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Every weekend, driving from Dresden in eastern Germany, via the famous European E55 motorway, when you are about to arrive in the Czech border city of Cheb, you will always be attracted by the rolling subtitles of roadside billboards, because it says "slow down, there are beautiful women ahead".
Czech "street girl" who is soliciting customers
Because there are hundreds of pornographic establishments here, countless sex workers with heavy makeup stand on the side of the road, looking at the cars passing by.
Whenever they see a car slowing down, they come forward in German or even six different languages to solicit business.
In fact, the German-Czech border, centered on Cheb town, has long formed a 60-kilometer-long "sex industry corridor".
There are not only sex workers from European countries such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Ukraine, but also countless "lovers" from all over Europe.
Many European men come here in the name of business trips, and some companies even use the place directly as a "team-building" location.
The town of Cheb is just a microcosm of the Czech pornography industry.
Perhaps some people's impression of the Czech Republic is still stuck in the memory of the vivid and interesting cartoon "The Mole's Tale", or the magnificent Prague Castle, the majestic St. Vita Cathedral and the literary and artistic Golden Lane.
The cartoon "The Mole Story" from the Czechoslovak period left many people with good memories of their childhood
Who would have thought that such a country, which carries the essence of a long history and art, has long become one of the most famous erotic countries in Europe.
Bordering Germany in the west and Poland and Slovakia in the east, the Czech Republic has a land area of only 78,900 square kilometers, which is not as large as Chongqing.
In the Czech Republic, "sex" is both life and work.
Not only did senators speak openly about their favorite type of adult videos in interviews without hesitation, but even Czech President Miloš Zeman was exposed to having adult videos on his computer.
This is true of Czech officials, not to mention ordinary people.
From film and television stars and sports champions to school teachers and war veterans, the sex industry is employed in every profession in the Czech Republic.
WGCZ, the world's largest pornographic capital company, sits in this extremely ordinary-looking building
In the global chain, the most famous Czech film is adult films, because the headquarters of WGCZ, the world's largest pornographic capital company, is located in the Czech Republic.
WGCZ is located on Krakow Street in the center of Prague, and several famous sites in Europe are owned by WGCZ.
According to industry statistics, adult films produced and shot by the Czech Republic can generate billions of dollars in income every year, and there are countless derivative incomes of all kinds.
Czech castles, schools, hotels and even well-known tourist venues in the Czech Republic have become the scene for adult films.
There are even "careful netizens" who have drawn a "Prague film mecca tour map" with an amazing number of views, detailing every corner of the city where adult movies have been filmed.
Adult films are naturally inseparable from adult film actors, of which Czech girls account for the majority, known for their graceful figure and elegant temperament.
But the most famous movie star in the Czech industry is Zdanka Podkapova, who is out of the world.
Podkapoća was the backbone of the Czech national gymnastics team and won four national championships during her 10-year career.
She was tall and slender on the field, with a delicate face, and was once the "dream goddess" of many people.
However, it is such a world-famous gymnastics star who switched to the adult film and television industry after his career.
Czech gymnast Zdanka Podkapova was once the "goddess of dreams" for countless people
However, this is not entirely surprising, because Podkapova participated in the filming of pornographic magazines before retiring and became the most popular Czech girl in the well-known magazine "Attic".
As for what "the first male model in Eastern Europe" and "the most beautiful Czech congresswoman", anyway, the louder the title, the more likely it is to be invited by adult film companies, and they basically do not refuse.
Also making adult films "Going to the Sea" is Tomas Skoloudik, known as "the most handsome male model in the Czech Republic"
A few years ago, the Czech Republic exposed the scandal that 9 guards of the Czech Presidential Guard were forced to retire early for participating in nude filming on a gay site.
Czechs are no strangers to various professions involved in the adult industry, but some adult actresses still want to use their past professional experience to run for parliament in the European Union.
In 2004, the same year that the Czech Republic joined the European Union, an adult film actress named Dolly Buster announced her candidacy for the European Parliament.
Booth does not hide his profession, saying that he can borrow his experience in the film industry from the policy platform... Her campaign slogan for this is "Love each other and reproduce together." ”
Although she doesn't know how much her experience in the sex industry has to do with the European Parliament, her campaign was supported by many men and unfortunately lost the final vote.
Many adult film actresses in the Czech Republic are highly educated girls
In addition to the adult film industry, the Czech Republic is full of pornographic clubs, massage clubs and bars, as well as countless "street girls".
Sadly, many of these practitioners are highly educated Czech female university students, and they even take the initiative to "go to the sea".
In fact, the Czech pornography industry can be traced back to more than thirty years ago, during the period of drastic changes in Eastern Europe.
In the early 90s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Czechoslovak Federal Republic was established, which was subsequently divided into two states, Czechoslovakia and Slovakia.
A view of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic in the 90s
Prior to this, because the Czech Republic was in the socialist camp, society was secretive about "sex".
After leaving the "socialist family", due to the impact of Western liberal thought, the Czech people completely let themselves go, not only did their lifestyles all rely on the West, but also the topic of sex was "revengefully liberated" in the Czech Republic.
On the street, there were many small shops called "Erotické Videokabinky", which was similar to our underground video hall business place, showing all kinds of imported adult films day and night.
Soon, all kinds of pornographic newspapers, pornographic telephones, and unscrupulous pornographic columns on television appeared in the Czech Republic, affecting an entire generation.
The cover of Leo, one of the most famous Czech magazines
At its most frantic, a political party called the Independent Pornography Initiative, or N.E.I. (Nezávislá erotická iniciativa), was founded to "promote sexual liberation throughout the Czech Republic."
N.E.I. not only gave away his "organ newspaper" (a newspaper full of pornographic photos and pornographic novels) for free, but also held "sexual culture seminars" throughout the country to earn eyeballs.
N.E.I. "Organ Newspaper" free of charge
As a result, N.E.I. had only 4,000 members when it was founded, and in the 1992 Czech elections, it won 90,000 votes sent by the "old driver".
In this atmosphere, the Czech sex culture industry has become more prosperous than ever before, gradually penetrating the film industry.
At that time, many Western film and television companies were looking for Eastern European beauties to make films, but they were suffering from the high cost of going to their own countries to make films, but also subject to many legal restrictions.
But when they saw the mature Czech film industry, their eyes lit up: yes, the technical equipment and actors are all together, let's shoot directly on the spot.
Czech filmmakers were a little awkward at first, but seeing that shooting was much more profitable than making literary films, they stopped refusing.
First-class technology + super beautiful female (male) actors + beautiful environment, Czech immediately took Europe by storm, becoming the world's largest producer of adult films.
After the rise of the Internet, the Czech Republic has become the first choice for the registration and operation of many websites around the world due to its stable Internet speed and cheap server rental business.
It is also inconceivable that the Czech Republic was included in the list of developed countries by the World Bank as early as 2006, and its current economic level is also above the middle level of EU countries.
The Czech Republic is not the poor country everyone thinks
The important reason for the development of the Czech industry is the impact of Western ideas on young people.
After more than two decades of "sexual liberation", young Czechs have long since changed from spectators to participants in the industry, because money comes too quickly.
When the Czech Republic first became independent, many girls did sneak into the affluent neighbor Germany because of the economic downturn.
For Germans, the Czech sex industry is really cheap and beautiful compared to their own country, and gradually spread its fame in Europe.
Slowly, many European companies came to the Czech Republic to film so-called "amateur experiences", deliberately luring young people with money to participate in the shooting of adult films.
dealers lure young Czech people with cash directly on the streets
For Czechs, making adult films can not only be "cool", but also get paid hundreds of euros, why not?
Czech adult filmmakers have also held several "erotic weekends" in Prague, where viewers can not only shoot the scene with their mobile phones, but also "go shirtless" and directly participate in the shooting as long as they have a health certificate.
Czech "erotic weekend" events can be starred by ordinary audiences themselves in adult films
If you can cooperate with two 15-minute films, you can get paid 200 euros (nearly 1500 yuan) for men and 400 euros for women.
According to statistics, at least 7 out of every 100,000 people in the capital Prague have appeared in pornographic films.
Objectively speaking, the sex industry does have a certain role in promoting the tourism industry in the Czech Republic, so in the face of the abnormal "prosperity" of the culture, the Czech government has been turning a blind eye, even as a symbol of "democracy and freedom".
In the Czech Republic, erotic trade between individuals is legal, and only businesses such as brothels and pimping are not allowed by law, but can still be covered by seemingly legitimate businesses such as massage clubs and high-end bars.
Under the pressure of public opinion at home and abroad, the Czech government has not cracked down on the rampant sex industry, but with little success, and due to the relaxed sexual culture awareness throughout the Czech Republic, the police and other regulatory departments are actually deaf and dumb to all kinds of sex trafficking.
After all, Czech pornography is already a complete industrial chain, not only involving the livelihood of many people, but also a deep-rooted sense of so-called "freedom", which is impossible to uproot and achieve.
However, perhaps some young Czech people are engaged in the sex business just to make quick money, but more girls in Eastern Europe, Asia and other countries who are engaged in sex work in the Czech Republic belong to the exploited class.
The biggest evil behind the Czech sex industry is human trafficking, and every year a large number of women from Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania and Asia are trafficked in the Czech Republic.
Some of them are directly sold to work in pornographic places, picking up customers from morning to night every day, and even during pregnancy, they are paid only 20% of the income from pick-ups, and most of them are taken away by agents and gangsters behind the scenes.
These foreign girls who come to the Czech Republic, some with tourist visas, some are smuggled refugees, not only have the lowest income, but often dare not call the police after being insulted and attacked by guests, and can only consider themselves unlucky.
Most sex workers are at the bottom of the exploited ladder
What is worse is the fate of girls who transit through the Czech Republic and are sold to South America, the Middle East and other places as "sex slaves", waiting for their fate to be imagined.
There is also a scandalous legal loophole in the Czech Republic, the legal age for girls to live at 15 years old, which is much lower than that of neighboring countries, which makes many "pedophiles" happy, resulting in more and more cases of illegal sex trafficking among minors in the Czech Republic.
What's more terrifying is that the Czech Republic has filmed a documentary called "Soulless Body" (also known as "The Cruel Survival of Czech Male Prostitutes in Eastern Europe"), which introduces a group of Czech teenagers who walk in the dark corners of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, to make a living by shooting and selling their flesh.
Documentary "Body Without Soul" (also known as "Cruel Survival of Czech Male Prostitutes in Eastern Europe")
In the documentary, these boys are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and they embark on this "road of no return" because of running away from home, rebellion, and friends introduction, and their "broken" age is often only about eleven or twelve years old.
Naturally, the greatest harm to the sex industry is AIDS.
A study in the United States reported that between 2010 and 2018, the number of people living with HIV in the Czech Republic increased by 128%, ranking fifth in the world for the growth rate.
However, most Czechs have always been very disgusted by the title of "power", and constantly say on the Internet: our adult industry is very developed, but not everyone makes films for money.
But the discussion on the Internet about "why Czech adult films are so developed" and "why Czech girls like to act in adult movies" has never stopped.
No way, the industry set off by adult movies has long been a lingering "title" in the Czech Republic, and has become an unavoidable practical problem while advocating "democracy and freedom" in the Czech Republic.