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| blackonidragon7 Member  318 Posts 2/10 |  Posted - Feb 2 2014 : 11:38PMI got into a heated discussion before the Super Bowl. Actually the plan was that after the Super Bowl went off, everyone would go to the strip club. I listen to a buddy of mine talk about how he was going to spend over $200 on a stripper. I'm sure most of you know how the conversation goes. Here's a fella who brags on how much money he makes a month but throws it away. So I made a suggestion: Instead of spending that $200 at strip club, why not spend it on an escort? He looked at me like I was crazy. He went on grade-school teacher tirade about STDs. All I'm saying is taking a chance with a stripper poses the same risk as the escort. Besides, spending $200 on a few dances, where you can't touch, isn't worth it. I'd use that money for one hour or so with an escort. So what's your preference ADT members? What would you do? Escort? Or Stripper? [Link] |
| Macko69 Senior Member Gone for a walk. 1985 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Feb 3 2014 : 1:23AM Edited by - macko69 on 2/3/2014 1:26:31 AM [Link] |
| Macko69 Senior Member Gone for a walk. 1985 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Feb 3 2014 : 1:25AM This isn't in any way a morality thing. I don't have any issues with a guy or girl who pays for the services of escorts. I can't imagine blowing $200 at a strip club, though. I don't think I've ever spent more than $80 at a strip club in one night, and I always had a lot of fun. [Link] |
| bigshawn_45 New Member 1 Posts 2/14 | Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 3:25AM [Link] |
| blackonidragon7 Member 318 Posts 2/10 | Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 9:58AM All I'm saying is, I'm not gonna pay to look and not touch. [Link] |
| Steve6167 New Member 2 Posts 2/14 | Posted - Feb 21 2014 : 10:56PM [Link] |
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| sickguy Deactivated User I'm unofficially Beauty Dior's #1 Fan 736 Posts 9/06 | Posted - Feb 22 2014 : 7:14AM Mongering here in Canada is way better, and we don't even come close to what some of the EE countries offer. [Link] |
| Macko69 Senior Member Gone for a walk. 1985 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Feb 22 2014 : 1:57PM [Link] |
| Bornyo Deactivated Member 803 Posts 12/04 | Posted - Feb 23 2014 : 2:38PM Edited by - bornyo on 2/23/2014 2:38:26 PM [Link] |
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Goldstein  All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Mar 12 2014 : 10:43AM The New York Times By ANNIE LOWREY MARCH 12, 2014 WASHINGTON — A street prostitute in Dallas may make as little as $5 per sex act. But pimps can take in $33,000 a week in Atlanta, where the sex business brings in an estimated $290 million per year. It is not nearly as lucrative in Denver, where prostitution and other elements of an underground trade are worth about $40 million. Those are some of the findings of a landmark government-sponsored report on the size and structure of the sex economy, including massage parlors, brothels and expensive escort services. The study also found that four in five pimps elect not to deal drugs and that little money trades hands in the child pornography business. The report does not estimate the size of the illicit sex economy nationwide, instead analyzing the trade as of 2007 in eight cities: Miami, Dallas, Washington, Denver, San Diego, Seattle, Atlanta and Kansas City, Mo. The report, commissioned by the Justice Department, is intended to address what researchers describe as wide gaps in the understanding of how the underground sex trade works, especially in the Internet age.  “It is the first of its kind to look in-depth and create a road map of the commercial sex economy — from point of entry to reasons to stay within it, and what the business and operations structure looks like,” said Meredith Dank of the Urban Institute, the report’s lead author. “We’d hear numbers from law enforcement and advocacy groups. But there was never any empirical rigor that was used to estimate its size.” The study focused on the business side, rather than on consumers, and researchers conducted more than 250 interviews with law enforcement officers, lawyers, pimps, sex traffickers, prostitutes and child pornographers, many of whom were in jail. Those interviews provide a wealth of data on pricing, market structures and the sex workers’ motivations. Researchers not involved in the study say that it has produced the best estimates yet of the sex trade’s financial impact, but that the numbers underscore the need for more and better data. “They were scraping to find data that was reliable in just these communities,” said Amy Farrell of Northeastern University, who applauded the study’s findings. “And they found a lot of variation across communities.” The study did find pricing was consistent across the country, with $150 an hour the common going rate for prostitution. The age, race and drug use of a sex worker affected the price. Pimps told the interviewers that they could charge more for white women and younger women. But, one said, “Honestly, you just have to stay away from minors.” “I’ve never known a pimp that got in trouble for messing with adults,” the pimp said. “Law enforcement focuses on minors.” The sex business can be hugely lucrative, the study found. But sex workers reported burning through money as soon as they made it, and their expenses were high, too. One pimp in San Diego reported paying a hotel $24,000. Another spent $3,000 to $4,000 a week on shopping sprees for employees. “Prostitution and pimping — in many cases that’s not particularly profitable,” Ms. Farrell said. “Some parts are more marketable than others.” Unlike other illicit markets — in counterfeit consumer goods or drugs, for example — the sex economy is mostly made up of small-scale operations, the study found. On average, pimps keep five employees at any given time, and turnover is high. “Girls would always come and go,” said one of the people interviewed. “Work for a weekend and then head back to the boyfriend after saying they’ve made enough.” Generally, pimps said they preferred to work alone. “Pimps are like eagles,” one respondent said. “They soar by themselves.” But they do rely on informal social networks, trading tips on how to avoid law enforcement and for the movement of employees from city to city in established “circuits,” like between Everett, Seattle and Tacoma in Washington State. As other studies have shown, the Internet has had a profound effect on the sex economy. Half of respondents advertised online. One in four recruited employees through sites like Craigslist and Backpage. Most sex transactions were once negotiated on the streets, the study found, but most are now arranged online, where rates are significantly higher. The recession has caused some in the sex industry to offer deals or drop prices. Atlanta law enforcement officials reported some sex workers even offered Veterans Day specials. The study also shed light on why people get into sex work. Pimps and sex workers often said they were encouraged by their families to do so, and many cited poverty as a major factor in their decisions. About 30 percent of those interviewed said a family member was also involved in sex work. “When I was little, I was on welfare, I lived in the projects,” one pimp said. “Dope fiends, pimps and prostitutes. Gang bangers, helicopter over your roof. That’s no way to live. Seeing glitz and glamour, I always wanted that. Coming up like that, having square jobs was never appealing.” The researchers also analyzed the specialized markets for Asian massage parlors and Latino brothels, which operated in all eight cities studied. The massage parlor business — often with a legal front hiding illegal trade — is growing. The number of parlors jumped to 4,790 in 2013 from 4,197 in 2011, the study found. Among the study’s most interesting findings is that the market for child pornography in the United States is small because it is generally traded for free. And most of the people interviewed about their use of child pornography described it as a victimless crime. “It’s like when you’re buying drugs you’re supporting crime or supporting terrorism,” one individual said. “They aren’t getting any money from me to do any bad things or other things.” The study should help law enforcement officials understand the sex trade and opportunities to help its most vulnerable victims get out, experts said. It also shows how much more research the topic could use. “The more empirical evidence we have, the better understanding we’ll get,” said Sheldon Zhang, a sociologist at San Diego State University. “It is the same as in the medical model. If you think that cancer is a problem, a serious problem, you need to invest money to understand it.” [Link] |
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