Sex Work

Backpage Hoe

Backpage.com was a classified advertising website founded in 2004. When Craigslist closed its "Adult Services" section in 2010 much of Craigslist's share of the adult ad market migrated to other sites, with Backpage being the main beneficiary. - paraphrased from Wikipedia.

Backpage has been facing legal troubles. Windypundit explains:

Backpage and The Iron Law of Prohibition by Mark Draughn

The term 'sex work' doesn't make much sense to me, I mean it doesn't seem like work. But different people have differing libidos, and differing attachments to their pocket book. Never had any girls offering to pay me for sex, so I suppose I haven't really been tested.

There is the moral angle, but given the prevalence of real evil going on in the world, prostitution seems like small potatoes. Most people. like 98%, don't engage in paid sex. The biggest effect is the titillation of movie audiences.