Rome's transsexual prostitutes

15.10.2012

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"Sei operata? Sei dotata? Quanto costa?" Four youngsters in a sports car are hassling all prostitutes in front of the abattoir. Valeria, an elegant mulatta, turns her head and scans the square for clients. She will have to make €150 tonight.

The youngsters look like students; the car is obviously daddy's. Earlier this night, they tried to get lucky with tourist girls. Now they are on a "puttan tour": Via Salaria, the abattoir, Viale Guglielmo Marconi, EUR... They are Valeria's age. Later on this night, they will score drugs before going back to hotel Mum and Dad. Valeria had to leave home when she was 15.

Her father had gone berserk when he discovered that his son Valerio liked dressing up as a girl, to become Valeria. Whereas her classmates were going through puberty, Valeria was thrown straight into adulthood. No holding hands, no romantic strolls, but impersonal paid sex: ...