For others, it's a chance to latch on to an engineer for maybe more than one night. The "world's oldest profession" has always found a niche in proximity to large-scale projects that require thousands of workers β where men are alone, isolated from their families and earning a big salary.
And prostitutes are hoping to take advantage of a resource boom, using classified ads and dating sites to offer their services.
Claudie, who leaves Saguenay by car, will pick up a client on the way near highway Those who want to can meet her at the destination, a motel in Baie-Comeau. Increased mining activity and an influx of temporary workers attracts girls working solo like Claudie, who prefer to drive or take the plane and then shut themselves in a motel room for several days, enough time to make a heap of cash. We don't see it. There are people who say it is there, others who turn a blind eye, and still others who simply don't know.
She is now seeking to run for the Liberals in the next election. A fresh group of girls arrives every Wednesday by bus. It becomes almost a way out. It's almost a casting agency, booking girls," says Louise Dubreuil, whose office co-ordinates sexual health outreach on behalf of the local health department. Prostitution goes unmentioned in Fermont, a small town of nearly 2,, just like everywhere else in the North Shore region. The construction workers and others are under close observation and are subject to regular workplace testing to check for alcohol or drug use.
Instead, they can obtain the services of women passing through the region. Elsewhere on a site with classified ads, in the female escort category, a woman who says she is 20 and from St.
