I was advertising some stuff for sale on Craig’s List and noticed a listing called Services-Erotic. Ever curious, I checked it out. There are over 400 posts just today. These are thinly veiled ads for prostitution. And Craig’s list certainly isn’t the only game in town.
I must be incredibly naive but I was amazed that there must be thousands of girls in the DC area turning tricks. This doesn’t include the streetwalkers on 14th street (or did they clean that up?).
I’m not sure this is really such a factual question but is prostitution really that rampant? You’d think the cops would just be using this as a to-do list.
On the Portland, OR Craigslist, that particular classification usually has lots of ads for online chat, webcams, or websites for services. There are usually only 5-10 distinct local “working girls”, as far as I can tell
Out here the SF/SJ lists do have quite a few “pros” more or less openly advertising. Some are a massage parlor with a fake pic, some are individiduals with a real pic. In either case, they tend to run that same ad or a close variation of it over and over. In a list of 400, there are likely 12-20 different advertisers.
CookingWithGas, if you take a look at the content of those posts, you’ll see that a very large number of them are repeats from the same 5 to 10 people. A fair number are also advertisements for webcam shows and not prostitution. Throw in a mix of people advertising for Viagakra and its ilk, and some more people with blatant attempts at just obtaining your email address so they can spam you and you pretty quickly add up to the amount of posts you see. I’d guess that in a given day, there’s probably only about 20 or so (I’m at work and don’t really wanna load that page to look and count…) actual offers of an escort on Craigslist.
