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Poverty remains the driving-force behind rising levels of prostitution in the energy-rich state of Turkmenistan, where upwards of 44 percent of the country's population reportedly lives on less than US $2 per day.
"For a certain part of the female population who are unemployed, prostitution is the only means to provide for themselves and their families," Farid Tuhbatulin, chairman of the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights group (TI), said. "Never before have so many women worked the streets or gathered in special places, offering sexual services."
"There is an unprecedented situation in Turkmenistan when [some] husbands, fathers and brothers push their wives and sisters into illegal ways, including prostitution, because they don't have a job and means to get by," Tajigul Begmedova, head of the Turkmen Helsinki Foundation (THF), said from the Bulgarian city of Varna.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the country's subsequent independence, prostitution has continued to flourish during a time Turkmen president for life Sapamurat Niyazov would prefer to refer to as his country's 'golden age', Tuhbatulin added.
But far from golden, much of Turkmenistan is impoverished, despite the country's vast and promising energy resources.
Turkmenistan possesses the world's fourth largest natural gas reserves within a singular national boundary, with estimates of the total gas resource base as high as 535 trillion cu feet and significant oil reserves.
Yet according to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), an estimated 60 percent of the country's inhabitants were unemployed in 2004, with 58 percent living below the poverty line one year earlier. The country's economic statistics were state secrets, with GDP and other figures subject to wide margins of error, a CIA report has stated.
Such facts provide fertile ground for a number of social ills, including both prostitution and drug addiction, both of which continue to grip the Central Asian state of 5 million.
Economic deprivation in the northern province of Dashoguz made the area particularly fertile ground for prostitution.
"There is almost no industry there, so unemployment is high," the report maintained, noting Niyazov had raised the issue of levels of prostitution on a visit there, but declined to discuss the matter further publicly – a common strategy in a country that officially has no problems.
However, prostitution as a business has reportedly expanded in the Dashoguz region with rich (by local standards) Turkish truck drivers coming to the area for cotton fibre.
"The trucks parked on the eastern outskirts of the city were visited at night by women of around 18-30 years," the report claimed. "Residents of local housing blocks said that if they went out on the balcony early in the morning, around 5 am, 'night butterflies' could often be seen leaving the truck cabins and the parking lot as if they were returning home from a night shift," it explained, adding many of these women were earning money to support their families and siblings.
Such reports are not new, despite government efforts to stifle them.
According to an earlier report by the Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), Turkmenistan faced a sexual health crisis as increasing numbers of young women moved into prostitution in order to make a living in the poverty-stricken republic. The drug abuse associated with prostitution and lack of awareness about disease prevention - particularly with regard to HIV and AIDS infection - was leading analysts to voice grave concern.
Heroin smuggled from neighbouring Afghanistan, a major opium producer, has become easily available in Turkmenistan, and is increasingly linked with prostitution.
Meanwhile, asked what the authorities were doing to mitigate the problem, Begmedova of the THF maintained that instead of creating jobs, establishing higher education institutions and developing social infrastructure and rural economy, they restricted all women under the age of 35 from flying to Turkey or United Arab Emirates (UAE) - accusing them of being prostitutes.
(Review # 13417)
- Turkmenbasi Travel Report Dated Added: Wed Oct 24 2001 Submitted by:
There are two clubs in town, the Florida and the Korsar. The Korsar is the better. It has disco music, local beer and 20 or more Russian girls for your pleasure. They range from 5 to 9. The only problem is the bars close at 11PM and last call is 10:30. Get there at 9:00 and make your choice by 10PM or you will miss out! (Review # 4500)
- Ashgabad Escort Review Dated Added: Wed Oct 24 2001 Submitted by:
The Nissa hotel bar is as far as you have to go to meet the Russian girl of your dreams. On a typical evening there will be 10 or more and only 3 guys! The quality is 7 to 9. The price $90 or less. (Review # 4499)
- Turkmenbasi Travel Report Dated Added: Wed Oct 03 2001 Submitted by:
There are two clubs in Turkmenbasi where you can find a girl. First is the Florida club. I found only one person beside me, a woman, and she propositioned me, but I wanted more selection.~~~~The Korsar Disco club is full of very good looking Russian women. Just pick one out of the many dancing there! The only problem is they all get to the club at 9PM and the club closes at 11PM, so pick quickly. They will take you back to their room for fun.~~ (Review # 4399)
- Ashgabat Travel Report Dated Added: Mon Apr 30 2001 Submitted by: Anon
I was in Turkmenistan on business staying in one of the main downtown hotels. I stopped for a drink in the hotel bar. After a bit several girls came in and one very attractive Asian girl came up to me and started chatting. Within a few minutes she asked if I was interested in a lesbian show with herself and her friend. The friend was a tall and slightly heavyset Russian girl. They were both about 20-25. Who was I to say no. We settled on $100 for each of them and they took my room number. They came to the room a few minutes later they apoligized and said that they had been caught by hotel security and had to pay a $15 bribe. They asked if I would still be interested, but I would need to cover the bribe. No problem.
They stripped down and showered off, and insisted that I do the same. In the shower the two of them gave me a thorough soaping with their breasts. We moved to the bedroom and they turned on MTV, turned out the lights, and began the lesbian show. I was a little disappointed that they weren't more into it, and seemed to want to get me involved right way.
They both sucked my cock with a condom and we fondled on another. The Russian was more open than her better looking Turkmen friend. Finally I slipped my cock into the Turkmen. After 10 minutes or so I switched to the Russian they changed the condom. We fooled around for over an hour and they were in no hurry to leave. Finally they ran out of condoms since they switched every time I changed girls. They asked if I had more and I didn't, so I had to finish up with the girl I was with.
The three of us showered up together and they took their time making a show for me of redoing their hair and makeup while still nude. Finally they said goodnight after about 2 or 2 1/2 hours and went off in search of another client. I would say it was a positive experience overall. If you haven't tried it, two girls are worth the double investment. (Review # 3457)
- Aschkhabad Escort Review Dated Added: Sun Jun 25 2000 Submitted by: Anon
Officially prostitution is illegal in Turkmenistan. But in the few hotels of the city you find a lot of girls in the bar. The even ask you on the street if you are leaving the disco alone. I had a girl which was around 5. The fuck, just regular, was not very good. But she allowed to have sex w/o condom because she just had her period. I guess if you look around you can get something better for $ 100. (Review # 1790)
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