cinemasewer

"Tourists can enjoy Pigalle's permanent show both indoors and outdoors, according to their pocketbook. For tourists, Pigalle is a sexual Mecca, a place to come in search of a brief sexual encounter. But for the sex workers and the police, it is the locale of their daily existence."

"Transvestites make up about 95% of the prostitutes that work the area, but the dancers are exclusively women. The dancers go from caberet to caberet and do 10 to 15 'passages' a night. It's a race to be on time for all of them, but the immigrant workers are there for every show. At night many of them attend several times. But even at six francs for six nudes, it's hard to afford it."

"The transvestites try not to get caught by the police, that would mean a 400 franc fine. Many clients come from far away to try this novelty, or are caught in it naively. The rates are 50 to 100 francs depending on the means employed."

"But there are other shows for higher prices still. Beautiful women bekon into dance halls, where bottles of champagne flow and the dizzying throb of the orchestra and lights carry one off. Lovely creatures gather around tables, offering their company for a night in exchange for the generosity of their customer. Both male and female customers find not only their laps full, but sensual whispers echoing in their ears that the night is still young in Paris."