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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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1 posted on 08/17/2014 10:07:37 AM PDT by Duke C.
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To: Duke C.

You must have no life if you have to pay for it. You are a loser. Pathetic. Sad.


2 posted on 08/17/2014 10:11:44 AM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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To: Duke C.

See, inflation really is in check. The rise in grocery prices is offset by the drop in hooker prices.


3 posted on 08/17/2014 10:13:00 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Duke C.

Basic economics: As the supply goes up, the price goes down.


4 posted on 08/17/2014 10:13:08 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Duke C.

My lawyer only charges 250 an hour.


5 posted on 08/17/2014 10:13:55 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: Cry if I Wanna
You must have no life if you have to pay for it.

Precisely. Hiring lobbyists is one thing, but I'd never fund a PAC. And as far as an actual campaign contribution? It's not worth getting in trouble.
6 posted on 08/17/2014 10:15:21 AM PDT by golux
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To: Right Brother

If they’d polled some of the women in the industrial
areas they’d have found it down around $12 or so I hear...


7 posted on 08/17/2014 10:15:43 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Right Brother

Plus the competition from overseas.Chinese hookers coming into the country will do the job faster,better and cheaper.


8 posted on 08/17/2014 10:16:21 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: Cry if I Wanna

Not to get controversial, but not every guy looks like Tom Cruise. If I got ‘no takers’ via the traditional route, I think I would consider going to a pro. I never have, and I can’t complain about my circumstances, but what is a lonely guy with little luck in the love department supposed to do?


9 posted on 08/17/2014 10:16:44 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Cry if I Wanna

Always remember, you’re not paying for sex,
you are paying for them to leave shortly after...


10 posted on 08/17/2014 10:17:10 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Duke C.

Makes sense. A bad economy and breakdown in moral ethics equals more prostitution. Also, it is a cash business.

Black markets flourish in heavily government controlled economies.


11 posted on 08/17/2014 10:17:31 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Farmer Dean

“My lawyer only charges $250.”

Still LOL. A delightful blindsider. :-)


12 posted on 08/17/2014 10:18:15 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Farmer Dean

How do you know?


13 posted on 08/17/2014 10:19:14 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: tet68
Always remember, you’re not paying for sex, you are paying for them to leave shortly after...

Or as Charlie Sheen once said about hookers...

You're not paying them to stay, your paying for them to leave.

14 posted on 08/17/2014 10:19:47 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Fungi

Are you trying to insinuate that I would use a prostitute?


15 posted on 08/17/2014 10:24:19 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.

Inflation or deflation?


16 posted on 08/17/2014 10:26:25 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Farmer Dean

No. Just asking how you came across the info. What you do in your private life is no ones business.


17 posted on 08/17/2014 10:29:33 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: fhayek

Seinfeld (The Wink) How ugly people date

http://www.tvclip.biz/video/kS_jdcV5QsM/seinfeld-the-wink-how-ugly-people-date.html


18 posted on 08/17/2014 10:31:51 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: tet68

I’ve heard celebrities often pay them to also shut up about it.


19 posted on 08/17/2014 10:32:23 AM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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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."

You've obviously never been to a 'massage' parlor or accupressure salon. LOL

20 posted on 08/17/2014 10:35:57 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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