The reasons are many: cheap and plentiful talent, few legal restrictions and a tradition of artistic freedoms that reaches back to the communist era.
Other east European capitals may share some of these attributes. But unlike them, Budapest has built on the artistic openness that was the envy of other nations in the former Soviet bloc. And the sex business mushroomed with the end of communist rule in Peep shows, massage parlors and live sex shows have spread through the country. She won best actress honors at the porn film festival in Cannes, France, in May. Police said the ring primarily used girls between the ages of 11 and 16 to perform sex acts with adult males and females in films sold in western Europe and North America.
Kovi Kovacs said that France, like Hungary, produces about porno movies a year. About are shot in Italy, and five times that many are made in Germany, mostly in an almost production-line environment, he said. What makes Hungarian films special is that they are shot on location, Kovi Kovacs said.
Last August, a porn movie made on the No. But no laws to curb the sex trade are in the offing. In upscale hotels in the city center, high-priced call girls are an obvious and constant part of the decor. They stand near schools and churches.
Most are unwilling to talk to reporters. But one, who gave her name as Aniko and her age as mids, was prepared to stop for five minutes to air her views of a proposal to banish all Budapest prostitutes to isolated Obuda Island in the Danube River. That is 10 times the average take-home pay.
