My weekend reading includes some local weeklies. Magazines I buy fight for democracy and freedom of speech. Write about corruption. Headlines this week are: "The officials ignore Yanukovich", "How Yanukovich pushes personality cult", "Will Yulia Tymoshenko be jailed?"
But I was intrigued by this headline in Korespondent: "For a vacation in Maldives or Crimea - thousands will pay with sex". The article describes tens of local websites on which thousands of Ukrainians - male and female - post classifieds for a sponsored vaction. The article also gives websites and links. One of the links is: http://tour.bigmir.net/traveler/
Here is a rough translation of few ads:
"Female - 18 years old with long blond hair looks for a sponsored vacation to UAE, Monaco, France or Spain. She prefers a company of a man up to 35 who will entirely take care of holiday arrangements. Requirements for sponsored vacation are: 5 star hotel, paid flights, paid visa support (i.e payment and all arrangements to get Schengen visa) and all other expenses such as shopping covered. The classified also adds "strictly no sex". This young Ukrainian female is available for sponsored vacation end of September. She is also open for sponsored holiday suggestions in other countries for Xmas".
Another classified by female "Juicy" emphasizes: I am not interested (nor excited) by a man who expects a woman to pay for herself. I want that a man pays for me". Juicy does not exclude sex.
The site has men classifieds too. About half of them will happily pay for a vacation. Some in their profile under "Financial status" put "able to pay for all".
The article writer contacted some men who posted classifieds to comment on "strictly no sex". The usual response was: not paying USD2000-2500 for vacation without a test-drive.
Seems the meaning of "vacation money" is also subject to cultural differences and depends on a country.
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