A poll of 80 prostitutes from the greater area of Warsaw and Gdansk by Polish police last year gave a worrying result: a third of the girls tested positive for HIV. But when you're doing twenty dicks a day, what do you expect?
We spent four days with the prozzers who work on the roadsides between Krakow and Katowice. During that time their pimps tried to beat us up, the girls spat at us for trying to photograph them, and we met Magda and her year-old daughter — a wholesome fuck team if ever we saw one.
We gave them coffee and cookies and they told us their story. Vice: So have you been in this business for a while? Magda: I'm 43 years old but my job makes me feel younger. I'm here five days a week from 9 AM till 4 PM. Most of my johns appreciate my experience a lot. Well, I can imagine that. The guy at the gas station told me that you took your daughter here for the first time today.
Don't you want her to go to school and get a job? I will teach her everything. I'm the greatest whore around. I've been doing this for over 25 years now and I have great knowledge about how to please a man.
Her dad doesn't want her to go to school either because it's a waste of time. She can be on the street and earn money instead. The young and fresh girls earn a lot of money in the beginning, and Agnes is a real beauty so she will make a lot. Can you give me an idea of how much money you bring home on a good day? That is hard to say. Today I make way less Next year they want to rebuild this road, so I'm not sure where I'm supposed to stand then.
