5 Myths About Prostitution

5 Myths About Prostitution:

1. Prostitution is an alleyway business.
2. Men visit sex workers for sex.
3. Most prostitutes are addicted to drugs or were abused as children.
4. Prostitutes and police are enemies.
5. Closing Craigslist's "adult services" section will significantly affect the sex trade.

Pricing Bareback

A new take on the Levitt's prostitution paper.

Prostitution and Price

Here we have an example of price differences by nationality of prostitute. There are many things that could explain the lower prices received by Malay girls. Anything from preferences of Johns, to supply of prostitutes.  Malay prostitutes might be more likely to have a STD so the lower price reflects a discount due to risk of disease for the John.

Prohibition Never Works

Making something illegal does not eliminate the demand. And it often leads to an increase in other illegal activities as well. For example, make strip clubs illegal, and you'll have underground clubs pop up, but the underground clubs will likely also offer other illegal services, like prostitution. The lesson? Keep strip clubs legal, regulate them, and you'll be better off.

Here that Toledo?

Associated Press - February 3, 2008 1:55 PM ET
Secret nightclubs open as strip club restrictions go into effect
CLEVELAND (AP) - Police say underground nightclubs where patrons can smoke freely and watch strippers after midnight have opened in some of Cleveland's residential neighborhoods since the state began enforcing new restrictions on strip clubs and public smoking last year.

Some of the nightclubs, also called "smokehouses," offer customers the opportunity to have sex with prostitutes.

Informants have told police that patrons are mostly white suburban men. Customers bring their own liquor, cigarettes and cigars.

Cleveland police Detective Tom Shoulders says the smokehouses are comparable to the illegal gin houses, or "speakeasys" that operated during Prohibition in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Craig'slist

And I thought it was just used to sell old bike stuff.

“Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now,” said Richard McGuire, Nassau’s assistant chief of detectives. “Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest.”