt. Many are trafficked in loan shark scams, so are in debt at home in Nigeria. Once they pay their debts, they are free, so they trying to attract as many clients as possible. Another girl, Sara, also from Calarasi, stands under a flyover, below a sign warning drivers that if their vehicle is over 4.
Carmen talks to her. She says that once she owned a restaurant in Naples and wants to start this business again. Until then, she is looking forward to a vacation, somewhere in the Romanian mountains.
Under the flyover a battered Fiat is parked with its hazard lights on. A man in his late 50s, crouched, is waiting inside. Sara wants to talk. Carmen visits the street three times a week.
When she began in there were mostly Albanians, and then came the Romanians, from the cities of Calarasi, Bucharest, Craiova and Bacau. The majority start working as prostitutes when they are 17, and many already have kids.
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