Blog Lens 20 Aug Cali in Colombia is a city that got rich in the s and 90s on the back of the drugs trade, but it is now celebrated for another industry: sex.
The fact is that Cali enjoys tropical heat year-round,is famous throughout Colombia and beyond for having the most sensual women, and is a city where everyone dances, people drink and smoke pot on the street and cocaine is purer and cheaper than anywhere else in the world. It is also the second least polluted city in Latin America and with very low levels of stress.
On my first trip to Cali, I lived for two weeks in a suite complete with jacuzzi and sauna in Motel Kiss Me and spent my days taking photographs of the themed rooms.
Even though it is located in one of the most dangerous parts of the city centre, as many other bordellos and sex clubs are, the place fills up on most nights. Saddam Hussein and burning oil fields in the bedroom. No prizes for guessing which country is the theme here. Prostitution in Cali has always been legal and is well integrated into a local culture.
Since international sex tourism tends to avoid Cali due to its high level of violence, Cali exports its erotic capital internationally. Colombia is currently number two in the world, behind only Romania, in providing erotic videochat for the web. The first of such studios was created in Cali, and there are now several large studios with dozens of rooms in which mostly women, but also transvestites and men, play with themselves in rooms designed like film sets for their clients in the USA and Europe.
