Every day, and every night, women and men are being paid for sex here in Paris. This is because the April 14 law which fines those that pay for sex, is not working. Eiffel Tower β¦what else? Copyright Marilyn Z. However, not all prostitutes β and I am now referring to both male and female β are the owners of their apartments, and have to solicit for clients on the streets of Paris.
A majority of the prostitutes and I am still speaking of both male and female ones are from Romania and the other former Communist Bloc countries, and from Africa. Once, many had been Chinese from China or Cambodia, or Vietnam and Laos, but the financial situations of these former communist countries have improved, so today, a national of one of these, open a restaurant or a hairdressing salon here in Paris. The French love Chinese food! Since April 14, just 40 men paying prostitutes for sex have been, according to the new law, fined for doing so.
Some had been caught in the act, others when preparing for it. The very first person to have had to pay the fine β he was caught in the act of sex β was a man in his 50s.
He was apprehended in the forest outside the town of Fontainebleau, 68 kilometres 42 miles from the capital. Prostitutes are though saying that because of the new law their earnings are down.
Meanwhile, there where prostitutes do ply their trade, kind hearts drive up in small vans, offering free goblets of coffee and a sandwich. Not to the clients of course, but to the prostitutes. Though never during the annual Book Fair: the prostitutes say that the publishers are all sleeping with each other!
