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Space Bar
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:17 am Post subject: Hookers change, get wired; johns squeezed |
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How Tech Tools Transformed New York's Sex Trade
* By Sudhir Venkatesh Email Author
* January 31, 2011 |
* 12:00 pm |
* Wired February 2011
What is it like to be a prostitute? The answer depends on whether you work out of a client�s car or a $500-a-night hotel room. In 1999, I set out to study the effects of efforts to bring the suburban middle class back to New York City. The gentrification of Times Square made for a unique social experiment: What happens to sex workers when they are pushed off the streets and into the outer boroughs? I had little idea at the time that I�d be documenting the rise of an entirely new, upper-end �indoor� market, in which streetwalkers have given way to a professional class.
The economies of big cities have been reshaped by a demand for high-end entertainment, cuisine, and �wellness� goods. In the process, �dating,� �massage,� �escort,� and �dancing� have replaced hustling and streetwalking. A luxury brand has been born.
These changes have made sex for hire more expensive. But luxe pricing has in turn helped make prostitution, well� somewhat respectable. Whereas men once looked for a secretive tryst, now they seek a mistress with no strings attached, a �girlfriend experience,� and they are willing to pay top dollar for it.
more and a bunch of charts and graphics at link, like...
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FREAKONOMICS
What sex workers charge (and keep) for traditional intercourse:
# Streetwalker Charges an average of $75, but her pimp gets a 25 percent cut (30 percent on weekends).
# Self-employed $150, and she keeps it all, but she has to pay for online marketing, transportation, security, bribes to shopkeepers, and drugs for clients.
# �Blue-collar� agency The agency charges $350 on average, and the sex worker gets 60 percent of that. The agency pays for advertising and on-call security officers. The client covers the hotel room and drinks.
# Upscale agency The agency and sex worker are paid separately�if one gets the standard $2,000, the other gets the same. The client covers expenses. |
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Illysook
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:59 am Post subject: |
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It isn't that difficult to find someone who will consent to having sex. Men who hire prostitutes want to be in control. They want to have a woman who must do whatever they say. Women who have other valid choices do not become prostitutes.
"Upscale" or not, it's still the same old thing. |
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Kepler
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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She has used the internet to market herself and make $500 an hour as a high end escort. If she could only earn $100 an hour it wouldn't be worth it and she would have continued working as a computer programmer:
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"She is a very bright woman. She understands the economics pretty well," said Dubner. "She said, 'Thank God prostitution is illegal,' 'cause if it weren't, I wouldn't be making $500 an hour; I'd be offered maybe $100 an hour, and I wouldn't be a prostitute. I would probably be back doing what I was doing -- which was working as a computer technician for a Fortune 50 company.'"
But Allie had ambitions of working for a different Fortune-listed company -- her own. Adapting business concepts of low overhead, market value and the technological expansiveness of the Internet, she used her bedroom as an office and took a high-heeled first step into the world of high-end escorts.
"I originally thought it would be thrilling to try once," Allie told ABC News in an interview. And it wasn't. It wasn't as glamorous as I thought. But it wasn't awful. And the guy was very nice. I walked away from it thinking, "That wasn't so bad. It was probably better than a lot of my online dating situations and now I have a car payment paid."
For Allie, it was a case of simple mathematics.
"It just became really hard to sit at a computer and program for 40, 50, 60 hours a week for the exact same amount of money I would get going to the Four Seasons for three hours and have a bottle of champagne and, you know, in the company of a gentleman," said Allie. |
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/superfreakonomics-prostitutions-perks/story?id=8844755&page=2 |
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Space Bar
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
| It isn't that difficult to find someone who will consent to having sex. |
I guess you've never been an adolescent boy.  |
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iRock
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:02 am Post subject: |
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| Space Bar wrote: |
| Illysook wrote: |
| It isn't that difficult to find someone who will consent to having sex. |
I guess you've never been an adolescent boy. |
I bet adolescent boys never had that problem around you  |
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conrad2
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| There will always be women (regardless of culture, race, and socio-economic status) who prefer to earn their money by providing sex rather than picking crops, waitressing, computer programming and even getting married. |
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| iRock wrote: |
| Space Bar wrote: |
| Illysook wrote: |
| It isn't that difficult to find someone who will consent to having sex. |
I guess you've never been an adolescent boy. |
I bet adolescent boys never had that problem around you |
+100.....hAHAHAHA |
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nw25th
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| $225 for an HJ? Who in the hell even wants a handjob?!?! |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| hondaicivic wrote: |
| iRock wrote: |
| Space Bar wrote: |
| Illysook wrote: |
| It isn't that difficult to find someone who will consent to having sex. |
I guess you've never been an adolescent boy. |
I bet adolescent boys never had that problem around you |
+100.....hAHAHAHA |
Yeah, that was pretty good.  It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it. 
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| $225 for an HJ? Who in the hell even wants a handjob?!?! |
Especially at $45/finger!
Maybe a rich religious guy who does not believe that it counts as sex so he can still be faithful to his wife? |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
| It isn't that difficult to find someone who will consent to having sex. Men who hire prostitutes want to be in control. They want to have a woman who must do whatever they say. |
Some do no doubt. Most just want to have sex with an attractive woman. That is all.
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Women who have other valid choices do not become prostitutes.
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I've heard the same thing about teaching ESL. |
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