By Tom Wyke for MailOnline. Greece's crippling debt crisis has meant that more women in the European country are selling sex with prices tumbling as low as the cost of a sandwich. A new report reveals that more Greek women than Eastern European women are working as prostitutes in Greece following the difficult years of austerity.
Professor Lazos said that his study, which records the cases of 18, sex workers in Greece, 'reflects a society in denial about the changes taking place. The academic carried out the three year piece of academic research, having previously written about trafficking and sexual values in Greece.
Greek prostitutes argue during a protest held by more than 50 prostitutes in front of a brothel in Athens 04 August Athens municipality had threatened to shut down at least 15 brothels for being too close to churches and schools. Greece's crippled debt crisis has meant that more women in the European country are selling sex with prices tumbling as low as the cost of a sandwich.
Prostitution is legal in Greece and with the fall in wages and rising unemployment, the industry has been growing rapidly. In , over prostitutes in Greece staged a vigil outside a brothel in protest to proposed changes to prostitution laws ahead of the Olympic Games. The Greek government had tried to shut down a number of brothels after they were found to be located close to schools and churches. Only ten of the estimated brothels in Greece are thought to be operating with a legal license.
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