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Greek Prostitution Soars By 150% As Youth Unempoyment Hits 75% In Some Areas
With Greece suffering the biggest economic depression in decades, all so a few rich men can preserve their wealth and not have their EUR-denominated savings wiped out (even if the alternative means finally being able to rebalance externally using the Drachma instead of forcing internal rebalancing via unemployment and plunging wages), it was only a matter of time before we found out just how humiliating the conversion of the entire economy to a "gray", non-tax paying one would be for the citizens of Greece.
As the NYT reports, in just the past two years, the numbers of Greeks engaging in prostitution as a last course source of income has more than doubled: according to the National Center for Social Research, the number of people selling sex has surged 150 percent in the last two years.
Furthermore, with every business in which there is exploding "competition" and rich client scarcity, it is not just any prostitution, but very deflationary prostitution:
“Five euros only, just 5 euros,” whispered Maria, a young prostitute with sunken cheeks and bedraggled hair, as she pitched herself forward from the shadows of a graffiti-riddled alley in central Athens on a recent weeknight.
Many prostitutes have been selling their services for as little as 10 to 15 euros, a price that has shrunk along with the income of clients afflicted by the crisis. Many more prostitutes are taking greater health risks by having unprotected sex, which sells for a premium. Still more are subject to violence and rape.
Now a new menace has arisen: a type of crystal methamphetamine called shisha, after the Turkish water pipe, but otherwise known as poor man’s cocaine, brewed from barbiturates and other ingredients including alcohol, chlorine and even battery acid.
And with a surge in prostitution come the drugs, and the danger of an epidemic of blood-transmitted diseases, like HIV:
A hit of shisha, concocted in makeshift laboratories around Athens, costs 3 to 4 euros. Doses come in the form of a 0.01-gram ball, leaving many users reaching for hits throughout the day. They include prostitutes, whom Mr. Tzortzinis photographed in a seedy central neighborhood of Athens called Omonia, next to a large police station.
Shisha is most often smoked. But it is increasingly being taken intravenously; because of the caustic chemicals it contains, a rising number of users are winding up in the emergency room. Health experts say the injections are also adding to an alarming rise in H.I.V. cases around Greece, which surged more than 50 percent last year from 2011 as more people turn to narcotics.
For Mr. Tzortzinis, who grew up in the area, seeing women give themselves for as little as 5 euros underscores one of the many horrors of Greece’s drawn-out crisis.
Unfortunately for the country which is terrified to just say no to Europe due to the indoctrinated dread of what would happen if it left the Eurozone, this is only the beginning as the problem is far deeper, and it goes to the root of everything: an entire generation going to waste.
But while the Greek still soaring unemployment rate is no surprise to anyone, it is the youth unemployment that is the problem. And as the Telegraph reports, in some areas of Greece, youth unemployment has now hit a inconceivable 75%.
Western Macedonia in Greece had the highest level of youth unemployment in the European Union, with the number of 16 to 24 year-olds out of work jumping to 72.5pc in 2012 from 52.8pc in 2011, according to Eurostat. Total youth unemployment in Greece stood at 55.3pc last year, more than double the EU average of 22.9pc.
The region, located in northern Greece, has been hit hard by the economic crisis, with total unemployment rising from 12.1pc in 2007 to almost 30pc in 2012 due to de-industrialisation and the migration of labour intensive industries to neighbouring countries, where wage demands are lower.
According to a report by the European Commission in December, more than a fifth of firms stopped trading in the region between 2008 and 2011.
Europe's response to this pandemic of unemployment?
Europe's leaders have called for more action to tackle joblessness in Europe. Earlier this month, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso urged Europe's leaders to come up with "a more ambitious plan to fight youth unemployment" at a next month's EU summit.
"We must give revive hope, specially for young people," he said. "We cannot wait for long, we are all aware this is urgent."
And when hope is not enough, and when these same young people end up as prostitutes, drug addicts or, worst, infected with HIV, maybe they should also hope that a cure for the disease is somehow discovered (and which they can afford).
Why? Just so the 0.001% uberwealthy can continue to get richer and richer courtesy of a year after year of flawed monetary and fiscal policy, even as the real world around them burns.
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Let me make it easy .... there are too many socialist vampire hyenas .... and not enough incentivized entrepreneurs to support their lazy asses ! At the risk of repeating myself .... let me repeat myself from the Oklahoma Tornado thread .... "Humanity suffers a thousand socialist tornadoes every (friggin' .... never make a livin') day !" "The costs of socialism are incalculable .... but we see that they are substantial .... and do much harm to the people !" Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad Protected Art Form World Tour
Greeks will probably welcome the colonels back soon. Military dictatorship, fuck yeah.
As long as it is not sponsored by a certain Uncle Sam helping to foment a Greek Spring that will make matters even worse.
"5 euro - luv ya long time"
Wasn't that the 60s? Man I guess deflation hit really hard there.
I cannot believe that the Greeks have not broken out the pitchforks and guillotines yet. Unbelievable.
I know. It's called masochism. It's utterly pathetic. Meanwhile we have deranged Islamic nut-cases (homegrown mind you) attacking people in the streets eg London
Why the hell are they still in the EU?
Greece could send a shudder to the ECB/Fed/IMF in seconds if they exit. Yes, their their pension accounts will be 0% worth. But...
All death ground you fight!!!
Indeed. But they are still in the EU and the powers which created the mess for the Greeks remain unchallenged.
Only a temporary military junta take-over can fix this long term. The military has a mandate to protect its people from foreign aggression. That is true for Greece as well as any nation on the planet.
The military needs to step in. Clean up the streets and put the politicians and bankers on notice. There are logistics and trade experts within the military who can effectively run the armies. They can effectively run the country.
I know its not everyone's flavor but there really is no option.
Listen up Admirals and Generals. Do your fucking duty.
Sheep love to get slaughtered. Even if you open the gates, they don't run.
Mine run towards me. I'm their Fuehrer. But getting them to understand my plans for global domination and world takeover is a tough exercise. I've showed them the maps and given them the speeches so many times now. All I get back is "Bah, bah, bah". They're great at running and jumping though. Holding a rifle and shooting.. not so much.
boom times for porn industry...lot's of talented hotties apply for work!!
http://www.xvideos.com/video3245096/anal_with_greek_girl_olga
It's higher in D.C.
Not sure of the correlation. The Thai economy has been growing at a strong pace, the Thai baht has been getting stronger over the course of the last 10 years, yet prostitution is available to all, in every province.
Ave. Greek Blow Job Price:
Jan. 2013: 50 Euro
May 2013: 58 Euro
damn inflation
free room comes with free sex here in the land of the unFree.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/8724831160_5c009ab042_o.jpg
I wonder how much fun 1 gold British sovereign will get me there?
You could definitly have one of those reverse gangbangs. Fuck, you'd have so many broads you wouldn't even be able to get to them all.
Prostitution has increased greatly in the US over the past years too. We just call it "running for office'.
That's pimping
Time to short JAL...oh wait, do they fly to Bangkok? Sex tourism has a new destination.
Are there any unionized prostitutes out there? Sounds like opportunity for the union bosses to "fight for higher wages" and "healthcare benefits." Especially, work hazard pay/insurance.
Doesn't Greece have legal and regulated prostitution and brothels? Why are the girls selling on the street, is the supply so beyond demand that ugly chicks can't get a job at a proper, cocksucking brothel? Most places have regular STD testing so that shouldn't be blown out of proportion either.
ohh my ggg!! greek girls apparently are very sexy creatures,and do what they can
in order to fight crisis.
http://tubexvideo.com/greek-girl-fights-crisis-1670683.html
I wonder if Marina Sirtis is effected? Five euro's all day long.
This is the sadist thing I have read. I hope The Germans burn in hell for this. Greece has to just say fuck the Euro, and fuck off Germany.
Greeks need to start hanging their politicians and banksters for bankrupting the country.
The US might have to wait until that reserve currency scam blows up.
(or the cheetos run out)
humans are animals.
Not even.
It looks like it is about time big corps start to opening their businessed in Greece. but two conditions should be quaranteed by the government:
1. Removal of minimum wage
2. Affordabe corporate taxes
When it's done I am first investor in line.
Does this mean the number of people buying sex is up 150%? There are always two sides to a trade.
Nope. Just a handful of horny Turks.
5 euros now, and 5000 euros to cure the vd
All the women in Greece today are prostitutes. Take $50 Euro and very discretly approach a good looking Greek woman you see on the street and whisper to her that you'll give her $50 Euro if she follows you to your room for a fuck. Your odds are VERY GOOD that she will accept.
If she declines angerly, tell her you'll see her in a month but next time your offer will be only be $25.
Hearing about all these women turning themselves into whores when the government has no money to help them is all the proof I need that government was created for the sole purpose of serving the interests of women and effeminate men. The government truely does forcefully TAKE resources from male earners and gives it to women, in turn giving women a false sense of entitlement/security by having them believe that they earned it on their own and that men are useless.
Take that Gloria Steinham.
Coincidentally, Strauss-Kahn will be vacationing in Greece.
Let the generation war begin
I'm old enough to remember conversations that I overheard from veterans who served in WW II. The subject of easy sex in Europe during and after the war came up and one of the younger guys said he couldn't see American women behaving like that. A vet who had been there said, if they and their kids got hungry enough they'd break open like a shot gun for a candy bar. He went on further to explain that not only were they poor but food just wasn't to be had except for extreme black market pricing and there were hardly any jobs. People who had food would hide it and hoard it. Orpahn kids with dead eyes haunted his dreams still. The corpses of the ones he saw especially. He said you can't really understand it until you see it.
Central banks = prostitution.
Meanwhile the wealth of superrich tax evaders with offshore accounts hasn't been touched. The government has been too busy prosecuting the journalist who dared to print their names.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9947034/Greek-La...
TPTB would say that there is plenty of job opportunity for young people.....in prostitution. I am sure the Greek PTB are enjoying this situation and are perhaps some of the biggest customers. Not that they would economize on a good visit to the prostitutes but the gratification of someone from the general populace sucking your cock for €5 would probably give them a lot of pleasure in their fucking twisted minds.
The longer this situation festers and the Greek government not doing anything about this (rounding up the rich tax evading bastards and strips them from their assets) the higher the chance that some fringe political party gets in power after the next elections or the chance of a militray coup.
Looks like National Socialisim will be making it's big comeback soon... Oddly enough through German imposed austerity.
Most of the comments on this reflect ignorance, that is probably a good thing.
Time to make a trip...
The Socialists concern for women is measured in micro-givashitz, too bad they're the dumb bitches that put 'em in office.
Forget Greece LA CA has more whorehouses than medical marijuana shops and Starbucks combined.
Well I've heard about the one Jerry Brown runs in Sacramento. But I hear it has more pimps than hookers and the hookers are getting worn out and diseased.
What is the difference between Greece and the US except time?
PROSTITUTION in a country where the TOUGHEST THING TO DO IS SEPERATE THE MEN FROM THE BOYS
what does it take to seperate the men from the boys in greece... a crowbar
has Strauss-Kahn heard about this ..........
ted the lion of the senate kennedy just arose from the dead to go
It's a popular error to believe that things are cheap in Greece
Last April a friend of mine from Shanghai returned from a 3-day-business-trip from Athen back to Germany and was completely surprised in terms of Greek prices and charges: E.g. rental cars are much more expensive as in Germany but nevertheless he didn't get a brandnew Mercedes Benz but and old, scrappy compact car.
We agreed: That's the big problem in Greece: Too much costs (Costas?) for low, non-competitive service. Same with Taxis etc.... It seemes, that even the omnipresent tax-evasion doesn't have any price-effect.