Brazil 2014: Over 1 Million Brazilian Prostitutes Prepare For World Cup Fans

Date: 04-06-2014 9:44 am (9 years ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
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According to the locals, it’s the bar capital of the world, with more than 12,000 catering for the five million citizens of Brazil’s third city. Others will recall Belo Horizonte as the scene of England’s most humiliating football defeat, when a hearse driver and teacher from the US stunned the national team at the 1950 World Cup. But if the 5,000 or so English ticket holders expected here for England’s final group game against Costa Rica in a few weeks’ time look a little more closely, they may remember it for something else. As is the case across Brazil, peer behind the mask and another reality stares back at you.

In downtown Belo Horizonte are 23 brothels, known locally as zonas. They are hidden up narrow staircases between shops in the grim city center, a place so grey, in parts, that you could be in the old Soviet Union except for the scorching sun above. Nearby, in an empty office on the top floor of a shopping centre, a handful of the 2,000 or so prostitutes who work the city are getting English classes from a volunteer in order to cash in on the six matches the city’s Mineirão stadium will host (including one semi-final). All the while, tucked away at the back of an indoor car-park, is Aprosmig – a union for those within the industry in the state of Minas Gerais (the name is a contraction of the “Minas Gerais association of prostitutes”). “For sure [the city's prostitutes] will get more money with the World Cup,” says the fifty something woman working the desk. “In the nightclubs they’ll be earning a lot. It’s normal for foreign guys to look for them, they always do, and now there’ll be more foreign guys. They’ll do very well.”

Inside, pasted to a grubby wall are erotic photographs and charts of the body, notes about diseases, numbers for doctors and timetables for psychology sessions. As the woman potters about, she tells her story, a familiar narrative. Having become pregnant and seen the factory she worked in shut down, she took a job as a cleaner. But the family she worked for put pressure on, insisting they should adopt her child, and she felt she couldn't keep both job and baby, but neither could she go hungry. There was one avenue to walk down. “I prostituted when my child was sleeping,” she sighs. “But it was weird, lying there in a room as guys looked in your door before deciding. I just remembered I had to bring food to my house and I had to pay bills so there was no choice. But I spent my life working in that room. I missed out on so much.


Posted: at 4-06-2014 09:44 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- ngfineface at 4-06-2014 10:05 AM (9 years ago)
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 Grin Grin Grin Grin. Nothing wey we no go read about dis world cup.
Posted: at 4-06-2014 10:05 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- manfred1 at 4-06-2014 10:11 AM (9 years ago)
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I  CANCEL MY FLIGHT TO BRAZIL DURING  WORLD CUP
WATCH FRO TV AT CASTEL  RIVER HOME
ONE  MILLION HABA, THEY WILL RAPE US NOW
BRAZILIAN PROSTITUTES BIG FIRE
LAST 3 WEEKS I TRAVEL TO SAN PAOLO, I KNOW WHAT HAPPEN
THIS TIME NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Posted: at 4-06-2014 10:11 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- dynasty4all at 4-06-2014 10:12 AM (9 years ago)
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WONDERFUL, 4 THOSE OF U THAT WILL TRAVEL, I HAVE QUALITY RAIN COAT 4 SALE, JUST GET BACK 2 ME
Posted: at 4-06-2014 10:12 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Slamking at 4-06-2014 11:09 AM (9 years ago)
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Ooooh
Posted: at 4-06-2014 11:09 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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- winace at 4-06-2014 11:19 AM (9 years ago)
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Hehehehehe go on and multiply. Nothg do una. Lolssssss
Posted: at 4-06-2014 11:19 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- queenbabe at 4-06-2014 12:13 PM (9 years ago)
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Ok
Posted: at 4-06-2014 12:13 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Larry28 at 4-06-2014 12:40 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: ngfineface on  4-06-2014 10:05 AM
Grin Grin Grin Grin. Nothing wey we no go read about dis world cup.
Posted: at 4-06-2014 12:40 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- chicco77 at 4-06-2014 12:59 PM (9 years ago)
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 Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
Posted: at 4-06-2014 12:59 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- dareper at 4-06-2014 01:46 PM (9 years ago)
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Ok na, make I file my odegimgim(penis) wella b4 I travel to brazil cuz na fire for fire for there. If our strikers no fit fire score goals me go fire my own oo. I swear
Posted: at 4-06-2014 01:46 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- beneno at 4-06-2014 01:52 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: dareper on  4-06-2014 01:46 PM
Ok na, make I file my odegimgim(joystick) wella b4 I travel to brazil cuz na fire for fire for there. If our strikers no fit fire score goals me go fire my own oo. I swear
bros no go fire and download wetin you no go fit delate from body oooo  Roll Eyes  Roll Eyes  Roll Eyes  Roll Eyes
Posted: at 4-06-2014 01:52 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- okilo101 at 4-06-2014 02:16 PM (9 years ago)
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K
Posted: at 4-06-2014 02:16 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- dickman2 at 4-06-2014 02:28 PM (9 years ago)
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just brazil oooooh..benin girls never show oooh..if una add 500.000 benin girls join them ,,,wahala dey for that area oooh..
Posted: at 4-06-2014 02:28 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- dickman2 at 4-06-2014 02:31 PM (9 years ago)
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benin girls go takeover the business if the time come..with low price....some dey take bottle of beer for one round...them go fight them self there..
Posted: at 4-06-2014 02:31 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- dickman2 at 4-06-2014 02:33 PM (9 years ago)
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brazil go win the world cup..than benin girls go win the ashawo cup...cup na cup..
Posted: at 4-06-2014 02:33 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- Abubu86 at 4-06-2014 02:47 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: dickman2 on  4-06-2014 02:28 PM
just brazil oooooh..benin girls never show oooh..if una add 500.000 benin girls join them ,,,wahala dey for that area oooh..
Grin
Posted: at 4-06-2014 02:47 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- schmit at 4-06-2014 03:09 PM (9 years ago)
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Guys pls protect urselfs
Posted: at 4-06-2014 03:09 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- Donsagacious at 4-06-2014 05:12 PM (9 years ago)
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Wahala Dey... I swear!

Posted: at 4-06-2014 05:12 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Nicksam at 4-06-2014 05:16 PM (9 years ago)
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IS NORMAL
Posted: at 4-06-2014 05:16 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- princeokrex at 4-06-2014 05:47 PM (9 years ago)
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    Tor, HIV, tobaclosis, gono, staph etc de warm of for una zalan. Mammy wota de recruit dey wait for una too. Make i chew my remaining goro
Posted: at 4-06-2014 05:47 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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