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thenewgreen  ·  4160 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The New Prostitutes
    Megan Waterman took three- or four-day working trips to Long Island from her home in Portland and made $1,500 on a busy night. And Amber Lynn Costello, a North Carolina native who lived briefly in West Babylon, Long Island, once raised $3,800 in just three days to bail out her boyfriend from jail — all, her friends said, from Craigslist.
It's crazy to me that the same site that I used to buy my used bicycle was also a place to find a prostitute.




humanodon  ·  4160 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why? I guess most people don't use prostitutes, but prostitution is everywhere. I mean, they're in the bible. The bible is on the internet. So too, are prostitutes.

I love ridiculous syllogisms. Really though, prostitutes are everywhere because the demand is everywhere. That said, I think more effort needs to go into legitimizing it as a profession, if only to protect sex workers by recognizing them as human beings earning a wage. Also, it would create inroads to deal with human trafficking.