Due to power’s inactivity Kiev has for a long time been considered in Europe a popular place for a sex-tour. And there is nothing difficult about finding adult services here. It’s enough to type in a search engine a query needed like ‘prostitutes Kiev’ and choose one of hundreds of offers. However, authorities and police officers try to be just unaware of the problem. At the same time, in Kiev incomes of prostitution (officially prohibited in Ukraine by the Criminal Law, and fancy men should be punished with long prison terms) according to round guesses overcome 5 million dollars of income monthly.

According to police’s ratings in Kiev there are about 3 to 5 prostitutes, about 200 public houses and about a dozen of elite clubs for VIP persons. Attraction of new employees is also on a grand scale. In social networks there is nothing difficult about finding fancy men who promise an easy income.

Such a market saturating needs many investments into advertisement easy to find in night clubs, saunas and hotels. It is enough to turn to an administrator of such an establishment who will at least point you to a stand with glossy booklets, not speaking of a great number of web-sites with a comfortable search and girls to any taste.

The crisis affected prices of sex services very much: 3-4 years ago a price for an hour of ‘work’ was strictly bound to dollar. However, after currency runups prices remained in hryvnas at the same level. They start from 300 and rarely exceed 1000 hryvnas per hour in ordinary bordellos. At the same time on special sites with advertisements from ‘individuals’ one can find offers from 200 hryvnas. There is another category – VIP girls. As a rule, they are expensive prostitutes of a model appearance who work with foreigners. Apart from professional skills they usually speak English which makes their service more expensive.

In Kiev in the Khreshtatik street sex services of students are offered. The fact is interesting that students themselves hand out fliers with phone numbers. On an advertisement bulletin there is a phone number, the flier itself is pink. Our journalists called one number. It turned out that girls offer sex for 400 hryvnas directly at a hostel. Students aren’t afraid of handing out fliers even in front of police. January 12, 2008 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine upgraded a punishment for bordellos’ organizing. However, efforts of law enforcement and deputies directed at the struggle with prostitution are still not very effective.