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An Oil Town Where Men Are Many, and Women Are Hounded
The New York Times ^ | January 15, 2013 | JOHN ELIGON

Posted on 01/16/2013 6:24:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

On a dance floor in Williston, N.D., where single men say there are not enough single women.

WILLISTON, N.D. — Christina Knapp and a friend were drinking shots at a bar in a nearby town several weeks ago when a table of about five men called them over and made an offer.

They would pay the women $3,000 to strip naked and serve them beer at their house while they watched mixed martial arts fights on television. Ms. Knapp, 22, declined, but the men kept raising the offer, reaching $7,000.

“I said I make more money doing my job than degrading myself to do that,” said Ms. Knapp, a tattoo artist with dark streaks in her light brown hair, a bird tattoo on her chest and piercings above her lip and left cheekbone.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh God the horror

Why can’t they all just be queer


41 posted on 01/16/2013 10:52:32 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: PLMerite

Sounds like rural Texas

Or so folks in Colorado ski towns always joked


42 posted on 01/16/2013 10:54:57 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: 21twelve

she wasn’t on her 50s you jackass!!

This happened in the miod 50s.


43 posted on 01/16/2013 10:58:27 PM PST by dalereed
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To: MinorityRepublican
Man you shoulda seen what a fine Playboy level slattern from Rio or Sau Paulo could make here back in my day.....50,000 horny miners.....

I saw girls pull up to Serra Pelada in a little combi and set up shop for a few days right on the road and make 10,000 US a day....lined up one after another...life is pretty dirty sometimes


44 posted on 01/16/2013 11:06:24 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Man you shoulda seen what a fine Playboy level slattern from Rio or Sau Paulo could make here back in my day.....50,000 horny miners.....

I saw girls pull up to Serra Pelada in a little combi and set up shop for a few days right on the road and make 10,000 US a day....lined up one after another...life is pretty dirty sometimes


45 posted on 01/16/2013 11:07:38 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Man you shoulda seen what a fine Playboy level slattern from Rio or Sau Paulo could make here back in my day.....50,000 horny miners.....

I saw girls pull up to Serra Pelada in a little combi and set up shop for a few days right on the road and make 10,000 US a day....lined up one after another...life is pretty dirty sometimes


46 posted on 01/16/2013 11:08:03 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: Venturer
Venturer wrote:

Today with prostitution illegal everywhere except Nevada

Prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas, nor is it legal in Reno. (Clark and Washoe counties.) Unsure about many of the other, smaller, counties, but the only places it is legal are *some* of the smaller counties. The "cow counties," as we call them.

Just setting it straight. We Las Vegans get rather tired of hearing this kinda thing, and we look upon prostition exactly as you would.

Yes, there are churches here. Real ones. No, we don't live in casinos any more than our European cousins live in their castles.

47 posted on 01/16/2013 11:33:35 PM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: Venturer
Venturer wrote:

Today with prostitution illegal everywhere except Nevada

Prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas, nor is it legal in Reno. (Clark and Washoe counties.) Unsure about many of the other, smaller, counties, but the only places it is legal are *some* of the smaller counties. The "cow counties," as we call them.

Just setting it straight. We Las Vegans get rather tired of hearing this kinda thing, and we look upon prostition exactly as you would.

Yes, there are churches here. Real ones. No, we don't live in casinos any more than our European cousins live in their castles.

48 posted on 01/16/2013 11:33:59 PM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: MinorityRepublican

About the same as in Orange County, CA, unless you’re stupid rich and into gold diggers or hos (but I repeat myself)...


49 posted on 01/16/2013 11:56:29 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Drumbo

I pity these young fools if your garden tool of an ex-wife ever learns of them...


50 posted on 01/17/2013 12:05:14 AM PST by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: ozzymandus

$7000 to look at that? North Dakota needs women!


Always has......


51 posted on 01/17/2013 12:57:40 AM PST by S.O.S121.500 (STYG Nothing so vexes me as a Democrat above ground.ENFORCE THE BILL OF RIGHTS.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
They would pay the women $3,000 to strip naked and serve them beer at their house while they watched mixed martial arts fights on television. Ms. Knapp, 22, declined, but the men kept raising the offer, reaching $7,000.

“I said I make more money doing my job than degrading myself to do that,” said Ms. Knapp, a tattoo artist with dark streaks in her light brown hair, a bird tattoo on her chest and piercings above her lip and left cheekbone.

OK. So that establishes she's above Lady Astor (absent further escalations in the offer, that is).


Lady Astor and negotiator

52 posted on 01/17/2013 1:24:43 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: sauron

LOL I can understand your concern,and you notice I did not say Las Vegas or Reno, and I understand your reference to the cow counties.

But if you think prostitution is not in Las Vegas and Reno you and I both know better.It is simply called escorts and a bit more expensive.

http://www.yellowpages.com/las-vegas-nv/escort

Yup listed in the Yellow Pages.


53 posted on 01/17/2013 5:24:55 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Smokin' Joe

ND ping

In the mining/pipeline boom days of Alaska, the women would say:

“The odds are good, but the goods are odd.”


54 posted on 01/17/2013 5:43:02 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I’m sure after publishing this story this little town will be overflowing with over-ripe New York chicks looking for love.

They won't last--It is winter here.

55 posted on 01/17/2013 5:59:34 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: X-spurt

“Dang, here I always heard that was Wyoming....”

Oddly enough, that’s where I hope to retire to. :)


56 posted on 01/17/2013 6:08:15 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: wardaddy
Sounds like rural Texas

Hard to say right now, but they could have been from there.

Local boys know that if she will, you don't want her, and they know enough young ladies from high school, they aren't likely to be offering thousands for someone to strip at a bar.

Figure Williston has doubled in size in three years or so, (the majority moving in men working in the oil patch) and chances are good the guys weren't from Williston, or even North Dakota.

57 posted on 01/17/2013 6:09:05 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: PLMerite

I wasn’t saying it was true. Wyoming is OK if you don’t mind Artic cold weather and horizontal snow storms.

Worked in Wyoming several times, it has some rugged beauty, even outside of Yellow Stone.


58 posted on 01/17/2013 6:20:32 AM PST by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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To: wardaddy
Sounds like rural Texas Or so folks in Colorado ski towns always joked

Yeah, and the bumper stickers saying, "if God meant Texans to ski, He would have given them snow."

I put a handmade bumper sticker on my car saying, "if God meant Coloradans to ski, he would have given them money."

Of course, now, Texans are a Godsend, and Californians are the new pariahs.

59 posted on 01/17/2013 6:47:49 AM PST by jammer
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To: Smokin' Joe

I guess then a little snugglin’ is in order. If’n she’s ugly flip’m over.


60 posted on 01/17/2013 6:53:04 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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