Well, if you believe the New York Post, there is a certain type of sex worker that seems to be doing well…
I’d imagine most of the sex being had by delegates and other pols at the convention is extra-marital.
Eh, maybe.
I’m going to guess that, at least over the last 3-4 election cycles, the male-female ratio within the delegates, staff, and other convention-goers is more balanced at the Dem convention than at the GOP one, which could somewhat lessen the need to pay for play.
I’ve never been to a national convention. But my impression is that a good percentage of the convention-related people who show up in the city are not delegates to the convention. Many of them are members of the media, protestors and activists of various sorts, and various other hangers on and technical people.
In sum, I don’t know if you can attribute whatever is or isn’t going on in the local sex scene at the time of the convention to delegates specifically.
This would make sense in this day and age – direct, private one-on-one hookup as preferred to paper-trailed professional services with the accruing risk of Spitzering yourself. But even so, I’d take ANY such offering under these circumstances as a potential oppo/blackmail hazard. TMZ exists.
For a few years now I’ve been seeing reports that political conventions and big sporting events are not really quite the sexwork industry bonanza they were taken to be. Though that in turn may involve the myth itself having a chicken-and-egg effect of creating an oversupply, as suggested in the Gawker article.
Plus there is a higher relative number of actual true believers in more recent conventions, as opposed to old-school machine politicians. But more to the point in this the age of connected recording devices everywhere, people may tread more lightly. The strip club article is no surprise since you KNOW (or you BELIEVE you know) a camera is aimed at the door from a nearby building/parked car, trying to pick up anyone who looks sort of delegatish; that may influence more than street-safety concerns.
Fair enough. But if you think the NY Post is a credible source (which frankly I do not) they are saying that their gay sex business -mostly first time nervous married guys - is going through the roof - far better than in the past. That seems to fit the profile of a closeted married gay man. The male prostitutes don’t seem to think they are servicing media folk.
Interestingly for female prostitutes business is slower than usual. Maybe that reflects the Craigslist effect. Assuming you believe the NY Post. Which I do not.
Well, you know what they say: Politics makes strange bedfellows.
I’ve been to a convention. It is a celebratory atmosphere and the bars certainly do good business, so I wouldn’t be surprised if hooking up gets done. I agree that the delegates are just a small part of the equation.
I have been a delegate to a minor state party’s convention, and I have been a lobbyist working a number of political action conventions in organized labor.
There’s passion, power, and alcohol at these things.
My first night at my first convention, I didn’t have any condoms and paid dearly for my oversight. I rectified that error and never made it again.
In other words, OP- lots of sex, probably a good bit of the extramarital kind.
I’m clearly doing it wrong.
For every one of those “trysts”, its good to remember that there is someone from housekeeping who has to clean up that gross rude mess.
It also good to remember just who is less likely to put any money in the housekeeping envelopes and just who is more likely to add as a “Tip” something rude written on the outside like a racist epithet or a “get a second job” snark line.
I can believe this. At least in my state, the Democrats actually have a rule that delegations have to be gender-balanced.
I’m reminded of an old political joke: What did one politician say to the other politician?
What page are you on? 
Siam Sam wrote: “Well, you know what they say: Politics makes strange bedfellows. " Or Bedfellows make strange politics.”