Legal Situation: Prostitution is illegal (or is it? I have differing accounts, see below).
Subject: Re: where in israel
Date: 16 Feb 1995 01:18:31 GMT
: Don't have any first-hand experience. However, I did see several ads for
: escort agencies in those free city magazines available in hotels and
: tourist bureaus.
There was a tabloid-type TV show a while back during "sweeps weeks" and it
showed Israel escort services but the "kicker" to the story was that almost
all the women were foreign -- I think Russian.
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 20:01:01 -0500
The bars are filled with hookers in the plaza by the main marina in
Tel Aviv. These women usually service the U.N. soldiers off duty from
Lebanon and the Golan. Another landmark for this plaza is the movie
theatre on hayarkon street.
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Subject: Prostitution in Israel
From: an105729@anon.penet.fi
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 01:49:29 UTC
Shalom!
Well, there is lots more to be said (and written) about this subject.
1. Ads in the newspaper. First of all, forget the one English-language
paper ("Jerusalem Post") -- it hasn't got any. Of the two major
Hebrew-language papers, only one ("Maariv") has any quantity of ads,
and then the best day is Friday. They have large ads (graphics, but
no photos), and small 1- or 2-liners; graphics are mostly for escort
services, while the smaller ones are by individuals.
2. Going rates. In Tel-Aviv, it runs from 100NIS (3NIS=$1) NIS=New
Israeli Shekels, but it's not new anymore) for 1/2-hour to 250NIS
or more for an hour. Blow-jobs on a side-street go for 50NIS.
Jerusalem prices are similar.
3. What's available. BJs (but forget about deepthroat), straight
fucking, anal (but at a premium), and sado (for the customer,
NOT the girl/woman). Everything with a condom. Most are young
(19-25), many recently out of the Army. Not at all professional.
Decidedly uptight. A startling lack of 30+ year-old women.
Lots of massage parlors/health clubs. Do cabbies know who/where
to go? I dunno. Lots of young Russian girls/women.
A recent article in one of the Friday papers mentioned that the
Tel-Aviv municipality is thinking about creating a (gasp!) red-light
district, with legal prostitution.
On the whole, after living here for 15 years, I find Israel a very
straightlaced, uptight place. The best bet is going to Eilat (on
the Southern tip of Israel, on the Red Sea) and picking-up on a
European/Scandinavian tourist/volunteer-kibbutz-worker.
Your mileage may vary.
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Subject: Re: Prostitution in Israel
From: an105729@anon.penet.fi
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 20:22:55 UTC
Shalom, Atta!
> thanks a lot for your Israel report! I'll put it on the web during the
> next update.
Great! We get lots of tourists/"trekkers", and, well, fun is fun :)
> I still have two questions:
>
> * do you know anything about the legal situation?
Yes, a little bit. "Prostitution" is illegal; "escort services"
are legal, so are "massage parlors".
> * If you call someone from the Maariv, do they understand English?
Probably -- English is a compulsory subject in Israeli schools,
beginning in the 4th grade, all the way through the 12th grade.
OH! You mean calling someone who ADVERTISES in the newspaper!
<laugh> I thought you meant someone at the newspaper, itself :-))
OK, right; well, they would probably understand (it has been my
experience that the important words are known, although some
[surprisingly] are not, like "deepthroat" -- go figure it).
In fact, whenever I mention the Hebrew version of "deepthroat",
the majority of women "in the trade" get offended, curse at me
(in Hebrew), and slam the phone down! Again, go figure it.
It is not at all like in Europe (as an aside, I was stationed in
Mannheim in the USArmy [Infantry] during 1975-76, and I remember
that the street on which the whores worked, from rooms/windows,
was officially known [on street-signs and on maps] as the
"Penis-strasse")
(as another aside, the major streetwalker area in Tel-Aviv is
in the vicinity of the old Central Bus Station, and one of the
major streets it that area is "Pin Street" ["pin" meaning `penis',
in Hebrew])
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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 23:37:08 UTC
I have a correction on the legal situation of prostitution in
Israel. Prostitution is very much legal. What is illegal is a
second party making money off of it. Pimping is therefore
illegal. Renting an apartment to a working girl is illegal
because the rent is money made off of prostitution. Massage
and Escort services are very much illegal but for the most
part not busted.
This contradicts the present information in the FAQ.
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 12:03:55 UTC
The Russians have definitely cornered the market...it's a well known fact.
It's all tied to the Russian mob
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