FRANCE. Paris. June 24, 2018. Raoul, 24, barman, married.
Raoul was opposed to prostitution when he was younger, but when he moved to Brussels he lived very close to the window girls and one day he and his friends decided to give it a try, persuaded by a discount the girls were offering them. He paid 30 EUR instead of 50. When he arrived in Paris he had another experience, but didn’t like it because he was confronted by the exploitative system that exists in Paris and felt very sorry for the girl he paid that night. Now he’s married and doesn’t pay for sex anymore. He thinks men grow up surrounded by an idealized version of women who do not really exist, and that they start the search to satisfy their desires at an earlier age now. Both pornography and the stereotyped woman create a desire that grows and that can easily be realized with sex workers.