Photos exclusive shows the shameless side of Olympic Host country Brazil, they dont want the world to see.. More photos after the cut
In the infamous Vila Mimosa – City of Tender Love – prostitutes made fliers for the Games, offering “cut-price” sex for 40 reals, or £9, almost half the usual price of 75 reals, or £17. underage girls sell their bodies, in
a city with 12,000 sex workers.
Vila Mimosa, Rio’s oldest and largest prostitution zone, where 3,000
women offer their services in more than 70 bars, has been hit by the
deepest recession in a century.
A flyer printed in English states
that an hour’s sex during the Games will cost 60 reals (£13), down from
90 reals (£20), while a threesome is priced at 40 reals (£9) per girl
for half an hour, and 80 reals (£18) for an hour.
It is billed as the Greatest Show on Earth. But the glitz and glamour of the Olympics is taking place against a backdrop of a city gripped by violence, vice and crime.
Even as billions tuned in to see the action this week, three men – suspected gang members who rule the city’s favela slums – were shot dead by cops in a gun battle in north Rio.
A patrol of the 85,000-strong security forces brought in for the Games were shot at in the Mare favela after taking a “wrong turn”.
But even with discounts, the trade has not been what they expected. It was the same for the World Cup two years ago, when visitors were put off by the prospect of being mugged.
Rio has seen a steep rise in violent crime recently, with 2,000 murders in the first seven months of this year.
Militias now run the litter-covered favela, in the west zone of the city, where the poor ended up after they were evicted from their homes for the Games.
This, and the battered economy, has seen many women end up working as prostitutes, say charities.
Behind Olympic games they don't want you to see (Photos)
Even as billions tuned in to see the action this week, three men – suspected gang members who rule the city’s favela slums – were shot dead by cops in a gun battle in north Rio.
A patrol of the 85,000-strong security forces brought in for the Games were shot at in the Mare favela after taking a “wrong turn”.
But even with discounts, the trade has not been what they expected. It was the same for the World Cup two years ago, when visitors were put off by the prospect of being mugged.
Rio has seen a steep rise in violent crime recently, with 2,000 murders in the first seven months of this year.
Militias now run the litter-covered favela, in the west zone of the city, where the poor ended up after they were evicted from their homes for the Games.
This, and the battered economy, has seen many women end up working as prostitutes, say charities.
Behind Olympic games they don't want you to see (Photos)
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