Rio sex girl eager to earn gold in her pocket during Olympics

Sitting in a beach bar beside the sweeping sands of Rio’s Copacabana Beach, escort girl and sex worker Juliana calls the Olympics Games a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity to make big money’ and meet men from across the world.

Her skimpy bikini top leaving little to the imagination, the dark-haired 23-year-old pouted her lips scarred with pink, and declared: ‘People will come to my city to win a gold medal at the Olympics but for me it will be the gold in my pockets that will make me a winner.’

 

Throwing back her head and laughing, she added: ‘I want to be the gold medal winner of my “business” at the Olympics but there is a lot of competition…’

Juliana, whose ‘working’ name for clients is Bruna, is one of an estimated 12,000 sex workers who are planning to ‘target’ some 400,000 visitors expected in the Brazilian city during the Olympics and Paralympics in the coming days.

Prostitution is legal in Brazil but the authorities are expected to crackdown on Rio’s famous sex trade, however Juliana is confident that this will not cause her or her colleagues many problems.

‘Why should I worry about the police?’ she asks, ‘They are among my clients.’ She continues: ‘To girls in Brazil, this (prostitution) is accepted by everyone and it is an easy way to make money when it is very tough…there are few jobs in the city, everything is expensive and the economy is falling apart in Rio.

‘Many, many girls here do it because it is the best way to earn fast money and often hard currency. (The US dollar is her favourite)

‘All the girls I work with are very excited about the Olympics, it is an opportunity to make money and maybe find a way out of our life by meeting a boyfriend or a husband – I dream of meeting an athlete who could take me away.’

Drinking from a coconut overlooking Copacabana and ribbon of hotels which she calls her ‘working area’, she said that currently she works three days or nights a week – with an average of four clients a day – she will try to work every night during the Olympics.

Speaking in broken English – she said: ‘The clients don’t pay for me to talk so my English is not a problem’ – Juliana claimed she had earned thousands of dollars since giving up a job at a beauty parlour a year ago to become what she terms an ‘escort.’

She said that she currently charges Western clients up to £100 an hour to go to a hotel with them – local clients are less – although this will increase during the Olympics.

Juliana claimed the highest she has been paid so far was US$2,000 (£1,400) for one night away with a Western client.

Her parents who live in a city north of Rio believe she is still working in a beauty parlour, she said, but she quickly added: ‘I like what I do, I can establish myself for life by doing this, I have a car, an apartment, a computer, a telephone and I would have only the phone is I was not doing this.

‘I am learning English and I want to travel, this life will give me that,’ she said, ‘People do not understand outside Brazil but no one looks down on us here, it is another accepted profession.’

It is estimated there are up to one million people involved in the sex trade in Brazil and brothels are easy to find sharing streets where Olympic officials and visitors are staying.

Some girls ‘work the streets’ and can be seen in their polished high heels, short tight skirts waiting beside the road in small groups at night.

Others work in the clubs bars and brothels, some reached up narrow, filthy staircases guarded guarded by ‘heavies.’ Many are sleazy and a far cry from the glamour of Copacabana.

Juliana said she meets her clients through Facebook, Tinder ,adverts and via the telephone and is ‘not worried’ about the threat posed by clients.

She claimed locals could be ‘violent’ towards the girls but international clients wanted their ‘fantasy’ of making love to a Brazilian woman and posed little or no threat.

‘They have their wives and girlfriends to go home to so do not want trouble here. It will be a nice souvenir of Rio in their minds and I tell them if they want to take pictures of me they need to be careful – but men can be crazy about a woman from Brazil. We like that, it makes them come back,’ Juliana explained according to the dailymail.co.uk.