Other places for selling sex are gay restaurants, discos dark rooms and erotic cinemas. Customers, who prefer a more anonymous and private setting react on adds in several newsapapers and magazines. Condoms are much more popular within Poland than 5 years ago. The knowledge concerning safer sex practises is bigger than 4 or 5 years ago. It may be a result of influence of NGO-s which are trying to spread an information about reproductive health, sexual education and prevention using books, liflets, organizing meetings, conferences and informing and educating media.
But the lack of full and proper sexual education in primary and secondary schools is still a problem in Poland. All above-mentioned organisations are non-governmental and nation wide. Outreachwork is done in the following places: gay clubs and discos, streets, parks, saunas and railway stations. Men who sell sex to women usually work within Escort agencies or by advertising in newspapers and magazines. A lot of agencies employing men are situated on the Gdansk Coast.
Their customers are mainly seamen's wives. In Szczecin doesn't exist such an agency, though it is a port city. Male sex work in Polland. Sexologists describe it as one of the sexual orientations; some authors use the term of "atypical sexual behaviour, characterised by a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex, either women or men". The law makes no different between male and female sex work: it is allowed for people older than 17 years. Customers are not prosecuted for having sex with prostitutes, older than 17 years.
Persons, encouraging or urging others into prostitution as well as those who make profits out of prostitution pimps will be prosecuted.
According to the Polish law, people older than 17 years may conduct an active sexual life. The same rule applies for prostitution. Prostitutes younger than 17 years may be prosecuted. Youngsters, who sell sex are usually placed in an education centre for girls or boys. However, if a juvenile prostitute commits an offence he or she will be placed in a borstal.
