Region: The Political Economy of Prostitution
The Sofia Echo | 18th June 2010

A look at how the recession has affected Bulgaria's sex industry

Bulgaria’s sex industry was hit by the global financial crisis in 2009, leading to a reduction in fees for services, according to recently-released research by the Sofia-based Centre for the Study of Democracy.

In 2008 the charge was 60 leva, but this dropped to 40 leva last year. Still, if self-declared involvement as a client of the sex industry can be believed, about six per cent of Bulgarian men went to prostitutes in 2009.

Bulgarian-language media quoted Tihomir Bezlov, an expert at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, as describing the Bulgarian market for paid sex as of "significant size"...

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