Buying Ukrainian Students for Sex

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In my interview with prostitute counsellor Yulia Tsarevska, she stated that as many as half of all girls coming to Kiev from outside the city to study work as prostitutes. I was interested in putting this to the test, with Yulia having told me the most popular way for the girls to attract clients is online. There exist several internet portals, ostensibly social networking / dating sites, where girls can post their profiles and set their own terms. The most popular of these is Mamba.ru.

MambaI register, putting up a photo of the most typical man in his 40s I can find as I immediately take to messaging the girls whose profiles show up upon applying the filter of 18-22. I am interested in finding students, and so ignore profiles with tell-tales such as fishnets, excess make-up and heels, selecting instead the more normal looking girls. The responses come fast, with a high ratio of reply to my message, which reads (posting, once more as alias Richard Jenkinson, 43-years old):

Hi, I’m an American guy in Kiev for a few days, looking for a nice girl to show me around, maybe some more ;))) I can take you shopping, give a present in dollars – let me know if you are interested ;))Mamba

Ratio of response, from a swift couple of dozen send-outs, is initially around 75%. Of those, most messages are simply a cut and paste reply with the girl giving her hourly rate for sexual services, phone number, instructions to call her, and some a stock compliment or other about how much she is into me, Richard. Pretty straight down to business with few frills or pretence.

Some of the girls are open to chatting for a bit, I speak to one whose moniker is Sweet Dream. She informs me her name is Annja, and that she is currently studying to be an interpreter (or intepreter, as she spells it). Early on in our conversation, Annja declares that she is “looking for a sponsor“. I propose her coming to my hotel for sex, and she straight off quotes me a price of $300. Moving on from this, I ask why she works as a prostitute, to which she replies that she is not but “some time I meet with men for money”. Our conversation continues, Annja going on to inform me she feels ‘bed’ (I believe she meant ‘bad’) about what she does, her parents do not know, and that it is purely from fiscal necessity. After a little more conversation and, I guess, figuring me for a timewaster, she ceases replying to Richard’s messages.

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Having sent the same stock message to ‘Ledi’, or Lisa as she subsequently informs me, she quickly responds “interesting”. I ask if she is a full-time prostitute or also a student, to her reply of “I normal girl”, and that she is studying to be an economist. Ledi, goes on to inform me that “I not prostitute”, but, she is willing to come to my hotel for an “erotic massage”. While I cannot get Ledi to agree in writing to full sex, I do manage to talk her up to oral sex, which she informs me “only for oral sex will have to pay extra”. Taking this theme, I ask her why she works as a prostitute, to which she informs me once again that she is not a prostitute, her parents do not know that she is an erotic massager, and that she actually enjoys it. Once again, a conversation tails off, as Ledi loses interest in Richard. I have also, during this time of messaging, received at least a dozen short missives from Ukrainian men, almost all quite straightforwardly propositioning sex.

MambaAfter several more similar conversations, with girls, students, with terms mostly being swiftly set out, and little appetite for interaction beyond that, I receive another reply to my original message, from ‘Kievlyanochka’. This time, for the first time, a girl outright refuses my offer, with a simple, but effective “No, I don’t need your money.” It comes as I’m starting to think that the distinction between bordello and university in Ukraine may be, well, academic. And on that note, I had decided to retire Richard, but logging onto the site a couple of days later by chance, I see I’ve got lots more messages. Most again from men propositioning sex outright. But, one from Elena, 30, simply starts with a smiley face.

MambaI decide it’s time to take Richard Jenkinson in a new direction, from a couched-term solicitor to an outright procurer of sexual services. RJ thus replies to her smiley face and palm tree with a forthright “hi, how much would it be for sex?” Elena replies quickly “$100”, before adding “I’m not a prostitute, but why not?” We chat for a while, in which I ask Elena if she’s sold herself before, her telling me she hasn’t, but she broke up with her boyfriend 8 months ago, hasn’t had sex in that time, and saw no reason to refuse my rather indecent, or at least blunt proposal.

Now emboldened online sexual hunter MambaRichard Jenkinson decides to push on from Elena, and aim his search age upwards, setting the filter to ladies between 30-40. Here, the results are rather interesting. The response rate is lower than the younger girls, but those who do reply immediately offering sexual services, quote substantially lower prices. Where the girls of 18-22 were rarely to be had for under 800 UAH (around $100) per hour, the 30+ bracket come in at around half that, making for what would be a rather inexpensive service.

Of those in their 30s who do knock the now sexual predatory Jenkinson back, they do so in an even more articulate manner than their younger peers. This was choice among the examples, and reads:

Mamba“Hi, American guy. I’m afraid you never will have such amount, even in your the bravest dreams :) And you never will have real relations with real women which can give you happieness. Gum dolls or their alife analog are all what you are worth. Dear. Go to “call girls”! Good luck!”

I decide to stop Jenkinson there, on that pattern of fewer responses, lower prices and more eloquent, albeit slightly bizarre, rejections. Looking back over messages from Richard’s companions on mamba.ru over the past few days, it’s surprising to see how many of them have now deleted their profiles.

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