# I Pit idiots/hypocrites unconcerned about America's sex trafficking **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-idiots-hypocrites-unconcerned-about-americas-sex-trafficking/583520 "2011-05-28T02:48:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 92
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-idiots-hypocrites-unconcerned-about-americas-sex-trafficking/583520/92 "2011-07-03T21:02:55Z")
> [@lexi](#): > > The numbers may not be as high as 300,000 - but if a half a million person city has perhaps 200 underage girls working the streets or though backpages or other online services - I get a number around 125,000 youth prostitutes in the USA. This is not unreasonable considering what I have seen in my life. You see what the problem with your number is? **YOU JUST COMPLETELY MADE IT UP!** I don’t think I’ve ever capitalized an entire sentence before in my life, but that was astounding. You can’t just make up statistics. You seem like a nice and reasonable person, you must understand the intellectual danger or pulling numbers out of your ass like that and trying to use them to shape policies. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-idiots-hypocrites-unconcerned-about-americas-sex-trafficking/583520)._