Cyprus-Forum.com

[purdey]

Are these places deemed to be respectable in Cyprus. Should they be on the main tourist roads in Cyprus.
Am I old fashioned or are these places run by human trafficers, and frequented by the dregs of society...

No doubt there will be no replies to this post, who would want to be associated with such places, unless of course it is incognito or after dark !!

[Oracle]

I have no association with these places, but I cannot resist the challenge of a provocative thread.

I don't know that they are / should be on the main tourists roads as I have only noticed one the whole time I have been in Cyprus, and that was pointed out to me some 20 years ago ... still going, by the looks of it, although it could do with a lick of paint and some new light bulbs.

They obviously serve a purpose or two.

Clearly they attract customers; and from my point of view, wishing to live-and-let-live, it keeps retrogrades off the streets and away form other establishments...

They would probably say the same thing about Laura Ashley shops ... keeps us floral-print, blue-stocking types off the pavements.

(P.S. Does anyone know where there might be a Laura Ashley shop here in Cyprus ..... as I am fed up pounding the pavements. )

[tessintrnc]

Oh Oracle - you aren't a chinz chucker are you???

Purdey - there are quite a few "night clubs" here with dubious names like "foreplay" and "golden girls" etc etc there are a few on the outskirts of Nicosia but most are set back a way off the roads. Prostitution is actually illegal so these Girls are called Hostesses and allegedly only serve drinks!!!! The girls are brought over and after a few tests at the hospital are then put to work. Its a disgusting trade altogether. I think that there is a place for prostitution, as Oracle says - it keeps it off the streets as it were, but I don't like pimps. If a girl wants to earn money for herself fair enough - but I hate the way these Girls are kept more or less like prisoners

[Nikitas]

To give a cultural background to the so called "cabarets". In Cyprus they are places where clients are royally clipped on the promise of sex. They are neither brothels nor true cabarets. As long as there are people who want to show off their wallets in the company of scantily dressed ladies there will be places like these.

[purdey]

What a PC approach Phoenix. The difference been prostitution is illegal in Cyprus where floral print isn't.
I suppose these clubls do keep a certain element off the streets but they also do not disuade the joyfull punter from approaching the girls of the same nationality on the beach and in streets and bars.
One further point related, British Easter break in Paphos, family approached in town by spotty youth,rams leaflet into mans hand advertising " topless bar, pole dancing, first drink free" lovely just what you want on a family holiday.

[umit07]

Well Purdey if I had to speak for the north, the cabarets employ around 400 woman. There is a cabaret within reach everywhere. NO woman would want to be in this trade unless they were really desperate, I do not agree that most of these woman don't know what they are gonna do once they get here. If deemed competely illegal the business would go completely underground, with no control over it whatsoever. In the north the people working in thse places go through medical check ups every fortnight any found to having any STD's are deported. The men going to these places aren't just the unmarried either, it seems like woman don't mind there husbands gonig to these places from time to time. I remember from high school that is was also a time for a sort of celebration when a virgin guy went to a cabaret and lost his virginity, the whole school would hear about it and girls would compliment you aswell, it was something I really found hard to understand.

[DT.]

Well Purdey if I had to speak for the north, the cabarets employ around 400 woman. There is a cabaret within reach everywhere. NO woman would want to be in this trade unless they were really desperate, I do not agree that most of these woman don't know what they are gonna do once they get here. If deemed competely illegal the business would go completely underground, with no control over it whatsoever. In the north the people working in thse places go through medical check ups every fortnight any found to having any STD's are deported. The men going to these places aren't just the unmarried either, it seems like woman don't mind there husbands gonig to these places from time to time. I remember from high school that is was also a time for a sort of celebration when a virgin guy went to a cabaret and lost his virginity, the whole school would hear about it and girls would compliment you aswell, it was something I really found hard to understand.

still not lost that virginity then umit?

[Oracle]

What a PC approach Phoenix. The difference been prostitution is illegal in Cyprus where floral print isn't.
I suppose these clubls do keep a certain element off the streets but they also do not disuade the joyfull punter from approaching the girls of the same nationality on the beach and in streets and bars.
One further point related, British Easter break in Paphos, family approached in town by spotty youth,rams leaflet into mans hand advertising " topless bar, pole dancing, first drink free" lovely just what you want on a family holiday.

Sorry purdey .... my naivety has meant I have been misunderstood (by tess also!).

When I said "keep retrogrades off the streets", I did not mean prostitutes as I had not fully grasped that Cabarets are brothels ....

By "keep retrogrades off the streets", I meant those Gentlemen that wish to be entertained by ladies / transsexuals etc and would otherwise be leering at women of the general public ..... (although floral prints and blue-stockings are a natural safeguard to such unwarranted attention also).


So as I am growing out of my floral prints from the UK (due entirely to easy-supply of Loukoumia) ... I repeat my request for a Laura Ashley shop here in Cyprus.

..... actually continued consumption of Loukoumia could double up as another safeguard ....

[purdey]

DESPERATE is the word Umit. While I am sure not all are unwilling there are those that have been sold into the trade, by family or friends. We have the same in the UK unfortunately, some as young as 12, who are purchased or tricked abroad and then find themselves in prostitution.
Yes they will smile and perform, but someone is always watching or knows there family back home. Maybe illegal prostitution is not as bad as I thought, maybe these girls enjoy their life and have a wonderfull time, maybe even the 12 year olds enjoy it ????????????????????????????

[umit07]

Well Purdey if I had to speak for the north, the cabarets employ around 400 woman. There is a cabaret within reach everywhere. NO woman would want to be in this trade unless they were really desperate, I do not agree that most of these woman don't know what they are gonna do once they get here. If deemed competely illegal the business would go completely underground, with no control over it whatsoever. In the north the people working in thse places go through medical check ups every fortnight any found to having any STD's are deported. The men going to these places aren't just the unmarried either, it seems like woman don't mind there husbands gonig to these places from time to time. I remember from high school that is was also a time for a sort of celebration when a virgin guy went to a cabaret and lost his virginity, the whole school would hear about it and girls would compliment you aswell, it was something I really found hard to understand.

still not lost that virginity then umit?

Where did you get that from?