# The smallest town you have seen a hooker in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 10, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784 "2019-05-10T15:58:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![sjankis630](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sjankis630](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjankis630)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/41 "2019-05-13T19:58:48Z")
Knowed out I would love to see that Rockwell! Lol. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/42 "2019-05-13T21:50:28Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I was driving through Cornelia Georgia (pop. 4000) last year and saw what I believed to be the town hooker. She was a tall, overweight black woman in her 30’s, wore a tube top with no bra, spandex pants to show she got back, big dangly earrings and matching necklace, hotel neon spiked heels, black lipstick, and carried around a big floppy purse, every bit the stereotype. That area of town was an otherwise deserted train depo. Could have been a Norman Rockwell painting. You sure she wasn’t headed to Wal-Mart? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/43 "2019-05-13T21:54:58Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > My hometown had about 3000 people. I’m pretty sure I saw a young lady being picked up for commerce there a few years ago. Also, at least one classmate of mine was known for \*turning tricks. At least in her case, I knew she was an addict, and that’s an all too common story. > > \*But not when she was a classmate–the addiction took her over many years later. Now that you mention this, when I was in 7th grade, I had the misfortune of sitting in band next to a 9th grader who was a despicable, vile bully who was just as ugly on the inside as she was on the outside. I heard, more than once from more than one person, that all the bragging she did about drugs, and what she did to get them, was NOT made up - she really was turning tricks for dope. When I saw her sister’s obituary a couple years later (leukemia), that explained a lot. ☹ There was also a rumor that one of my college classmates, who was married with a young child and got divorced while we were in school, was paying girls in our class (one of them being a HS friend of my sister’s) to do, ahem, certain things that his wife didn’t want to do. I actually find it believable, even though this guy had his kid when they were both 16, and he looked like a cross between Chris Farley and Jabba the Hut. (I told a friend about it, and she replied, “Oh, hell, I know women who’ll do that for free.”) ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/44 "2019-05-14T02:32:38Z")
Dutch Harbor, AK. Pop. 4376 in the 2010 census had prostitutes when I was there in the early 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/45 "2019-05-14T05:55:58Z")
> [@LoneRhino](#): > > Dutch Harbor, AK. Pop. 4376 in the 2010 census had prostitutes when I was there in the early 90’s. I can believe it. Isn’t that town the hub of giant crab fishing? I’ve also heard that Anchorage has lots of open prostitution. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/46 "2019-05-14T09:55:19Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > The nearest town to me has a population of 10,000. Call me naïve, but I can’t recall ever seeing anyone who might be a streetwalker here. If she was wearing the stereotypical show-off, easy-off clothes, she’d stand out so glaringly that she’d probably make the front page news (not much else to write about, y’know?) > > To blend in, she’d have to wear a flannel shirt, overalls, dairy boots, and a cowboy hat. But if she blended in, how would she attract business? I am betting like the rust belt there is a bar/business/place where she could blend in (sort of - basically be ignored) and do well. I’m talking curb-service type prostitution and not just someone who turns a trick now and again to score some weed or for the thrills. Hookers have never been my thing but I have a friend who claims to be able to find a “pro” in just about any town in America given an hour and a hundred bucks or so with the expectation of a lot of change possible. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/47 "2019-05-14T13:53:28Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Dude! _Always_ ask for a price quote. According to the episode of Cops I watched, simply asking for a price quote is enough to get you arrested for solicitation. Ask at your own risk and hope she is not a UCC ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/48 "2019-05-14T14:14:42Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > According to the episode of Cops I watched, simply asking for a price quote is enough to get you arrested for solicitation. Ask at your own risk and hope she is not a UCC Instead of a _price_ quote, see if she is wearing a button you might buy. Ask what the price of the button is, and if there are any bonus items thrown in. It worked (sort of) at the 12th Precinct. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/49 "2019-05-14T16:36:06Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Define “hooker.” > > If you mean “streetwalker,” I’ve never seen one in a city smaller than, oh, 100k or so… I have seen plenty of them in Lorain Ohio, around 50,000 residents. They seem to have put an end to it, at least anything real obvious like it used to be. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/50 "2019-05-14T16:37:34Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat;21640222 To blend in, she’d have to wear a flannel shirt, overalls, dairy boots, and a cowboy hat…[/QUOTE] Isn’t that how the two hookers in Fargo dressed? Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/51 "2019-05-14T17:00:48Z")
I haven’t seen street walkers in years. Internet killed the streetwalker. Now they set up in a cheap motel and the clients come to them. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/52 "2019-05-14T18:28:36Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > You sure she wasn’t headed to Wal-Mart? She looked like she was waiting for somebody to pull up, and she wasn’t at a bus stop. There’s a difference between Wal-Mart trash fashion and hooker fashion. Wal-Mart fashion is usually “I don’t give a shit what I look like,” and she was definitely displaying her goods with intent for rent. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/53 "2019-05-14T18:36:33Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > 😕 So what’s the sign say, “Future home of James T. Kirk”? Pretty much so. > **[Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk, Riverside, Iowa](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2081)** > > This is the place. A photo-worthy monument marks the spot. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/54 "2019-05-14T19:23:58Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > This was the town where a group of nuns sued successfully to stop a strip club from opening next to their convent. > > [Stone Park, Illinois - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Park,_Illinois) Tough competition: soul v. body. I’ve been approached in isolated impoverished communities of a few hundred people in which addictions were rife. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/55 "2019-05-14T19:26:51Z")
Not really a small town, pop. ~18,000. But Wahiawa, HI is known for cross-dressing “ladies” of the evening. There may be a few transsexuals, but most are obviously men dressed as women. The really interesting thing is that they don’t hang out one the main streets, but in the residential neighborhood and sometimes around the bridge heading into the town. I used to run a cell phone store facing the main street (the building complex spanned a entire block with a church at the far end) and would exit out the back gate when I left at night, and would see them as I exited. They would always wave hi and I’d wave back. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/56 "2019-05-14T20:33:20Z")
My hometown had 500-600 people, depending on the day. A fellow I knew told me that our truck stop was known for prostitution. I never saw one myself, though, so perhaps it didn’t count. He may likely have been thinking about the next town over, which was about the same size but blessed with a motel. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784/57 "2019-05-15T13:10:23Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Tough competition: soul v. body. They just didn’t want the competition 🙂 “Mother, what’s a BJ?” “Twenty-five bucks – same as downtown.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smallest-town-you-have-seen-a-hooker-in/833784.md?page=2)