Forum - Academics Study Prostitution

A story about a recent "scholarly" conference on the economics of prostitution offers some food for thought. Here are three interesting quotes from the story:

"Prostitutes are more likely to have sex with a police officer than to be arrested by one."

"Sex workers can expect to be violently assaulted once a month."

"Illegality and lack of regulation are likely to heighten public-health risks."

Full article here:

http://www.economist.com/finance/economicsfocus/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10533877

Demonstrating once again that laws don't always have the intended consequences.

It seems they have quite perverted idea of police officers!
But that sentence about public-health risks is true.

You know Kotikk, different countries have different police officers and different standards of relations between officers and prostitutes.
But an Escort girl and a prostitute are not the same, are they... I saw it was said here many times in many topics.

Oh, I know it well...)) But I mean American policemen, of course. As I know having intercourses with ho's is often too risky for them, isn't it?