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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
HOUSE OF THE SETTING SUN | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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See all articles by this contributor Anonymous, on Jul 21, 2009 wrote:
This is incredibly sad. I guess you figure that prostitutes get out of the business eventually but in reality they can’t escape that life. At least there’s a place for them. | |
| catbird, on Jul 21, 2009 wrote:
this makes me sad | | Anonymous, on Sep 15, 2008 wrote:
lol she should become a suicide bomba | | Anonymous, on Aug 20, 2008 wrote:
This is such a great article! It’s good to know a place like this exists.
These women are inspiring! Such badasses. It definitely sheds light on the appeal of being a prostitute, and equally on the issues many of their clients have (and makes you think- why do people have these issues?)
Thanks for writing this, guys and displaying a little bit of their world for us to see. :)
| | Anonymous, on Jul 5, 2008 wrote:
this article is very sad, the things these women have gone through are horrable. | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2008 wrote:
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Thank you for this, Vice. So often I despise you, but this article shows exactly why you must endure. | | Anonymous, on Jul 2, 2008 wrote:
Hmmm.... so it is--Oh wait. You’re reading an article about old hookers in a magazine called Vice. | | Anonymous, on Jul 2, 2008 wrote:
Excellent article, but the line : Where an Aging Hooker Can Find a Little Piece, Oops, We Mean Peace, is vulgar and offesinve.
| | Anonymous, on Jul 2, 2008 wrote:
Esto está tan triste. My heart goes out to these woman, and my fist to the fuckers who disrespect them. For the womens’ sake I hope there is such a thing as reincarnation and they get a better deal the next time round. | | Anonymous, on Jul 1, 2008 wrote:
buen artículo que demuestra que los mejores tiempos, aunque pasaron siempre encontrarán lugar en la remembranza | | Anonymous, on Jul 1, 2008 wrote:
happy mothers day.... ha | |
| dom, on Jun 30, 2008 wrote:
Paula is pretty hot. How much is 5 pesos? | | Anonymous, on Jun 30, 2008 wrote:
Fuck yeah prostitutes! | | Anonymous, on Jun 29, 2008 wrote:
Good to know that these women have a place where they can be seen just as women, not like sexual workers. Prostitution isn’t the earliest profession in history, but the first way of slavery. | | Anonymous, on Jun 28, 2008 wrote:
The reality of this article made me a little sick. | | Anonymous, on Jun 27, 2008 wrote:
sad :( the world makes me sad | |
| elcarrito, on Jun 27, 2008 wrote:
Great article! It’s really sad to think what this women have gone through. Sucked into a life created by the secret lusts of scumbags in a failed economy that leaves millions of people without a choice. These women are fighters... | | |
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