Residents say that street prostitution in Playa de las Américas is huge issue again

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I last posted about this problem about a year and a half ago on my site, but prostitution has again become a huge issue in Playa de las Américas. Once again, it's concentrated in Calles de Llanos de Troya and Arquitecto Gómez Cuesta, say residents of the area, according to whom sex is being offered ... and practised ... in the open from around 9pm to 7am.

Residents say, too, that there are even more girls on the streets than previously, something they put down to the economic crisis because there are also men there now selling their bodies.

Locals decry the police for driving through the areas while this is going on but doing "absolutely nothing" to deter it, a policy they feel is replicated at Ayuntamiento level. They say that the consequences are being felt daily in the area not only because of discarded condoms but because there are regular fights and disturbances caused by both the prostitutes and their pimps. JA