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February 6th, 2010 at 7:34 pm (Uncategorized)

Three brash American teenagers stroll in and break the silence. The one Hebrew speaker among them asks the girl behind the desk for the price. “Two hundred thirty shekels for half an hour; two-fifty for forty minutes.” “Hey,” replies his friend, “chill out a bit. Wait and see if they have any girls who are hotter than these,” he says, gesturing toward the two women.

Although barely eighteen (if that), this guy was not a novice in this house. Raised on McDonald’s and with an apparently sluggish  metabolism, he was pug-ugly to boot and I couldn’t help thinking that he would have found it difficult getting laid through more conventional methods. But I was still unable to account for such an inhuman attitude to these women in one so young. My friend Gideon leaned over to me and spoke softly: “You see them all the time,” he said. “Their parents pack ‘em off from the Upper West Side to Israel with a book filled with the phone numbers of synagogues, rabbis, and shuls, and a wad of cash. And then the minute they get here, they head for the whorehouses.”

- Misha Glenny, McMafia