Prostitutes Of Praia de Iracema

Praia de Iracema is on the coast of Fortaleza, northeast of Brazil. It used to be the cultural cradle of the city and the spot for intellectual people to go and have fun. That was ten years ago. Praia de Iracema, now, had turned into a sex exploration point.

The big change starts at 11p.m., when streets, empty during the day, fill with girls and tourists searching for something beyond healthy fun. Sex is the circulating currency and drug trafficing runs in parallel. Different from the period when the night life in Praia de Iracema was spread for all the extension of the beach, the lively area is restricted to two or three blocks. The remaining portion is abandoned.

The streets are narrow and where the distance between one corner and another is not bigger than eight steps, three night clubs disputes the public. Most of them found an irresistible way to attract the masculine costumers: good looking young girls wearing seductive outfits are in the entrances and sometimes in the middle of the street, approaching men and trying to convince them to enter the place.

Inside the night clubs, drunk foreigners dance and kiss the girls and spend loads on drinks and cigarettes. The entrance is normally free for women, but the drinks inside are absurdly expensive. So, it is only normal to think that the young girls would get in for free, invite the foreigners in so they spend a big amount of money on drinks. The club/bar owner wins, so do the girls.

The idea I got was that everyone was just having lots of fun. Pretty girls dancing, drunk guys trying to dance with them. But what is really going on in there? Are those girls prostitutes?