I got this off CNN today and thought it was worth posting here.

Prostitutes Charge NATO Troops More

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Prostitutes are charging NATO troops dispatched to this Baltic state more than three times as much money as Lithuanian clients, police said Thursday.

In recent days, prostitutes have been arriving in the city of Siauliai, where 100 NATO soldiers are stationed, part of a team to service four Belgian F-16s that patrol the skies above Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Police Commissioner General Vytautas Grigaravicius told reporters.



He said that the sex workers were hiking their rates for the Western troops, who come from Belgium and Norway.

``Prostitutes take $35 an hour from Lithuanian citizens, while NATO troops are asked to pay $125 an hour,'' he said, calling it a clear case of discrimination. Prostitution is illegal in the country of 3.5 million residents.

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were inducted into the U.S.-led alliance on March 29 along with four other ex-communist countries.


-- Modified on 4/8/2004 11:38:58 AM

Price point problems all over the world!

Amazing how fast capitalism catches on once repressive communist regimes have been overthrown

The Air Force has long ben frustrated that the maintenance costs for F-16s per flight hour turned out to be much more than expected...  perhaps we've identified the problem, the crews are "hookin up" while deployed.

when i was in eygpt, the price was 20 to 40 US dollars a night, not a hour

also having a escort in eygpt was whole different story than here in more ways than one, some ways better some ways worse(LOL), these women wanted to be your girl freind, and they were for you not for other men.................