Mongolia mining success brings booming sex trade
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ULAN BATOR — Pimps man the park across from the historic Ulan Bator Hotel, popular with foreigners. They are keeping an eye on their employees — about 20 women working in Mongolia’s quickly expanding sex trade.
“40,000 tugrik for one hour,” says one young woman asked about the going rate — the equivalent of about $30.
Prostitution is illegal in Mongolia, but the sex industry is booming, due in part to the explosion of the country’s mining sector, which has spawned a huge mobile workforce of men far away from home.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) says there are almost 19,000 sex workers in the impoverished landlocked country with a population of just 2.7 million — or one for every 140 people..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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