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Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]
From Wikipedia article "Prostitution in Poland":
1) A memo from the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee (including Bolesław Bierut who was then Secretary-General), dated 23 November 1955, states that in 1949 there were 4,000 sex workers in Poland, in 1954 1,700 and that 6,000 had been arrested.
2) Data from the Ministry of the Interior, dated 9 February 1957 refer to 1,500 workers in the six major cities.
3) After the fall of the iron curtain (Żelazna kurtyna) in 1989. Changes in Polish society included increasing tourism and trade with the West, acceptability of foreign currency and expanding hotel business, all factors conducive to the growth of the sex trade. Although liable to a large error margin, estimates of the numbers of sex workers were 7,267 in 1962, and 9,847 in 1969. Sometimes referred to as "Servants of Venus" (Służebnice Wenery).
So let's assume Polish bureaucrats were hopeless liars, and that they purposefully underestimated the number of prostitutes in communist Poland
by 5 times.Poland's population in 1969 was 32.5M people. Half of them were women, or 16.25M people. Taking my 5X assumption in hand, that there were actually as many as 50,000 prostitutes, that still ends up being around 0.3% of Poland's female population. If you go by the actual statistics collected, it is 0.06%. So Paulina is being quite generous with her percentages.