It has got to be a hard way to make a living being a $15 hooker -- especially after the pimp takes his cut. What's left? 5 bucks?
Originally Posted by Taskmaster
Very basic article that is guessing. Two main points I get:
“They were scraping to find data that was reliable in just these communities,” said Amy Farrell of Northeastern University, who applauded the study’s findings. “And they found a lot of variation across communities.”
And:
Most sex transactions were once negotiated on the streets, the study found, but most are now arranged online, where rates are significantly higher.
Somewhere in economics class we learned that illegal drug sales and gambling plus prostitution nets more revenue in the US than all the oil companies combined.