Posted on 12/09/2008 2:49:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
PRAGUE: On a recent night at Big Sister, which calls itself the world's biggest Internet brothel, a middle-aged man selected a prostitute from an electronic menu on a flat-screen television, pressing his index finger against it to review the age, hair color, weight and languages spoken by the women on offer.
Once he had chosen an 18-year-old brunette, he put on a mandatory burgundy terry cloth robe and proceeded to one of the brothel's luridly-lit theme rooms, an Alpine suite decorated with foam rubber mountains covered with fake snow.
Nearby, in the brothel's cramped control room, two young technicians used joysticks to control the dozens of hidden cameras that would film his performance and stream it, live, on Big Sister's Internet site.
Sex is free at Big Sister, but that is not cheap enough for some men. Customers get the cut rate in return for signing a release form that allows the brothel to film their sexual exploits.
Even with this financial incentive, Big Sister's marketing manager, Carl Borowitz, 26, a Moravian computer engineer, lamented that the global financial crisis had diminished the number of sex tourists in Prague.
"Sex is a steady demand, because everyone needs it, and it used to be taboo, which made a service like ours all the more attractive," said Borowitz, who looks more like Harry Potter than a Czech Larry Flynt. "But the problem today is that there is too much competition, too many free pornography sites and people are thinking twice before making impulse purchases, including paying for sex."
Big Sister is not the only brothel suffering the effects of a battered global economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
I guess people are resorting to “do it yourself”
Wouldn’t know it walking down Sukumvit in Bangkok Sunday night.
Prostitution was not even the second profession. Cain also farmed and Abel was a shepherd.
Then they built the Tower of Babel, so construction would probably be the third oldest, unless manufacturing bricks came before that.
Darn, I wonder when “The oldest profession” really started.
about the time someone decided their “brick” needed a “kiln”..
Oldest profession... taxonomy?
What, are you talking about Italian politics?
"A Tax onna me. A Tax onna you. A Tax onna de other guy..."
Gee you think it has anything to do with the asking price there?
.....taxonomy?.....
I tried it for a while but could never really decide if I was a lumper or a splitter and just quit
Oh, That’s GROSS!!! ;-(
Apparently the AdminMod thought so.
BAILOUT?
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