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 I remember I was living in a large French city and could see year after year waves of what we called «Eastern girls» invading street action. I met girls from Hungary, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, but the best ones were doubtlessly Romanian.

I am going to try to write a few descriptions of situation I saw as well as the way I handeled them. I first start with general information, then I will give details about street action and hidden girls I encountered. I first found information in the sexguide of worldsexguide. I sometimes followed the letter of information and year after had to cope with new situations. Just remember a few tips before you go or decide to go to Romania.

Legal environment

Prostitution has been prohibited for years. Yet, its has always been fairly developped. The prohibition started being enforced in 2006. A hooker can get a ticket for soliciting («racolaj» also used in the sense of «passive soliciting» that is just hanging in the street to get customers), breaching public morality or affront to public decency and other kind of legal charges that usually costs 500 leis (about €150 ) at every ticket.

Procurement has very long been ignored by the police and justice that influence the development of prostitution as well as an economyof pay-offs to protect procurers and prostitues. Romanian police chase more procurement than soliciting now.

 

How to find girls ?

Clubs

In 2005, I used to go to a club in middle size cities if I had found nothing after a few days. I used to negociate a girl from midnight till 5 or 6 AM for about 150 € ; After 1 or 2 hours of sex, the girl would be tired and would even argue she only had the smaller share of the money. This time is over, since procurement has been effectively prohibited.

I checked in 2008 all the places from where I had gone out with a girl or in which I had spent time to negociate seriously to go out with a girl. All these places were not only closed but they had been replaced by shops, store or whatever.

Girls hanging in the lobby or bar of hotels

I read the information in a tourist guide about an hotel in Iaşi. When I was there in 2005, I saw no girl looking for customers in lobbies. I also read that big hotels were equipped in the 1990's with discrete and luxuous bars at the top of the lift. I made an investigation this year : this no longer exists. Hotel employees, even the yougest ones will confirm you they know «there were bars in hotels but no loger now».

Escort agencies

I have a list of links that I have never checked. Be aware, escort agencies are procurement. I do not advise anybody to ask for the services of a procurer to find a girl. We had a discussion on the matter a few years ago. Despite some people think that a girl working for a procurer will be enforced to work correctly, just keep in mind they are under the control of criminals who will pay no attention to your interest and will keep the larger share of your money for themselves. Remember this word of a Romanian girl who worked for a procurer : I don't care about the customer's interest. I just care about what my boss wants and he wants money. You will find out eventually that girls working for escort agencies are as expensive as those sent to Western countries.

Taxi drivers

They used to be small procurers taking a small percentage on the turnover of girls. I kept a contact with one who used to do it. He gave me a very good contact in 2005, could not arrange any contact at a reasonable price in 2006, explained me he would just arrange contacts for rich businessmen paying for heavy taxi services in 2007, and he told me he stopped making contact in 2008. Nevertheless, as we kept in touch together, I usually meet him with to offer him a good bottle of wine, then he explained me the new trends of the year. Very usefull in a country where everything changes so fast !

Friendly girls

Only stupid guys think they managed the perfect business with a friendly girl or a girl looking fora boyfriend as well as money. Just be carefull of a shy beautifull girl going to you in a touristic area and asking you «sex ?» who has no accomodation where to go to with you. I know it can feel hard, but stay away from her : she will rip you off.

Street action

It is really developped in some areas but the police is winning on this front in most of the places I know. Nevertheless, it seemed to me the police takes it easy in some places. I found excellent cases sometines. But in most of the cases, the prices are the same as prices in a big French city but they are in lei instead of euros. The service is as bad as in street action in a Western Europe city : girls try to expedite the «party» and they become more and more unpleasant. Yet, this remains the best possibility to find contacts and to negociate something interesting. Girls developped a Romanian clientele as the ones in Western Europe developped a local clientele. They need efficiency especially at fairly low prices. If you are smart and lucky, you can find a girl who will accept a several hours service or even a better service as long as they think they have done their evening. Your best bet should be to be respectful and friendly that is not rude as local people. If they trust you, they can accept to invite you to their home, follow you to your hotel or go to a place further in your car.

Highway action

The first girls I found this way, were gipsy girls hitch hiking to move a few kilometers away. In northern areas of the country, people use to pay the car driver when hitch hiking. As these girls were broke, they usually asked for money just enough to pay the fare and a small profit to buy 2 packs of cigarettes. I could not experience this pleasant way of traveling this year. If you think you can catch just an opportunity, always target a lonely girl (they never propsed sex when being 2). I picked up several people in one time last summer. The white guy explained me in french that the other people were were gipsies, allthough they did not really look like ones. The man paid me in the end while hs grilfriend smiled to me such a way I understood the fare would have been different if she had travelled without her husband and small boy.
An advantage to look for a girl on a road is that most of them are gipsies who go and make the business outside the city far enough to try to make money since their population has very long been rejected from jobs due racism. I met such a girl this year and could see she needed money. But now, girls hanging on the side of highways are hookers more or less controlled by procurers. They sometimes turn up to be the same as those working in cities at night (they are often the same girls who were expelled from city boulevards by the police). This year, I could find a Tatare girl who told me she was a student trying to make money.