

Rykov, who first learned about the internet in a 1995 state-sponsored trip to the United States and fell deeply into IRC chat networks, is a one-of-a-kind beast who fits strangely well into the wonderland circle of Kremlin influence and ideology. Websites like Dosug take a page from both to bring the world’s oldest profession into a high-tech, low-life 21st century.ĭosug was created by Konstantin Rykov, a 37-year-old Russian internet entrepreneur and politician who, until 2011, served as a legislative deputy in President Vladimir Putin‘s United Russia party and worked in the Duma Committee on Science and High Technologies. Silk Road forever changed buying drugs on the dark net. Uber revolutionized hailing cabs on your phone. Dosug’s map of nearby available prostitutes looks an awful lot like Uber‘s map of available drivers.Įvery business sells a product. Its existence means buying anything from a massage to sex is nearly as easy as ordering up a taxi on your phone. It can be found on both the anonymous dark net as well as the normal internet, where the website is always trying to stay two steps ahead of Russia’s notoriously vigorous cyber censors.Īt over a decade old, Dosug serves as Russia’s biggest catalog of sex workers. As the Russian economy and currency sunk over the last several years, the price of prostitution has spiked across the board.īut the sex is “excellent,” according to the reviews on her Dosug profile, so men pay the price.ĭosug (?, translated as Leisure) is a Russian online brothel centered in Moscow but with operations all around Europe. But those kind of prices are increasingly common for sex workers in Russia. She’s a beautiful, 25-year-old Russian woman who could bankrupt you with her presence.Īn evening with Katrin is relatively expensive: 15,000 rubles-about $228-for an hour of her time. Just send her a message on a website called Dosug and grab your wallet. Directly in the heart of Moscow, near the Taganskaja metro station, you can meet Katrin.
