Fascinating read from today's newspaper:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...rostitutes/?hp
What's interesting is how much money some women make as online providers, compared to what they were making before. Also the worst-case risk from not screening clients -- remains of up to ten women who worked sites like Craigs List and Backpage have been found on Long Island. And the solution to the problem, which is obvious, and which most of the providers on this site avail themselves of:
"Escorts face danger not because of the Internet but because they’re still forced to work underground. In a different world, technology could be harnessed to reduce the dangers of prostitution. The University of Colorado law professor Scott Peppet has floated the possibility of a “technology-enabled sex market” where escorts and clients are all pre-vetted and predators are screened out. “The law, however, is hostile to such innovation,” Professor Peppet writes. “It currently criminalizes not just prostitution itself, but activities — including technologies — that advance or facilitate sex markets.” As it stands, escorts online remain invisible, where they are vulnerable to predators."
"The New Prostitutes" - New York Times
