In a society where consumption is king, there is no end to the pursuit of new gadgets, fancy clothes and cool apartments. But what if you don’t have money? As it turns out, sex can be a currency just as good as the hryvnia or dollar.
Every day, more than 75 new ads appear on the slando.ua ad website offering goods and services in exchange for sex, or vice versa. And that’s just in Kyiv alone.
The most common deal is sex-for-rent, and is offered by both male and female lodgers. “Man will rent a nice apartment for good-looking young woman for regular private dates,” reads a typical advertisement.
Sometimes ads contain empathetic reasoning: “I know how hard it is for young female students to rent a decent place to living in Kyiv,” says the author of an ad published on Jan.30.
He offers to rent a nice apartment for a student in exchange for sex. “Twice a week would be enough,” he assures optimistically. He also notes that he will stay away from his lodger’s personal life and expects her to do the same. No romance is intended, he warns.
Students are the popular target audience for sex seekers. Mature men offer them apartments, new mobile phones and even new wardrobes.
And it’s not that women are keeping silent. Their demands are impressive. Random ads placed on Slando say that young and beautiful women are willing to “take an apartment in Kyiv as a gift” and promise to provide sexual services for such generous men. Of course, both parties are expected to sign a contract.
Men also seek out free apartments. Most are willing to rent from women aged 30 to 55 years, preferably nice looking, but that’s up for discussion. “Not a gigolo,” some of the ads note.
“I can pay in cash, but knowing that there are so many lonely women who deserve care and happiness makes me do this,” claims one of the lodgers looking for a room when asked by an alleged landlady why exactly he chose this way of renting.
Another one, a 29-year-old man, explained that sex-for-rent was his way to finally move out of his parents’ place.
To increase their chances, men point out that they are willing to do some housework, cook, and massage their landladies as much as they would like.
Once an apartment is secured, next come creature comforts. According to numerous ads, a new mobile phone can be had for one, or two sex dates at most.
Some gadgets offered, like a tablet PC or Apple iPhone, cost up to Hr 8,000, which, according to certain websites, could buy two full nights in the company of a professional prostitute.
Cars are on the list, too. Women are seeking, and men are proposing. Payment varies depending on how good the car is. But the variety of sex ads is not limited to that.
Sex currency is also used for education purposes. Men are looking for sex-obsessed female English teachers that would give them private lessons and accept sex as a fee. German teachers are also wanted.
It is even more intense in Moscow, where the sex currency trend has gone completely wild. Hundreds of online ads are posted every day, with people making the strangest offers. Here, sex can buy you a job offer and even a precious little something called propiska – a document indicating you are a Moscow citizen, formally attached to a certain living place.
Among other offers, both in Kyiv and Moscow, there are professional photo shoots, massages, vacations and even swimming lessons. Most of them are offered to females, men having much fewer possibilities.
One particular Kyiv ad, posted on Feb. 2, came from a curious man open to new experiences.
“I am a young and nice man, what can you offer me for sex?” it asks.
Kyiv Post staff writers Elena Pashkovskaya can be reached at [email protected] and Olga Rudenko can be reached at [email protected]
