We asked hundreds of sex workers advertising on Erobella across the UK and Germany whether they’re heading to the North American World Cup. 2% told us they’re going. Another 5% are considering it. For many, the harder question isn’t whether they want to go; it’s whether they’ll be allowed across the US border at all.
Applied across Erobella’s advertiser base in each market, the survey rates point to large numbers of providers planning their trip, or weighing it up.
Sex workers advertising on Erobella
How many are travelling to the World Cup 2026?
Applying the same 2% and 5% rates to the wider estimated sex-worker population in each country suggests the picture extends well beyond Erobella.
All sex workers
How many are travelling to the World Cup 2026?
Estimate. Applies the survey rates to estimated total sex-worker populations, not to Erobella’s verified user base.
The survey covered the UK and Germany only, both high-income countries whose workers can most readily afford a transatlantic trip. Taking a conservative base of around 1 million sex workers across Europe and applying a travel-affordability coefficient of 0.45 – lower than the raw income gap, because intercontinental travel rises steeply with income and much of the sector sits in lower-income countries – the same rates point to:
All Sex Workers in Europe
How many are travelling to the World Cup 2026?
Modelled estimate. Base of ~1 million sex workers across Europe (TAMPEP-derived), scaled by a 0.45 travel-affordability coefficient — reflecting that intercontinental travel rises steeply with income and that much of Europe’s sex-worker population is in lower-income countries, so rich-country (UK/German) rates overstate the continental picture. Extrapolated from a UK- and Germany-only survey; indicative only.
Under US immigration law, anyone who has engaged in prostitution within the previous ten years can be refused entry – even when that work was entirely legal where it took place, and even with no intention of working while in the country. The provision sits under Section 1182(a)(2)(D), and according to those who’ve fallen foul of it, a border officer’s suspicion can be enough.
In an interview with Erobella, Canadian escort Lucy Huxley described being pulled into secondary questioning, interrogated for hours and having her phone and luggage searched before being deported and banned. Her later admission to having worked, she says, turned a five-year ban into something she now believes is permanent.
She isn’t alone. Adult-industry workers have reported similar treatment, among them Canadian performer Milo Miles, who said he was held for more than eight hours before being issued a ten-year ban. Huxley says officials lean on tools including escort-listing sites, shared detention records and facial recognition to flag who they think is a sex worker – and that proof isn’t required, only suspicion.
