"I used to work in France but the conditions were not great. I had to meet clients at hotels or at their homes. I didn’t feel safe. In Switzerland I can work in relative security. I now travel back and forth for work." - Melya
"I have seen how tastes have changed. The services that clients want now are very different. Before requests for s**omy were rare. Now it is asked for all the time. It might be the influence of the internet." - Lisa
“I’ve been reading about the economic sexual exchange theory. There is a continuum of relationships in which a man gives compensation for a woman’s sexual services. At one end you have marriage and prostitution at the other.” – Agathe
"I am French but I rarely visited prostitutes back at home. Now that I live in Switzerland I come here sometimes. It is legal so I don’t have to worry. I work too hard to have time for a relationship.” – Client
"I started working here in order to have freedom from financial worries and to pursue art studies. In the end I don’t feel free. I have become a slave to the money.” – Mathilde
"Prostitutes are either pitied or demonised. People can’t accept that a woman can make a decision to sell sexual services of her own free will. Although prostitution is legal in Switzerland there is still a lot of work to do here. In particular, stig
“I came here from the Ukraine sixteen years ago and have been working at this salon for ten. I used to work at a restaurant but the money wasn’t good.” – Lena
"Prostitution is either embellished or denigrated by the press. I decided to start this work because I read an article that made it seem glamourous. It isn’t in fact. But it isn’t terrible either. The truth lies somewhere in between.” – Ana
“I have been trained to give sexual services to handicapped people by the association Sexualité et Handicap. I think this is really important work. If you are paralysed you can’t even masturbate. Sometimes handicapped clients are brought here by thei
"People say that I lead a bad life and that I am nothing but a whore. They will continue to do so, but they should know that I love my life and I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.” – Lisa, Owner of the Erotic Salon Venusia