Website review: THE ECONOMICS OF HIGH-END PROSTITUT...
TapwaterJ discovered this in Economics
•16 reviews since Apr 10, 2008
economics, prostitution
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Boomtech rated 2 months ago- Quite the insightful article on high-end prostitution... O_O
- kmkoeva rated 2 months ago
- a thumb up for the comments, not for the article itself.
- michelle5928 rated 2 months ago
- What explains the enormous income gap between high-end prostitutes and ordinary streetwalkers or even typical working women? I decided to conduct a rather unscientific survey of potential consumers in an airport executive lounge. In conversations with several men--a professional athlete and several business executives--I asked why it was more attractive to pay a premium than to solicit a woman on 11th Avenue, say. They all responded with groans and wincing. "That is just sick and sleazy," one man said, nearly shivering with disgust. "You could end up bringing home all sorts of diseases to your wife and it could be dangerous." Everyone hastened to clarify that these answers were based on hunches, not experience. It seems purchasing sex is like buying shellfish: it should come from a reputable provider. Meeting a woman in a clean, well-kept environment signals higher quality and lowers the risk of an infection substantially. Some argue that such no-strings transactions are ultimately less harmful to both career and marriage than taking a mistress. The men at the airport lounge also pointed out that the premium buys discretion. But at these prices, it is difficult to avoid a paper trail. Spitzer spent more than $80,000 on high-end prostitutes in one year. That's a lot of bank withdrawals. On the website of the service Mr Spitzer patronised (which has since been disabled), escorts were ranked with twinkly diamond ratings; higher rankings demanded a higher price. Given that the women all looked equally beautiful and delivered similar promises, I couldn't help but wonder what gave them their value. A colleague with some experience arranging escorts for clients (when he worked at a rather nefarious-sounding private-equity firm) explained that a higher price often meant that a woman was either especially talented and versatile (ie, would provide a wider range of services), or simply more popular and experienced. I had been under the impression that this was a job in which seniority was undesirable. It depends on the woman, he said, just before emphatically denying ever using a call girl himself.
- ajanelle rated 3 months ago
- The comments are pretty interesting- whether the article itself sucks or not.
- so64 rated 3 months ago
- Well, that was an interesting article...
- sunyata rated 3 months ago
- What a pretentious article and fat ankles in the photo.
