40,000 Sex Workers For the World Cup?

It was reported that for the second consecutive World Cup, 40,000 sex workers have been imported into the host nation to meet the demands of eager male fans.

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Sex trafficking is not traditional prostitution, but the transportation of women under force or fraud. The 40,000 figure would be staggering if true, but it most likely is not.

Although it has been widely reported in the press that Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010 have seen influxes of 40,000 sex workers, Chandre Gould at the Pretoria-based think tank Institute for Security Studies has said that the 40,000 figure is based on some "throwaway comment" by an official during a gathering with journalists.

And Mariam Khokhar, a resident at the intergovernmental International Organization for Migration, said that "We have not seen an increase or any cases that are directly linked to the World Cup."

During its games, the German government regulated prostitute knowing full-well that men away from home and often infused with alcohol would seek it. And with that pragmatism and German efficiency, the government organized prostitution in a manner as to steer it away from public centers and keep it safe. While many men during the games seek prostitutes it is not clear that a sporting event attracts more prostitutes to the area or that demand increases so much that the local supple, as it were, would be insufficient.

Patrick Belse at the UN International Labour Organization says 40,000 sex workers "would represent some kind of oversupply." Of the hundreds of thousands of World Cup tourists, many of them are not men or men of age, and most men would not pay for sex.

Demand for prostitute has probably gone up, but the 40,000 figure is an exaggeration.