Suffice it to say that the necessity to be near a working bathroom at 8AM on a national holiday and in mid-summer positively propelled me to the nearest Starbucks as soon as I got up. Creative Commons 2. And he drove up to get his freak on⦠just another young gentleman, out after a long night of partying, and ready to build up the Spanish GDP , one sex act at a time. Of course, getting a hooker is just another bodily function for a lot of guys around here.
Here in Madrid, people will protest against hour supermarkets. But a brothel seems to bother almost no-one. Nobody needs to buy yogurt at 3AM! Anyway, what can I say? Cultural differences. I used to give classes to a lot of executives. Born into the upper middle class. A couple of kids, and a wife he met at university when they were both barely twenty.
Typical Spanish family man, in other words. Leaving my wife at home. Just me, my friends and some fulanas. How do you say fulanas in English? I believe that in this case, you are referring to prostitutes. Two big half-Spanish guys with beer guts. Back when I was with my first wife. Prostitution is neither legal nor illegal. What is illegal is profiting from the prostitution of others: human trafficking, pimping, etc. I wrote the original version of this article several years ago. Since then, things have changed, a bit.
And the new leftist coalition government, in fact, has promised to ban it someday soon as of October , when they announced their intentions. Will they actually pass some law about it? Will they be able to eliminate prostitution from Spain? I find it highly doubtful. But hey. Not my circus, not my monkeys. Here the small-town Catholic types are remarkably chill about the whole thing. Or hey, why not obscene Spanish expressions. Okay, I broke down and wrote a more serious article about prostitution in Spain.
One of the more surprising things I learned in the course of my research is that the younger generation of Spanish guys are totally into it. Who knew? January 8, Hey everyone⦠Happy New Year! December 3, I recently did a bike tour in the west of Spain. The Read More. November 26, These birthdays always give me Read More. How did I end up in Spain? Why am I still here almost 20 years later? Excellent questions. With no good answer Anyway, at some point I became a blogger, bestselling author and contributor to Lonely Planet.
