I have had good luck selling and buying stuff on craigslist, but never realized all the possibilities.
In Phoenix yesterday, a woman was arrested for prostitution. She had placed an ad in craigslist. The newspaper reported she made $1400 in two weeks of “work.”
Ah, the free enterprise system.
Why would you put the word “work” in quotes?
Why make it illegal?
$700 a week for what seems to me would be hazardous on so many levels doesn’t sound all that attractive.
Ok, yeah, it’s sex. Wheee.
But it’s not sex on your own terms, THAT makes it work.
WTF. She’s not being raped. She is having sex on her own terms.
Assuming $100 per hour, she’s working an average of an hour a day. I’d love a job where I could work an hour or two a day and make enough money to live on.
I guess that assumes that:
A) You’re a guy
and
B) You’re the one calling the shots once you’re in the room.
(B) is where I’m going with the “your own terms”, which could probably have been said better. A woman, alone in a room with a guy that she doesn’t know, doing pretty much what he wants, which might not necessarily be what she’d prefer to be doing at the time.
Let’s say - for example - you take $100 from a woman to go into a hotel room with her and have sex. Ok, goodie, right?
Now let’s say once you’re there, she, being bigger and stronger than you, decides she wants something clearly NOT on your list of “fun things to do during sex”. You say no, she says yes, and reminds you, perhaps by force who is the customer and who is the hooker here.
Let’s assume for the sake or argument, that you actually do get paid instead of being, oh I don’t know…robbed or beaten?
Granted, from a men’s POV, getting paid to have sex sounds like a sweet American Gigolo kind of gig.
All I’m saying is that for the risk, the uncertainty, the probably good deal of time that would have to go into actually being IN the business, when it comes down to it, $700 a week is pretty small time, and sure as hell wouldn’t be worth it if you could do something that didn’t entail all those problems, not to mention that like it or not, it can still get you busted.
Oh, and I just saw this…I’d assume a whole lot more than $100 an hour.
I mean, I hear people say…ya know?
But still.
I don’t think anyone’s saying that there isn’t an element of risk in illegal prostitution. Of course there is. But if she’s meeting her clients through an online ad the risk is reduced quite a bit versus, say, that of a streetwalker who’s picking up tricks as they drive past her corner.