Business is good for career prostitutes charging thousands of pounds, says john gibb |
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Prostitution in Britain is booming. Not among the street girls paying for their drugs habit, nor the desolate young women working in massage parlours to pay off the men who trafficked them.
Instead, I am talking about the thousands of young women who have chosen prostitution because they want independence and financial security and - not in all cases - because they enjoy the work.
If, as was claimed in the News of the World on Sunday, Faria Alam is now working as a prostitute, then she would be typical in many respects of the girls attracted to the work: she apparently made it clear that she wanted to earn good money and was happy to have sex with strangers.
What is atypical is that the former secretary at the FA, famous for her affair with Sven Goran Eriksson, was capitalising on her notoriety; also, at the age of 40, many girls
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would have made enough money to be able to retire.
Two key factors have led to a huge rise in this kind of prostitution - the influx of girls from Poland and other eastern European countries which acceeded to the EU in 2000, and the increasing use of the internet to advertise their services.
Katarzyna arrived in London in 2001 on a student visa to learn English. She was 22 and fluent in Russian and German, with a degree in world literature from Wroclaw University in Poland.
Within a year, she was studying beauty at the London College of Fashion and working at a bar in the evenings. She earned very little. "My Polish friends were sleeping with men for money so I did it too."
It wasn't hard to get started. She signed up with Aprov, one of dozens of London-based agencies promoting prostitutes. It's a management company with around 30 girls on the books; all attractive young eastern Europeans.
"They find you a flat, take photographs 
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