Juliana, 23, is one of 12,000 sex workers targeting visitors to Brazil
games... She has hiked prices for Olympics and believes she will make
huge money. She even hopes 'of meeting an athlete who could take me
away'...
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Her skimpy bikini top leaving little to the imagination, the dark-haired
23-year-old pouted her lips scarred with pink, and declared: ‘People
will come to my city to win a gold medal at the Olympics but for me it
will be the gold in my pockets that will make me a winner.’
Throwing back her head and laughing, she added: ‘I want to be the gold
medal winner of my “business” at the Olympics but there is a lot of
competition…’
Juliana, whose ‘working’ name for clients is Bruna, is one of an
estimated 12,000 sex workers who are planning to ‘target’ some 400,000
visitors expected in the Brazilian city during the Olympics and
Paralympics in the coming days.
‘Why should I worry about the police?’ she asks, ‘They are among my
clients.’ She continues: ‘To girls in Brazil, this (prostitution) is
accepted by everyone and it is an easy way to make money when it is very
tough…there are few jobs in the city, everything is expensive and the
economy is falling apart in Rio.
‘Many, many girls here do it because it is the best way to earn fast
money and often hard currency. (The US dollar is her favourite)
‘All the girls I work with are very excited about the Olympics, it is an
opportunity to make money and maybe find a way out of our life by
meeting a boyfriend or a husband – I dream of meeting an athlete who
could take me away.’
Speaking in broken English – she said: ‘The clients don’t pay for me to
talk so my English is not a problem’ – Juliana claimed she had earned
thousands of dollars since giving up a job at a beauty parlour a year
ago to become what she terms an ‘escort.’
She said that she currently charges Western clients up to £100 an hour
to go to a hotel with them – local clients are less – although this will
increase during the Olympics.
Juliana claimed the highest she has been paid so far was US$2,000 (£1,400) for one night away with a Western client.
Her parents who live in a city north of Rio believe she is still working
in a beauty parlour, she said, but she quickly added: ‘I like what I
do, I can establish myself for life by doing this, I have a car, an
apartment, a computer, a telephone and I would have only the phone is I
was not doing this.
‘I am learning English and I want to travel, this life will give me
that,’ she said, ‘People do not understand outside Brazil but no one
looks down on us here, it is another accepted profession.’
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