Young Greek Women Selling Sex For The Price of a Sandwich

 

Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity has pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study showed FridayNov

The study, which compiled data on more than 17,000 sex workers operating in Greece, found that Greek women now dominate the country’s prostitution industry, replacing Eastern European women, and that the sex on sale in Greece is some of the cheapest on offer in Europe.
“Some women just do it for a cheese pie, or a sandwich they need to eat because they are hungry,” Gregory Laxos, a sociology professor at the Panteion University in Athens, told

When the economic crisis began in Greece, the going rate for sex with a prostitute was 50 Euros ($53) Now, it’s fallen to as low as two Euros ($2.12) for a 30-minute session.
Laxos said the some 400 such desperate cases he found may be “nominal compared with the thousands of other sex workers operating nationwide, but they never existed as a trend until the financial crisis,” he was quoted as saying. He said Greek women now dominate 80 percent of the prostitution trade in Greece.

Prostitution is legal in Greece, but very few of the country’s brothels are licensed