Prostitution boom in Andalucia

Spain

SPAIN - THE Andalucian Association for Human Rights (APDHA) in Almeria has reported that more women are becoming prostitutes due to the economic crisis. The association attends more than 500 women in their Attention and Sanitary Mediation Programme for Women in Prostitution. They have seen that there are more women entering prostitution for the first time, and more of them are locals, as well as Nigerians, Romanians, Moroccans and Senegalese, most of them aged between 20 and 30.

SPAIN - THE Andalucian Association for Human Rights (APDHA) in Almeria has reported that more women are becoming prostitutes due to the economic crisis. The association attends more than 500 women in their Attention and Sanitary Mediation Programme for Women in Prostitution. They have seen that there are more women entering prostitution for the first time, and more of them are locals, as well as Nigerians, Romanians, Moroccans and Senegalese, most of them aged between 20 and 30.

They are earning two euros less per ‘job’ than before, at eight euros. There are also more women arriving from cities such as Madrid and Barcelona where police are cracking down on prostitution and from areas where it has been banned.

The association goes weekly to the areas where the prostitutes are located, mainly amongst greenhouses in old cottages, and distribute condoms and lubricants, as well as helping them access the health service, especially programmes to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.