By Duncan Kennedy
BBC News, Mexico City
Go to the centre of Mexico City after dark and you can see the women start to colonise the district.
The grey suits that are everywhere during daylight hours give way to multi-coloured miniskirts as the time arrives for a different kind of product to be traded.
There are not enough street corners to accommodate all the women. Instead, there are rows of them along the main boulevards.
The parade of women means the male clients can stay in the dry warmth of their cars as they make their impersonal choice.
One estimate says there are 3,000 prostitutes in the city at any one time.
But what happens when they get older and can no longer walk the streets?
One answer lies behind an unremarkable brown door of a two-storey block in the city's poorer northern neighbourhood.
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Further informationen and links regarding Casa Xochiquetzal:
Community Center for Sex Workers in Mexico
Elderly sex workers live in appalling conditions on the streets of Mexico City. Independent sex workers have the need to come together to hold seminars, organize reflection groups, and take primary- to high school-classes. Casa Xochiquetzal, a community center in one of the poorest and most marginalized neighborhoods in Mexico City, will give older and independent sex workers the space and opportunity to gain dignity and learn about their human rights.
