Olympic fever is taking hold in Metro Vancouver’s sex industry, with businesses and workers preparing to welcome a deluge of visitors.
Vancouver’s most prominent strip club is planning Olympic-themed decorations, but keeping them secret for fear of a clampdown by Olympics authorities. And one Metro Vancouver escort service is hiring dozens of women from across the country for the Games – and is already catering to Olympics-related demand.
In Vancouver, hotel doormen, bell captains and concierges who refer guests to entertainment venues have been warning Brandy Sarionder to expect hordes of clients at her high-end strip club Brandi’s and her massage parlour The Swedish Touch, she says.
“We’ve been told that however busy we think we’re going to be, we’re going to be a thousand times busier than that,” Sarionder says.
Sarionder has hired an additional 10 porters, security guards and bartenders, while dancers from the pool of 70 will work extended hours.
“They’re very excited,” Sarionder says. “I keep trying to make them understand that it’s a marathon and not a sprint. I’m a little worried about my staff burning out.”
To give the strip lounge an Olympic feeling, Sarionder has left up the snowflakes from the Christmas decor, and plans to put up some Games-specific items she wouldn’t reveal.
“I’m afraid to talk about it in case the Olympic police come and say, `Take those decorations down,”’ Sarionder says.
Canada’s largest escort agency, Carman Fox and Friends, has been receiving about a hundred applications a week from women hoping to work during the Games, says owner Carman Fox.
“These are a lot of women who want to be `foxes’ just for the Olympics,” Fox says. “We’ve got a lot of girls coming in from Calgary, from Toronto, Edmonton, from all over Canada. Even girls from Victoria want to come in here and work with us for a week, or just for a few days. There’s so many now that I’m doing group interviews – four at a time.”
Fox expects to hire about 30 women for the Olympics, adding to the company’s existing escort pool of 100. Clients will be paying $300 to $400 an hour for most escorts, with four “VIP foxes” coming in for the Games costing $10,000 an hour and up, Fox says.
Already, men who have arrived early for the Olympics are swamping Fox’s agency, she says.
A Vancouver escort who goes by the name Classy Angel says she’s sticking with her established clients, and is turning down four or five requests a day from Olympics visitors hoping to pay $500 an hour for four to six hours of her company. Many of the men are from Germany, with some contacting her from the U. S. and Eastern Canada, she says.
Vancouver-area dominatrix Miss Jasmine – whose work includes “pony play” in which she wears spurs and rides the man, who wears a saddle and a bit between his teeth – says she’s looking forward to providing her $300-an-hour abuse to police working at and visiting the Games.
“There’s a certain kind of person who’s in that position of power who needs . . . it taken away from them,” Miss Jasmine says.
She expects she’ll be seeing Europeans, from two countries in particular.
“British and Germans are usually really kinky,” she says.
On the streets, Vancouver’s hundred or so local sex-trade workers have seen about 50 additional women arrive in recent months, says Susie Davis, a sex worker heading an effort to open the city’s first legal brothel.
“They think that there’s going to be a huge earning potential off of all of the visitors to the Olympic Games,” Davis says.
Vancouver police aren’t planning any crackdown on prostitution during the Games, says Const. Lindsey Houghton.
“Street-related prostitution existed before the Games, it will exist during the Games and it will exist after,” Houghton says. “Our enforcement around that will not be any different. We have a dedicated vice unit that works very closely with the girls and the guys . . . to ensure that they are safe.”
source: www.montrealgazette.com
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