Craigslist's Adult Services Section - The Woman Who Brought it Down

[ExNavyInHouston]

Here's the "Lead" from the story:

Ever since Craigslist shut down the adult-services section on its American sites, there’s been a lot of talk about independent sex workers who’ve lost a valuable tool of their trade. Melissa Petro, a New York elementary school teacher, was suspended from her job Monday because of a Huffington Post piece she wrote about her Craigslist-enabled dabbling in prostitution.

“For all the ‘victims’ of the ‘adult services’ section of Craigslist.org, I would venture there are a considerable number of individuals like myself—free thinking, entrepreneurial human beings with choices and responsibilities—whose real-life experiences, not to mention sources of income, are being stifled by our so-called advocates,” she wrote.

Here's the link to the rest of the story:

The Woman Who Beat Craigslist

Source: The Daily Beast

[Raphael]

Misguided people, who think shutting down an ad site will solve problems of child & forced prostitution.

Shutting down Craigslit (and other venues if ever they get around to that) will only make it more difficult to flesh out trafficeers in child porn, as it gets them to look for more hidden and therefore harder to locate means of doing their business.

[wallstreet]

Originally Posted by Raphael

Misguided people, who think shutting down an ad site will solve problems of child & forced prostitution.

Shutting down Craigslit (and other venues if ever they get around to that) will only make it more difficult to flesh out trafficeers in child porn, as it gets them to look for more hidden and therefore harder to locate means of doing their business.

absolutely...sad but true

[boardman]

Legislating morality is an exercise in futility.

[Jusanotherdude]

Originally Posted by wallstreet

absolutely...sad but true

Yeah, trying to make direct correlations or definitive causational statements on things like that end up being proven to the contrary. Fact of the matter is, the more you try to push things out of the mainstream, the larger the underground movement becomes, and as Rap said, harder to truly locate..... but whatever.... Let those "Champions of the Victimized" feel as tho they have won a "Major" Battle against the traffickers, have only pushed them from one side of the street to the other......

Yippie for them I suppose......

JaD