Lettonie: le scandaleux tourisme sexuel des europeens (Movie discussion)

Have you watched this documentary?

It seems to be coming from Belgium and tells about some Irish guys who were attended to visit Latvia before his friend wedding. They fly by the air tram company called Ryanair and arriving in Riga, they are situated in some "special" hotel where besides striptease and swimming pool, it's possible to get some additional services. All girls interviewed and shown in the movie mostly speak Russian and I suppose they are Russian girls (as you know, Latvia consists of approx. 35% of Russian population). In this movie I only saw one latvian woman speaking, she was a teacher which went to a country side and told schoolchildren why being the prostitute is bad.

There was a big scandal regarding this movie here in Riga, because there was clearly visible the house number where this sluts office was located. Later it became known that this house owners are quite famous people.

This movie has been watched by about 450,000 viewers in Belgium.

I disliked the movie. They shown only russian prostitutes, really, thus they shown only the center of the Old Riga (and they shown other district in another content). It doesn't mean it all is happening everywhere.

Riga's Mayor Janis Birks has suggested all "sex tourists" travelling to the Latvian capital should check out the many cultural values that Riga and Latvia have to offer instead. "Foreigners must be better informed about the city's Art Nouveau buildings and wooden architecture as well as the capital's varied festivities," he says.

Birks would not expand on how the perceptions of sex tourists could be changed but did not rule out, providing sex workers with free culture and tour training.

In the meantime, Riga's police are preparing to investigate a film that has been made about sex tourism in the city. The film, "Lettonie: le scandaleux tourisme sexuel des europeens", alleges that the historical centre of Riga is full of illicit bars and massage salons

The makers of the film claim that it is possible to receive "all kinds" of sex services in Latvia.

Alex Weller, one of the authors of the movie, was interviewed recently by TV3 program "Nothing Personal", were told their team stayed in Latvia for 1,5 months and by this time they were concluded Latvia stays the sex tourism city in Europe. Despite prostitution is not officially legal in Latvia, they are sure you can get each kind of sex service. You can search for information on the Internet, ask taxi drivers or gigolos. The authors of the movie think the local police is just ignoring such cases. Alex paid the opinion as well that Latvia will be prostituted until it doesn't rich the average social level of Europe.

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