Escort Ireland, the country’s largest escort site, is offering men the opportunity to live out their “war-inspired fantasies” with newly-arrived Ukrainian women, a researcher with the OSCE told an Irish NGO. Amid the outpouring of refugees from Ukraine, the researcher said that internet searches for buying sex from these women has increased by up to 600%.
Since refugees began leaving Ukraine in late February, Escort Ireland has reported a 250% increase in searches for Ukrainian women, Valiant Richey, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, told an online conference on Thursday.
In other countries, the spike in searches for prostitution services from Ukrainian women spiked by “as much as 600%,” Richey told the conference, which was organized by Beyond Exploitation, an Irish NGO.