Sex in the city...

[Al B. Sure!]

always on cops and what not there's always dozens of prostitution busts and what not and on tv, the inner city is portrayed as having dozens of prostitutes on the street.

but honestly, living for as many years as i have in philly, i have rarely seen prostitutes. I mean we got plenty of morally loose women and some who even have sex with men for material things but outright prostitutes seem a rarity.

so is it just some kind of white trash thing out in Gary, Vegas, or detriot? or am i just glazing over the prostitutes here in philly?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Yes

[DanS]

Don't know about Philly, but DC is crawling with streetwalking prostitutes. And no, this isn't an advertisement.

[Thorn]

There are plenty of gay prositutes here, more so then others ... the again we are a gay hub....

[GePap]

Depends how visible they make themselves. Maybe in Philly you have to go to certain spots to get th right info about where to go.

[Al B. Sure!]

GePap:

i'm thinking there's a fairly strong police prescence that prevents them from being out on the street real visible. i mean on Cops and what not, they're always right there looking very much like prostitutes trying to get johns but i dont see none of that in philly... probably it's underground

[Pekka]

Albert Speer, but then again, didn't you say some time ago that all women who can be considered as loose women are prostitutes?

[Jac de Molay]

They're not too widespread in Detroit. They cluster in neighborhoods here and there but avoid downtown.

We have "john's" tv, which puts everyone who's busted on cable Tv. Well see how much of a deterrent that is

[Al B. Sure!]

Pekka:

no i said loose women are whores when lazarus started nit-picking about my usage of whore in a song of mine


oh yeah there's also ads in the newspaper and what not that seem to hint at prostitution services guised as escort or massage companies

[Cruddy]

Being somewhat acquianted with the industry, I think it's fair to say you generally only see streetwalkers at certain times of the day or night.

They're not stupid. They earn off passing traffic. No traffic, no work = streetwalkers.

That's not to say you won't find them at the quieter times in bars, hotels, cinemas, restaurants, in fact anywhere people go.

I can understand you being pi55ed off about the portrayal of your home town as somewhat more in your face than it really is - but hey, that's the media. Give them a cockroach and they'll stick a zoom mike on it to make it look like a bad sci fi movie.

Just because you can't see them working lasses (and lads) doesn't mean they aren't there. They just don't always wear "work clothes" or a big flashing neon sign that says "pu55y for hire".

[Spiffor]

I live right next one of the two woods of Paris, the usual hangout of the whore industry. So of course I'd tend to say Paris is filled with whores, but this is an extremely limited point of view. In the city centre, there are nearly no streetwalking whore except at a few spots...

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Cruddy
Being somewhat acquianted with the industry,

Oh? Tell us more

[Pekka]

Albert Speers, ok, I didn't have a clear recollection.

[Boris Godunov]

I don't know about your city, but in my city, the vast majority of prostitutes are African-American women who cater to African-American men. They're commonly known as crack whores, and they abound in the city's worst areas. You don't see these things in the areas most people see, because most people avoid the areas where these things occur.

The squalor such women live in is unbelievable, and I can't image their daily lives. They prostitute themselves out for drugs more often than money, or the money to buy drugs. The way the live is little different than that of the prostitutes in the East End of London in Victorian times who went with a customer for as little as a crust of bread.

[Drake Tungsten]

The way the live is little different than that of the prostitutes in the East End of London in Victorian times who went with a customer for as little as a crust of bread.

Ahhhh, the good old days.