Russian sex workers are heading to the front lines where the war is taking place, making an incredible £13,000 per week. However, the soldiers, dealing with the traumatic effects of war, seem more interested in seeking emotional support rather than engaging in physical intimacy.
Close to the Russian war zone, there has been a significant increase in the sex industry. This surge is attributed to soldiers who are seeking a release from the mental and emotional toll inflicted by the violent conflict they have been exposed to.
The women, who relocate to “service” the troops, say they can earn up to £13,000 a week working in, or close, to the dangers of war.
It is evident that Russian soldiers are willing to spend their considerable salaries and compensations for war-related trauma and injuries on sexual services. Some soldiers feel a sense of urgency, understanding that they could lose their lives at any moment.
Some romping even takes place in the trenches while bullets, shells and drones fly overhead – all for the women to provide “intimate services” to Russian soldiers, Verstka independent media reports.
Outside of the trenches, more sexual activity is said to take place in the military camps immediately behind the deadly frontline.
Corrupt commanders reportedly take bribes from prostitution rings to allow the frontline sexual contact.
Sex is also apparently available to Putin’s fighters in war zone towns and cities, like Luhansk and Donetsk, annexed from Ukraine by the Kremlin dictator.
But prostitutes serving the troops have said that “every second order” they receive is just for one-on-one talks with soldiers clearly struggling with trauma, regret, and exhaustion from prolonged deployment.
This typically costs troops around £130 an hour.
Despite the women appearing to provide emotional comfort to the scarred troops, military cops are said to extort soldiers caught with them, demanding bribes or sending them on suicidal assault missions as punishment, reports claim.
A new study by Verstka – exploring the flourishing sex industry due to Putin’s war – found that some of his soldiers are blowing their £26,000 payments within weeks for sex worker visits.
One explained: “They can kill me tomorrow, and I have three million [rubles] on my card. Let’s spend it.”
But some sex workers revealed that many troops just want to “sit down and talk”.
One said: “The fighters don’t see anything except men – and corpses.”
Another revealed: “He pours out his soul, how hard it is for him, how tired he is of it all, when will it all end.
“One time, my friend and I sat there for eight hours, drank, talked, and there was no sex – but they still paid.”
A woman named Maryana added: “Almost all of their stories are about comrades they didn’t save, but could have, didn’t bandage them, didn’t crawl up to them.
“Most of them have either a brother or a friend who died, and they cry.
“Like, what will I tell his mother, what will I tell his girlfriend, I still keep quiet and don’t tell them.”
Some men feel guilty about buying sex, she said, but they rationalise it by saying: “I have a wife, but I don’t think it’s cheating. I’ll be killed in combat, and I won’t have time to enjoy it [in future]. I’m not ashamed.”
A sex worker explained that “90 per cent” of her clients have some kind of feeling of regret – and that the troops “went for the money and didn’t think they would have to do the dirty work”.
She added: “[The troops are] not ready for the fact that people are really being killed around them, and they say the same thing: ‘I expected something different, I didn’t want to fight, I didn’t want to kill, I killed, and I have nightmares about him, what should I do?'”
Some sex workers even feel the need to drink during visits, with one revealing that she “can’t listen” to all of their horrific tales from being on the frontline without alcohol.
Venturing into the trenches with Putin’s soldiers has been described as the “most dangerous thing,” with many “cheaper” workers going there for “a couple of days” and receive 50 clients within that time.
Igor, an officer fighting since 2022 with a wife and daughter back home, believes military men have the right to cheat on their wives in order to “relieve tension” from the war, even though he would “kill” his beautician wife for cheating, according to Verstka.
Meanwhile reports say women are relocating in large numbers from other cities in Russia to meet the frontline demand for sex – or just talking.
