NBC - 3/12/2014 - Sex industry study: Internet is driving prostitution off streets
I saw this and figured I post it here. How long has the internet been around? Seems like they're a little late to the party. Maybe I should retire from IT and become a pimp.
[URL]http://www.cnbc.com/id/101488619[/URL]
Sex industry study: Internet is driving prostitution off streets.
Published: Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014.
2:44 PM ET.
By: Steve James.
The world's oldest profession is adopting a new business model; street-walkers are heading to the information highway.
A first-ever study of the USA Sex industry shows that many prostitutes prefer to make transactions over the Internet now, where rates are higher and they are less vulnerable to arrest or assault.
"There is still street activity, but on the Internet they do not have to operate in the shadows," said Meredith Dank, senior research associate of the Urban Institute, which carried out the survey for the USA Justice Department.
The Internet is also more lucrative, there is a higher price point," said Dank, lead author of the study on the economics of the underground sex industry.
The five-year study focused on eight cities—Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Seattle, San Diego, and Washington—and was based on interviews with prostitutes and pimps in all venues including massage parlors, brothels and escort services. It did not include the pornographic movie industry, which is legal.
The Justice Department hopes the study, which focused on the business aspects of the sex economy, will help law enforcement better understand the motivations of its participants, and improve the way victims are treated.
The study found the underground sex economy in the eight cities brought in nearly $1 billion per year, ranging from $300 million in 2007 in Atlanta to $40 million in Denver. Pimps said they took home between $5,000 and $32,833 a week—10 percent of them take credit cards—and advertise on social media and sites like [URL]Craigslist.com[/URL] and [URL]Backpage.com[/URL] to attract customers and new workers.
Dank said prices for sex acts were comparable across the country, with the average going rate of $150 per hour, about the same as for a New York therapist. But that is down from the average $250 before the recession.
"Anecdotally, we heard that the downturn in the economy reduced the price point," Dank said.
Indeed, the study said the Great Recession forced some sex workers to offer discounts, with Atlanta law officers reporting prostitutes offering "Veteran's Day Specials.".
—By NBC's Steve James.
Gunman breaks into prostitute’s motel room and robs her
MADISON HEIGHTS — At press time, police continued to search for a man who allegedly paid a prostitute for sex at a Madison Heights motel, left the room afterward and came back, shooting a gun through the partially opened door before breaking in and taking the prostitute's cash and cellphone.
No one was hurt during the encounter.
[URL]https://www.candgnews.com/news/gunman-breaks-prostitute%E2%80%99s-motel-room-and-robs-her[/URL]
John R and Eight Mile last night
Saw this on the news yesterday a guy was shot at while talking to a SW right on John are, lucky only his vehicle was hit by bullets. As always be careful out there.
[URL]http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Man-OK-after-bullets-strike-truck-in-Detroit/25147122[/URL]
Southfield Stabbing - Quality Inn / Telegr
Don't know if its monger related or not, but a 50 yr old was stabbed to death and they have a 26 yr old in custody.
[URL]http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/southfield-police-investigate-murder-at-quality-inn-on-telegraph-road/25756248[/URL]
Did you even read the article?
[QUOTE=IMonger2;2080232]Don't know if its monger related or not, but a 50 yr old was stabbed to death and they have a 26 yr old in custody.
[URL]http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/southfield-police-investigate-murder-at-quality-inn-on-telegraph-road/25756248[/URL][/QUOTE]Did you even take 10 seconds to read / skim the article? Son stabs Father... Man is 66 son is 27, son called Police.
No contest plea for former you of M basketball captain
[URL]http://www.freep.com/article/20140709/NEWS04/307090147/[/URL]
"The trio was arrested in April after Macomb County Sheriff's detectives talked with one of the men, via the Internet, who solicited sex for drugs. He told investigators that he was going to pick up some friends and bring "snow" to exchange for sex. " Former Michigan basketball captain Leslie Rockymore was sentenced to a year on probation and $495 in fines and court costs after pleading no contest today to a reduced misdemeanor charge in a case in which he and two men were accused of offering to trade drugs for sex. No mention of the car they were in which was probably impounded and the lawyers fees, and I wonder which site that MCS used to do this.
Hustler club OTC activity
[URL]http://thenewsherald.com/articles/2015/04/24/news/police/doc553a4ecb5c6e8589680024.txt[/URL]
"According to a police report, a 43-year-old man who lives on the north side of Lincoln Park told police he chased the two women — ages 18 and 22 — out of his house with a machete at about 5 am After the 18-year-old allegedly hit him in his head with a baseball bat and tried to steal his wallet.
The report said the man, who suffered head injuries from the assault, told police he brought the women back to his house after their shift to "party. " ".
"All three individuals involved in the incident refused medical treatment and have so far declined to press charges. ".
Sex, drug stings nab more from suburbs than city
[URL]http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2015/10/05/sex-drug-stings-nab-suburbs-city/73428090/[/URL]
5 shot outside Penthouse Lounge
[URL]http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/five-people-shot-after-argument-at-gentlemens-club-in-detroit[/URL]
