Vagina rental business in Moscow booming

CNN:

Young women in bright miniskirts and high heels line up to sell themselves in the dingy back streets throughout the Russian capital. Moscow's illegal flesh markets are flourishing, with up to 30 women at each pickup point, or tochka, standing in order of price for the night.

Customers light up the lines with their car headlights and are asked to pay between $100 and $700 for a woman.

Aid workers for groups fighting for women's rights say Moscow is witnessing a surge in prostitution, including forced prostitution, as a result of Russia's booming economy.

They say thousands of young women are made to work as sex slaves on the city's streets, unable to escape from the ruthless and violent criminal gangs who traffic them. Watch Moscow's thriving sex trade »

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If they were in the US the story might say they are working in the vaginal rental business because the economy is in a slowdown. The fact is that this business takes place in good times and bad times and only the pricing changes. It is evidence of a moral decay in Russia where mobsters have replaced some of the KGB in intimidating the people. The Russians have a real problem with organized crime and they do not have a Rudy Giuliani ready to take it on.