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Serbia Thinks They Have The Right Stuff For Sex Tourism

August 20, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by | Comment (1)

We really don't think traveling to any country just to visit their brothels is particularly cool, but we did learn something amazing about sex tourism this week: it's worth a lot of money.

According to some Serbian "experts," in quite-near-by Bulgaria, the semi-legalized prostitution industry (other experts say it's illegal, so we don't know who to believe) brings in €1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) a year – and that's a whopping 7.2% of the country's GDP. They don't say quite how much of that cash comes from tourists, but they sure imply that it's a lot.

These same experts are proposing that brothels get legalized in Serbia, so that the country can rake in all the profits of sex tourism. They make the case that "foreigners associated Serbia with pretty women in general," so it would be easy to promote it as a destination for, well, a bit of night-time fun. Call us prudes, but we'll stick to visiting Serbia for its retro communist supermarkets and Rocky Balboa statues.

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I was just talking about this issue you describe with some friends of mine that work as escorts London and the question is: why is prostitution not legal everywhere in the world? You can't stop it no matter what so fight against it and waste financial resources on that?
hilarryburton on April 11, 2011 at 5:05 AM #Permalink

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