Anyone who has an email account knows that prostitutes use spam to advertise, but all the hoopla about that guy in New York reveals that the “oldest profession updates to a wired world.“
The prostitution scandal involving New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer lays bare some of the inner workings of modern-day sex work: text messaging to clock in the client, electronic fund transfers, a website featuring color photos, prices and rankings…
Not only can prostitutes and escort services now run more efficient businesses, but they can leverage word-of-mouth advertising in new ways to build their brands and troll for clients. Online social communities built around the escort and sex worker industries can solidify customer loyalty.
The article is reasonably interesting throughout, but it never tries to answer the big question that occurred to me: Does all this technology attract more clients or is there a pretty fixed percentage of the population that will find the sex trade with or without technology?
I’d guess that a fair number of people who would never dream of finding prostitutes by cruising the streets or asking taxi drivers feel perfectly comfortable doing business through the Web.
I’ve never seen any data that supports this theory, but I’d guess that someone may choose to study the issue soon.
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