Tightgrid | Geoff Edwards

BBC: a Mexico City retirement home for the city’s retired prostitutes

The BBC recently profiled a Mexico City retirement home for the city’s prostitutes:

Until now…the sex industry had a forgotten demographic: elderly, former practitioners, discarded by the cruel forces of a market that penalises the imperfections of old age.

But after a life of violence, discrimination and exploitation, these women have at last found people who are showing them compassion.

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