By Konstantin Marrach
Millions of Germans have been feeling the price increases for months when they go to the supermarket, fill up their gas and pay their electricity and heating bills. The expensive crisis hardly stops at any industry. The red light also writes red numbers, so to speak.
A survey by the networkBuy meAccording to the current price increases, one in four sex workers is feeling the effects. 26.8 percent say that the crisis is bothering them. Ascending trend! 37.4 percent of the escorts stated in the survey that customers would try to negotiate prices down because of tight wallets.
Almost every second prostitute (44.9 percent) is very worried that clients will spend less money on erotic services in the future. This is probably also due to the fact that every fourth sex worker (26.9 percent) has already increased their prices. For a good one in ten, the costs increased by more than ten percent.
12.8 percent of women who work in the red light industry assume that they will have to pay more for their offer. After all: 60.4 percent of sex workers have not yet increased their prices.
And what do the suitors say? According to the survey, 26.2 percent of men have to save money when buying sex in view of inflation and the energy crisis. And 27.3 percent of those surveyed have heated less in the last few weeks and months in order to have more money for visits to brothels…
It was also asked how much money the clients currently spend on erotic services per year. 34.4 percent have set an upper limit of 1,000 euros. 26.5 percent invest only 500 euros in twelve months and 17.5 percent only 100 euros in total.
Only a good one in ten (12.7 percent) is still willing to spend up to 5,000 euros for prostitutes or erotic masseuses in 2023 in view of the expensive crisis. 4.6 percent of clients are so financially independent that they want to invest more than 5,000 euros.