Fatima looks like a typical woman from a poor quarter, trying to survive by cooking and cleaning houses in wealthier neighborhoods. She has worked here since her husband died two years ago. She talks proudly about her four children, whom she can afford to send to school. Sometimes the flat is rented to vacationing families, sometimes to single men, most of them from the Gulf. She untangles how this enterprise operates.
Single prostitutes go from one flat to the next during the day.
Sometimes, she explains, the first request comes in at five o'clock in the morning. Then the prostitutes make the rounds till late afternoon, only to be replaced by a tougher night shift. The social background of the women varies significantly according to studies and statistics about women arrested for sex crimes. Unlike Fatima, who can't read or write, Aisha has a high school diploma. One of her school friends introduced her to the business a few months ago.