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Originally Posted by blowpop
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Am I the only one who was unimpressed by this article?
The only thing I was really fascinated by (and am always fascinated by) is the "normal" worlds fascination with us hookers lol! We're consistently demonized and maligned, but everyone wants to know every little detail about our seemingly sordid lives. "What a prostitute always carries?" WTF is that? I never carry band-aids! What am I gonna do with band-aids? My dates don't involve broken skin! Nor spare panties for the chance to sell my used ones lol. And upcharge 25% for unprotected sex? Come on!
From movies like
Pretty Woman and
The Girlfriend Experience to shows like
Cathouse and
Secret Diary of a Call Girl, hookers truly are the people America loves to hate.
But about the article:
Soooo disappointing. I was first familiarized with Venkatesh's work when I read the Freakanomics.
http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org/books...ader-for-a-day I didn't read
Gang Leader for a Day, but I got the jist of it from Freakonomics, lol. It was great. He approached sociology like an investigative journalist and showed aspects of gang life that had never been presented before. Awesome, awesome work.
But this? He condenses the tech revolution's impact on the world's oldest profession into two fucking pages. Its sensational, fluffed-up crap. I wanna know where he got these numbers. And who he talked to. But I guess facts don't really matter when an "expert" puts forth "numbers" about out little world. People don't really want to know facts... they want empty evidence to support their irrational views about our lives.