If you've ever been on the lookout for European travel, then you've probably heard of this place, and it's the Czech Republic. There is Prague, known as the "City of Literature and Art", and the mysterious "Ossuary Church".
But in addition to tourism, there is another industry that is very well developed in the Czech Republic, and that is the industry, which has reached the point where 7 out of every 100,000 people have filmed a pornographic film.
Why would such a developed region allow the harmful gray industry to develop in such a way, and even be called the "distribution center" of the industry and the "red light district" of Europe by the whole world?
Highly open, 7 out of 100,000 people have made?
The Czech Republic has a land area of only 79,000 square kilometers, so you may not have a good idea of just looking at the numbers, but you will see it if you compare it.
Chongqing, as a municipality directly under the central government, has an area of about 82,000 square kilometers. That is, the Czech Republic is not even as big as Chongqing. According to 2022 data, the population of the Czech Republic is only 10.53 million, while according to the data of the seventh national census, the population of Chongqing has reached more than 32.05 million.
Therefore, although the Czech Republic is about the same size as Chongqing, its population is two-thirds smaller. And in such a small country, the sex industry is very developed, with 7 out of every 100,000 people filming pornographic films.
You might think that 7 out of 100,000 people, then there are only 700 people out of 10 million people, which is also called developed? Moreover, this number is not the number of all practitioners, but only the number of people who have filmed.
As we all know, the pornography industry itself is a gray area, which is explicitly banned in many countries and will not be put on the surface. However, in the Czech Republic, the development of the sex industry is relatively open, and the participation of the population is very high.
So, compared to other countries that explicitly ban this industry, 7 out of 100,000 people have made adult films, which is still a high rate.
Moreover, on the world's largest color video website, many of the most popular actors are industry leaders from the Czech Republic, and there have been relatively famous "Czech Hunter" series of videos circulating in China.
In addition, there are some of the world's best sites in the Czech Republic, as well as the world's largest male pornography magazine, Loft. There are also a lot of adult video production companies, including 15 studios that shoot gay men, so you can imagine how large the number of people working in the entire industry will be.
In addition to the large number of pornographic media on the Internet, which is thriving, the Czech industry also has a section of the sex trade, and the sex workers also have sex service workers in the red light district.
When it comes to sexual services in the Czech Republic, we have to mention the town of Cheb. During the 2006 World Cup, fans and tourists who traveled to Germany to watch the game rushed to Cheb, a Czech town on the border with Germany. It's a very remote town, so what's so special about this town? It turns out that Cheb is the most developed area in the Czech Republic with the sex industry.
In Cheb, there is the world's largest open-air custom place. Along the European E55 international highway leading to the town of Cheb, you can see billboards attracting tourists with explicit slogans to attract passers-by to Cheb's "erotic paradise".
According to authoritative data, there are more than 100 places in Chebu customs, and the practitioners range from Europe to Asia, not only Europeans, but also Southeast Asians. As for where these practitioners come from, they may not be so formal and legal, because these practitioners are often involved in human trafficking and trafficking.
In the Czech Republic, the pornography industry encompasses pornography and the sex trade, and Czechs do not scoff at the industry, but like a logo.
Czechs are very involved in the sex industry, and in addition to some people who are forced to make a living, there are also some people of high social status who go to the sea, the most famous is the former national gymnast, Zdanka Podkapova.
The high level of national acceptance of the sex industry is also evidenced by a number of activities that have been carried out in the Czech Republic. For example, the "Erotic Weekend" event, which means that as long as you pay a high fee, you can participate in the process of making pornographic movies, which is still very popular.
How can the sex industry develop in the Czech Republic?
The development of the sex industry in the Czech Republic is truly jaw-dropping. But why is that? How did the Czech industry develop?
This has to go back to the history of the Czech Republic, and there are two main reasons.
One is the demand for economic development, and the first priority of an industry is to make money. The Czech Republic was born out of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and at that time Czechoslovakia's GDP was second only to that of the old capitalist countries such as the United Kingdom.
However, Czechoslovakia suffered a great loss of vitality in World War II, its economic development regressed, and its former glory was no longer mentioned, and inflation and people's lives were somewhat unsustainable. As a result, some women began to be forced into the sex industry, which was the predecessor of the Czech industry.
And the people they served were mainly German Nazi officers. Located on the border between the two countries, Cheb was the perfect place to do business, and it was then that Cheb laid the foundation for the development of the sex services industry.
Later, Czechoslovakia was dissolved, the Czech Republic became independent, and continued on this path. This is because although the Czech Republic was born out of a socialist country, it accepted the ideas of capitalism in the process of Westernization and achieved "sexual liberation" step by step.
Coupled with the support and promotion of "sexual liberation" by political parties, and the fact that businessmen saw lucrative profits in the sex industry, the Czech sex industry became bigger and bigger.
The second is that in the Czech Republic, religion has less constraints on people's thoughts. In the Czech Republic, on the European continent, 72 percent of the population is atheist, and most people say they are not religious.
Alienation from religion may have also played a role in this. As we know, Europe was the cradle of Christianity, which later evolved into Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism. These religions have a great influence on the culture and customs of the region. We all know more or less about the constraints of medieval Christianity on human nature, especially the repression of sexuality.
Later, in the Reformation movement proposed by Jan Hus and other Czech religious figures, the Czech Republic broke out of the shackles of religion and people's minds were greatly emancipated. Coupled with the subsequent acceptance of capitalist ideas, the minds of the masses can be said to be more open
What is the government's attitude towards the high level of public acceptance?
In our perception, the industry is, after all, an industry that sells its body, and it is not very glorious. But why would the Czech population be willing to work in these industries?
The first is the digestion of the idea of "sexual liberation" in the Czechs, which we just mentioned, and the stigma of engaging in this kind of industry is not as heavy as in East Asian countries. They are not ashamed of this, so they are willing to enter the industry, even some teachers will switch careers to the industry, and national athletes like the one we mentioned above are willing to give up their original "decent" jobs to go to sea.
The second is the considerable economic benefits of the industry. The Czech pornography industry generates $2.2 billion a year and can be said to be an important industry in the Czech Republic.
2.2 billion US dollars, even if it is 2.2 billion yuan, is not small money. Of course, this is the overall benefit, but it is enough to see that this industry is still relatively profitable. Therefore, especially those who have financial difficulties, if they want to make money quickly, they will choose to go to the sea.
In fact, although there are many industries in the Czech Republic, and they are developing very well, the government does not fully support them, but has adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye.
After all, the output value of the sex industry is there, and although many minors have been persecuted and even trafficked in human beings in the process of the development of this industry, the Czech government still maintains a tacit attitude towards the development of this industry.
In short, the Czech Republic has been emerging in the industry since the nineties of the last century. Although the Czech Republic is unknown in China, except for tourism and Jolin Tsai's "Prague Square", everyone knows very little about him, but its industry has indeed caught up with Spain and other old industry countries.
So, knowing about the Czech industry today, what do you think of the Czech Republic as a country?
Resources
Czech Republic – Wikipedia
A list of the land areas of each province in China
Data from the Seventh National Population Census
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