How much are prostitutes in Ukraine
The cost of services of Ukrainian priestesses of love in national currency over the past four years has grown on average by 1.5 times from strength. And given the fall of the hryvnia against the dollar by three times - in hard currency it even decreased. The reasons for this lie in the laws of the market. As a kind of service sector, prostitution is on the decline, along with the entire Ukrainian economy.
How much does love cost
More precisely, sex. Its price in Ukraine is low - from about 10-15 dollars per hour. This is of course the average temperature in the hospital. The cost of services of Ukrainian prostitutes varies greatly depending on their class and on the region of the country. We used the data of the popular in Ukraine Internet portal HOT-LOVE UKRAINE for 2019.
As a starting point, we took the tariffs of the most common group of priestesses of love - relatively inexpensive, working in apartments under the roof of pimps. Here services start from 300-400 hryvnia per hour or 1800-2400 per night. The most expensive of this category can request a thousand hryvnia per hour.
Interestingly, the lowest and highest prices are in Kiev. Here you can easily find a girl with an apartment for 300 hryvnia. And there are many of these, although this is not always the youngest and most beautiful contingent. This happens because of the biggest offer in the capital - after all, whores from all over the country flock to it. But the most luxurious ladies and sophisticated services are also here.
But in Odessa and Kharkov, offers of 400-600 hryvnia are much less than 800-1000. And the price of 300 hryvnia is not found even in Kherson, Nikolaev and Zaporozhye. In small regional cities, a standard hour will cost a client an average of 500 hryvnias.
Prices for departure (if this type of service is offered) are more expensive.
Elite courtesans
A higher place in the hierarchy of priestesses of love is held by individuals, female escort workers and a contingent of brothels. This division is largely conditional: the first two categories are generally difficult to separate from ordinary prostitutes with an apartment. But, as a rule, these are younger, more beautiful, and often not stupid girls who provide non-standard services. For example, accompaniment, which requires certain social skills, sometimes in not the lowest layers of society.
An escort in Kiev or Kharkov will cost a client from 500 to 1000 (sometimes more) hryvnias per hour. Moreover - without intimate services. You have to pay for them separately. A night with an escort or an individual - from 3000 hryvnias, and maybe up to 10 thousand.
For brothels that are located in Ukraine under the roofs of cafes, restaurants, massage parlors, beauty salons, etc., no data are available. Their owners, unlike ordinary prostitutes, do not place advertising. Information was published that such establishments serve the narrow contingents of elite customers. And, as a rule, it is impossible to enter from the street without a recommendation. It can be assumed that the cost of services there is the highest. Perhaps the citizens of Ukraine will someday recognize her. If prostitution is legalized, as suggested by some MPs.
Cheap whores
The lower pole of the sphere of intimate services is street moths. Such ladies do not place ads on the Internet, but wait for customers on the streets, in parks or on roadsides. Here an hour (or one full sexual intercourse) will cost the client about 250 hryvnias. Oral sex - 50 hryvnia. Outside the city, intimate services are even cheaper. But the representatives of the oldest profession here are the most, frankly, shabby.
Moreover, in the process of a career, many priestesses of love can visit both the top and the bottom of the professional hierarchy. It depends on personal successes and problems. As well as the location and luck of the pimps, their ability to find a common language with the roofing structures.
Needless to say, almost all Ukrainian prostitutes work with pimps who are given up to 50% of the money received from clients. Amateur performances in this area are not welcome. Dodgers from the roof can end badly or simply disappear. After all, prostitution is not accidentally considered an area bordering crime.
Come on, it's cheaper
The most amazing thing is that the price of services in the intimate sphere has almost not increased since 2013. By eye, the increase is not determined: the lower and upper price limits are almost the same (maximum - slightly increased). Unless there are more more expensive offers. But at least it’s impossible to calculate exactly: the statistics of prostitution are not kept for obvious reasons.
So it turns out that if sexual services went up in hryvnia, say, one and a half times, and the national currency dipped three times in four years, then in Ukrainian hard currency, Ukrainian girls became about half as cheaper. This closely coincides with the fall in the average salary in Ukraine: from $ 450 in 2013 to 250 in 2017. Prostitution accurately responded to market fluctuations. After all, the state does not fit into this sphere with its artificial initiatives. Thanks to this, the accessibility of intimate services, unlike, for example, utility services, has remained at the same level for Ukrainians.
Thailand's fate no longer threatens Ukraine
But what about foreigners? Indeed, for them, Ukrainian workers in bed labor have become even more accessible. 15 dollars (the lower limit in Ukraine) is the price of prostitutes in India, Southeast Asia (and even not everywhere), the poorest countries in Africa. $ 50 - the average price of a decent Ukrainian prostitute - Singapore, Hong Kong, Central Asia (not everywhere), Latin America. Women of the European race cost from 50-60 dollars (Central Europe, some US states) - up to several hundred dollars per hour (Western Europe). And they mean inexpensive prostitutes. It would seem that Ukrainians got an undeniable competitive advantage.
However, the forecasted by many of the transformation of Ukraine into a country of sex tourism did not happen. Nobody considers sex tourists either, but they certainly haven’t become any more. The reason for this was the socio-political instability, fighting in the east, a wild surge of crime, the spread in society of violence and cases of the use of weapons. Many foreigners are simply afraid to go to Ukraine.
Add fuel to the fire and the deterioration of the work of Ukrainian transport. First of all - aviation, which was most used by foreigners. Over the past three years, the national airline seemed to deliberately degrade the quality of services and make them less affordable, while increasing prices. And also, taking advantage of its monopoly position, it blocked the development in Ukraine of a system of cheap flights with transfers and the entry of low-cost airlines serving them.
Patriotism helps out
The years after Euromaidan brought into the sphere of intimate services new and previously unprecedented forms of activity. There were cases when in social networks volunteers collected money not only for thermal imagers, socks and body armor, but for prostitutes for ATO participants. They also organized the transportation of priestesses of love to places nearby military units in the east. And, of course, they paid for the services of girls from the collected funds. And database participants could use sex for free.
Summary
The poorer the lives of citizens in a given country, the cheaper the labor of a prostitute in freely convertible currency will cost.
The economic recovery from the possible legalization of prostitution in Ukraine will not happen. But more taxes will be collected.