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HOUSE OF THE SETTING
SUN - PART 1
Where an Aging Hooker Can Find a Little Piece, Oops, We Mean Peace
BY JUAN PABLO AGUILAR AND GUILLERMO RIVERO, TRANSLATED BY MEGAN MCDOWELL
PHOTOS BY RAMIRO CHAVES
Tepito is one of the poorest and most dangerous areas of Mexico City. It’s been a black market since time immemorial, and anything you want, original or imitation, can be found here. Sex can be bought starting at five pesos—from people up to 80 years old.
Xochiquetzal is a nursing home for senior-citizen sex workers. The house, which has a minimum age requirement of 60, can accommodate up to 45 women. Right now there are only 23 retired ladies of the night living there. The majority of them continue working, because there are still people who want to pay to have sex with them. According to the home’s director, the demand isn’t explained by gerontophilia, but by the poverty surrounding the nursing home. “If you have five pesos,” he says, “you buy something that costs five pesos.” But the residents believe something else. They think that, like wine, their vaginas have gotten better with age—and they also claim to get much more than five pesos.
Let’s meet some of these old whores! (That isn’t meant as an insult. It’s literally what they are!)
TO BE CONTINUED
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