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The Economist explains: Why the price of commercial sex is falling
The Economist ^ | Aug. 11,2014 | J.D.

Posted on 08/17/2014 10:07:37 AM PDT by Duke C.

THE ECONOMIST has analysed 190,000 profiles of female sex workers on websites where customers post reviews. The data cover 84 cities in 12 countries, with the biggest number of workers in America and most of the rest in big cities in rich countries. According to our analysis, the price of an hour of sex with a female prostitute has been dropping fairly steadily in recent years. In 2006 the average cost was around $340. By 2014 it had dropped to about $260.

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To: reg45

Heh—demand is going down.


21 posted on 08/17/2014 10:42:31 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle; Morgana

wait... hang on...

this article is saying that the price of a prostitute is dropping because so many have become sluts that do it for free?


22 posted on 08/17/2014 10:43:47 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

Thirty or forty, heck even 20 years ago, I could understand. Now days, hell, it must be like shooting fish in a barrel if you are not too selective. You can be broke, drug addled, no prospects, violent, etc. and the women will gladly give it away with in the first two hours of meeting.


23 posted on 08/17/2014 10:45:03 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: GeronL

I think the men are getting older, was what -I- was saying.


24 posted on 08/17/2014 10:49:02 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Cry if I Wanna
You must have no life if you have to pay for it. You are a loser. Pathetic. Sad.

Talk to any escort and they'll tell you many of their "clients" are successful, decent-looking, married professionals who use their services for various reasons --but mostly for the discretion an escort provides.

Some dudes just want sex outside of marriage --and they don't want some crazy "fatal attraction" chick they cheated on their spouse with to come around making a bunch of noise.

It's a myth that the only people who use hookers are a bunch of lonely, ugly introverts.

25 posted on 08/17/2014 10:53:47 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Rusty0604

Eww — there were porn sidebars all over that site.


26 posted on 08/17/2014 10:54:29 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("LEX REX." ("The law is the king.") -- Samuel Rutherford)
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To: Albion Wilde
Eww — there were porn sidebars all over that site.

Sure were. I wonder if they're always there or if they showed up because we clicked on that link from a thread talking about sex and prostitution?

Interwebs work funny sometimes.

27 posted on 08/17/2014 11:03:08 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Albion Wilde

Sorry, I didn’t notice that. I just remember that Seinfeld skit.


28 posted on 08/17/2014 11:03:38 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Lol! So very true.


29 posted on 08/17/2014 11:14:51 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: reg45

In DC, however, the supply has remained constant over the years: 535 career hookers, yet the price continues to skyrocket.


30 posted on 08/17/2014 11:17:26 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: DPMD
In DC, however, the supply has remained constant over the years: 535 career hookers, yet the price continues to skyrocket.

Better service now. You're getting @($*(@#*$ more than ever by them.

31 posted on 08/17/2014 11:22:57 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

If a man is having sex with a female, he is paying for it...


32 posted on 08/17/2014 11:22:59 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Farmer Dean

That is not too far off the mark. Where I live, Asian “massage” parlors spring up like weeds. Some are open just a few weeks, others much longer. It’s like a wack-a-mole. Most of these women are illegals who overstay their tourist visa.


33 posted on 08/17/2014 11:33:10 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Farmer Dean

But I hear that with Chinese hookers, half an hour later you’re horny again. :=)


34 posted on 08/17/2014 11:41:43 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Bob

But with two you get free egg roll.


35 posted on 08/17/2014 11:45:40 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Duke C.

I wonder if this story will be picked up by the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes or Bloomberg and the like. The folks at the Economist must have too much time on their hands to be tracking this nonsense.


36 posted on 08/17/2014 11:53:19 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: Farmer Dean
I know you think you're kidding, but you're not.
37 posted on 08/17/2014 11:53:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Bob
But I hear that with Chinese hookers, half an hour later you’re horny again.

Hell, half an hour after any woman I'm horny again!

38 posted on 08/17/2014 11:55:56 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: Farmer Dean

” will do the job faster.............”

But my wife keeps telling me that’s my problem.


39 posted on 08/17/2014 11:56:01 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wasn’t kidding,just look at all the “massage parlors” everywhere.


40 posted on 08/17/2014 11:56:11 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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