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How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest (qz.com)
HughPickens.com writes: Mid-range prostitution is a relatively new market, enabled by technology. Before the internet, it was hard for escorts to find customers: They had to either walk the streets searching for customers, rely on word-of-mouth, or work with agencies. The internet changed all that as Allison Schrager writes at Quartz that if you work at Goldman Sachs in NYC and you want to tie up a woman and then have sex with her, you'll first have to talk to Rita. Rita will "insist on calling your office, speaking to the switchboard operator, and being patched through to your desk. Then she will want to check out your profile on the company website and LinkedIn. She'll demand you send her message from your work email, and require a scan of either your passport or driver's license." Though some escorts rely on sex work-specific sites that maintain "bad date" lists of potentially dangerous clients, others make use of more mainstream sources to gather information about and verify the identities of potential johns. Rita is addressing a problem that every business, both legal and illegal, has. Before the internet, more commerce occurred locally -- customers knew their merchants or service providers and went back to them repeatedly. As technology has expanded our transactional networks, it must also offer new ways of building trust and reputation. "The lesson here is that, while you'd think all the technological options for finding customers would make Rita's job as a madam obsolete, it has actually made her services more critical," says Schrager. "One step ahead of the mainstream economy, Rita's thriving business shows that some jobs won't disappear. They just need to be recast in a way that capitalizes on what made them valuable in the first place."
sex workers deserve to be urinated on
Call a "switchboard operator"? "patched through" to your desk? What is this, 1946? The mid/highclass hookers aren't asking their customers for identification. Who writes this garbage?
Enough with sexual exploitation of men. These cunts hardly worth the money they are asking.
If you want to know who exploit who, look at the direction money take. Stop being a feminist apologist.
and covered in delicious hot grits.
when will git get some self respect and lose that vulnerability that messes with gcc?
A girlfriend / wife doing this would be creepy. No way some prostitute is. Scanning a passport? Bullshit.
There are porn sites that require ID absolutely to model and unless you want to pay through the roof in fees, they want your bank information for tokens. That information isn't given to members nor does anyone call your employer. And you can still use a credit card / wire transfer. Then again if you're dumb enough to share that... well..
Whatever you're on Beau, lower the dosage :)
can afford a top-of-the-line Dubai porta potty without an invasive background check.
We have the highest number of 18-24 year olds in America with no job and a HS education or below. 60% are woman. With the insane college debt crisis we should be finding ways to educate and train woman for the workforce not promote prostitution. Proposition is a man's dream. The reality is increased prostitution is a bad sign for a society. Oakland is the human trafficking capital of America. In San Fran the politicians bicker over soda tax while the cops smoke cigarettes on the corner. Let's not promote abuse towards woman on tech sites.
Count me in. Selling sex makes good money, but I bet you could make even more with blackmail!
...by logged-in users.
The redbook website was THE place for this activity. That plus its associate, pinkbook. Unfortunately it got shutdown by the FBI for various crimes as it made a profit.
Has there been anything since redbook to fill in that void?
I didn't get past the summary which for me is rare. It's like some weird Penthouse Forum story, written by a person who is completely oblivious to reality and no experience or knowledge of prostitution. I mean, they could have paid a real prostitute money to interview them, but instead they just made shit up. Really stupid shit at that.
Usually there is a purpose for this kind of trash, but in this case I'm really stumped. Maybe they think they will normalize people giving hookers info by making elaborately false claims?
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Is this the best you can find to post on slashdot, the technology site?
Hughpickens writes
"and you want to tie up a woman and then have sex with her, you'll first have to talk to Rita."
The article actually reads:
"you want to be tied up by a woman and then have sex with her"
I don't know but I think we're talking about different specialists here aren't we?
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Rita's job is not obsolete but what she does can fairly easily be replicated with a script.
You can't handle the truth.
Episode 4.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
Rita's job is not obsolete but what she does can fairly easily be replicated with a script.
Actually, it is surprising that everyone has missed the fact that, unless "Rita" works in Nevada, she is breaking the law, no matter how she is vetting her clients or how she does her business.. Ill put it another way..
Selling pussy is only legal in Nevada if you are in the US.
I didn't go through that level of background checks when I got married ...
Actually, it is surprising that everyone has missed the fact that, unless "Rita" works in Nevada, she is breaking the law, no matter how she is vetting her clients or how she does her business.
She's not selling pussy, she's selling 'quality time together.' And she's not selling it, she's probably getting paid a flat rate to be a go-between.
The /. summary says "... if you work at Goldman Sachs in NYC and you want to tie up a woman and then have sex with her ..."
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The linked article says "... If you work at Goldman Sachs in a major US city and you want to be tied up by a woman and then have sex with her
That's a substantial difference. Who changed what, and when? Is that poor
...you don't work at Goldman Sachs?
Following the Jewish agenda. How sickening. How low does a woman have to sink, before she decides that becoming a prostitute is even an option? And yet you encourage this sickness? What sort of scumbag visits a prostitute, and uses a woman's body, because he can't get a real woman to actually want to spend time with him?
Laws do not really matter anymore, do they?
Everyone speeds after all, and no-one cares about that.
So it is with sex services, people all over the world are breaking whatever sexual regulation may be present, and few people really care.
That is the point of having so many laws, so that people stop caring, start breaking, thus there is always something the state can hold over anyone - unless you are rich or well-connected, so the upper class does not have to suffer the effects of laws that crush the general populace.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Other people have debunked your numbers but something not debunked is the notion that all sex service are trafficking. Women being trafficked are actually a rainy minority of those selling sexual services (which ranges form escort to stripper to everything in between).
Being able to use your body as you see fit, including making money, is not a "man's dream" - it is the dream of humanity. If an athlete or model can make money from their body why not a sex worker (and remember we are not just talking women here, but men/women/other)? Just because YOU don't like it? Why should your views be forced on all the women of the world? In the end you are simply a misogynist pretending to care.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Now they are eyeball deep in the looting scandal that stole over $2.5 billion dollars out of the Malaysian economy.
So no matter how much fun it is for Wall Street types to tie up hookers, or be tied up by them, nothing comes close to egomaniac thrill of wrecking entire economies for profit. That's why they keep doing it over and over again.
BTW, one of the truly ironic features of this case is that some of the stolen money was used to fund the film The Wolf of Wall Street. You can't make this kind of shit up.
Why is Snark Required?
Has there been anything since redbook to fill in that void?
Fetlife.
It's 2016 already, where's my sex robot??
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They're rehiring Alison Rapp
"One step ahead of the mainstream economy, Rita's thriving business shows that some jobs won't disappear. They just need to be recast in a way that capitalizes on what made them valuable in the first place."
This is imple, simple logic, and that most can't make that logical leap tells me the majority of purported 'experts' at this point in time are either too young to know better, incredibly naive or ignorant, or all of the above. This applies to bot technology, too. It's ludicrous to think that *every* job can be automated, and time WILL bear this truth out. I really don't think a lot of engineers and VCs are half as intelligent as they think they are.
if you don't want your dick to rot off or get mugged, you pay for a better class of escorts. It's not that complex. Both sides benefit from background checks. Of course, a bunch of basement dwellers don't realize that some people have standards.
References? Drivers Licenses?
That's nothing. Prostitutes have been taking DNA samples from their clients for centuries.
I've always wondered why technical support is perfectly legal while prostitution isn't.
The common rhetoric being published by media and politicians is that we live in a patriarchy and just rape people when we get horny. Are you attempting to claim that the rhetoric is fake?
Not for long, you couldn't.
...Rita is a pimp, right? I thought it was illegal.
Their women became prostitutes in droves. Honesty costed extra.
How's your debt in USA ladies?
So people send e-mails from their work address to sex workers? Bullshit.