04 November 2013

Paying for it

Daniel Politi has a Slate article about hookers in Vegas:
The number of men willing to pay a professional for sex appears to be on the decline. At least that’s what a national representative survey seems to suggest, reports The Los Angeles Times. Some are skeptical, but the numbers are startling when compared to a few decades ago and the ease of finding sex for free online may be playing a role.
In the first half of the 1990s, the General Social Survey, a project of the research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, found that around seventeen percent of men said they had paid or received money for sex. That number dropped to thirteen percent between 2006 and 2012, when it hit a record low of nine percent since the survey first began questioning nearly eleven thousand men about the issue in 1991.
Experts have said there are several factors that could explain the decrease: websites and smartphone apps designed to help people hook up, and a decrease in the number of men who serve in the military, among others. But others say the numbers are misleading and men haven’t actually stopped paying for sex— after all, the Internet has also made it easier to hook up prostitutes with clients— they’re just more scared to admit it, as the practice has become less socially acceptable over the years.
Rico says what happens in Vegas can, if you're not careful, come home with you. (But if Rico wanted to wait twenty minutes for sex, he'd do it himself...)

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