In Spain the last frontier of sex is to deal with the crisis. In principal Iberian city more and more real estate ads that offer rooms for rent in exchange for sex. The initiative, according to El Mundo and El Pais, is targeted primarily at students or at least to young people with few financial resources willing to share a roof with regular intimate relationships.

Tenders, explicit, leaving no room for doubt of any kind. “Alquilo habitacion a cambio de sexo”, “Busco chica para compartir piso a cambio de sexo” ( “Rent a room in exchange for sex,” “I want a girl to share an apartment in exchange for sex), we read about many university boards of the country and on online advertisements. The phenomenon in great expansion, the daily El Mundo devoted a full page and even El Paìs is interested in the new trend hard.

To offer apartments in exchange for sex, however, are not only men looking for companionship. Also, student tenants, in fact, have started to put ads unequivocal. “I am a Spanish student of 27 years old, seeking a room in shared apartment in exchange for sex, if possible with Spanish, more than 25 years, working,” offers a listing over by El Mundo.

To unravel all the mechanisms, a journalist from the newspaper came into the game. Was proposed as a tenant to some advertiser. The first is young, offering food and accommodation in Madrid for “sexual intercourse three days.” Generous, it also adds the carriage drive tenants to work. “We can meet, see the house, have the first report, and then give you the keys of the house,” suggests. Another, Pedro, offers, always on the internet, “camera girl or a free pair of girls of good education in return for sexual relations from time to time.” And ‘the second time, said: with the first tenant, things went well. “We have established conditions, only rules of coexistence: the sex, I try to make sure it is cold.”

Usually the first contacts are by e-mail, with exchange of photos, some are calling in “lingerie”. Then the first meeting, and if all goes well, click the “contract”, usually informally. “I left with my girlfriend and I know many people,” said a boy from Barcelona, 23 years, which in turn provides a roof in exchange for sex. The economic crisis that has befallen Spain seems one of the springs of the phenomenon, but not only. “It has to do with the loneliness and the trivialization of sex,” says the psychologist Erik Pescador. And then the people are ‘less capable of sustaining relationships face to face, many use the Internet, the marriage agencies … and this concludes Pescador, “is perhaps only the last flight forward.”