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Seattle Prostitution Has ‘Exploded’ Because Of The Internet
Businessinsider
Seattle bucked a national trend of declining illicit sex revenue with local spending rising from $50 million in 2003 to $112 million in 2007, according to a report from the Urban Institute.
At the same time, the city has seen a big shift in prostitution solicitation from the street to the Internet — both in response to a police crackdown and as part of a shift that is happening around the country.
In the words of on Seattle law enforcement official interviewed in the report:
“I think that because of the Internet, it’s just really exploded. And because it is just hitting now, I mean my wife would never go to Backpage or anything like that, so to her, she would have never known that this went on had she not been married to me, unless you are the hobbyist or the exploiter or the young girl involved in it. And then when people hear about Backpage or Craigslist, people are shocked. I’m like, ‘Really you’re shocked?!’ I mean, you can buy anything on the Internet!”
