"I want to win Olympic gold in sex": a prostitute from Rio dreams of finding a husband at the Olympics

23-year—old Juliana is one of 12 thousand prostitutes who are going to make a good profit on customer service during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She even raised the prices to earn more money. Prostitution is legal in Brazil, but it is expected that the police will take some "severe restrictive measures" against sex workers. Girls find clients through the social network Facebook and the popular dating app Tinder. Juliana says that her colleagues are very excited about the upcoming competitions. "This is a good opportunity to earn money and find a way out of the vicious circle of such a life. I hope to meet an athlete who can take me far away from here," she said.

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Sitting in a bar on the famous Copacabana Beach, prostitute Juliana calls the Olympic Games a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to earn decent money and chat with a lot of men from all over the world.

Her revealing swimsuit leaves no room for imagination. A 23-year-old girl pouts her lips covered with bright pink lipstick and declares: "People will come to my city to win Olympic gold, but at the same time their arrival will make me rich and make me a winner."

Throwing her head back and laughing, she adds: "I would like to take Olympic gold in my business during the Olympics, but the competition is too great."

Juliana, who works with clients under the pseudonym Bruna, believes that the expected measures of the authorities in relation to sex services will not bring her and her colleagues problems. "Why should I worry about the police? There are many police officers among my clients. For girls in Brazil, prostitution is quite an acceptable thing, it is an easy way to earn good money in difficult times. There are certain problems with employment in the city, everything is very expensive, and in general the economy is not in the best condition."

Juliana looks around Copacabana with a line of hotels in the distance, which she calls her workplace, and then says: "I usually work three nights a week, serving four clients daily, but on the days of the Olympics I will try to work every day."

In broken English, Juliana explains: "Clients don't pay me for talking, so my English level is not a problem for them." According to the girl, she has earned several thousand dollars since she quit her job at a beauty salon about a year ago and began doing what she defines as "escort".

"Once I was paid 2 thousand dollars for a night with a foreigner."

Her parents don't know anything about her daughter's current occupation, they still think she works in a beauty salon. "I like what I do. I can provide myself with a good life: I have a car, an apartment, a computer and a phone, but without this job I would only have a mobile phone. I am learning English and I want to travel, such a life will give me the opportunity to do it. Many people from other countries do not understand us, but no one here looks at us with contempt. Prostitution is a perfectly acceptable profession in Brazil," says Juliana.

Juliana says she finds clients using Facebook and the dating app Tinder, as well as through ads. She is not at all worried about the danger that a meeting with a particular client may pose. "Locals can sometimes be aggressive towards girls, but foreigners are usually obsessed with fantasies about sex with a Brazilian woman, so they almost always behave extremely peacefully."

"Among my regular customers are Brits, Americans, Germans and Italians. I have already worked with one athlete once. This is the goal of many of my colleagues," Juliana said. Then she looked around the beach, where several girls were lying in revealing bikinis, and recognized them as her colleagues.

Juliana jokes that her dream is to repeat the fate of the heroine Julia Roberts from the movie "Pretty Woman", according to the script of which a wealthy businessman falls in love with a prostitute and gives her a new life.