Sunday, February 26, 2006

Craigslist or Craigslust? Hookers prowl family Web site

Boston Globe reports:
Scores of Boston-area hookers are using a major Internet site popular with soccer moms, apartment seekers and job hunters to post hundreds of daily pornographic ads for unbridled sex romps that can be set up within minutes.
A two-week Herald investigation of free “erotic services” ads on the craigslist.org Web site uncovered prostitutes shacked up in hotels, operating from Spartan apartments rented by pimps or willing to meet for “car dates” in parking lots. Fees ranged from $50 to $250.

“Craigslist has made it much easier for women to engage in this sort of business,” said Boston police Detective Sgt. Jimmy Fong, who monitors the site, one of the 35 busiest Web addresses on the planet. “The (working girls) now have the power to select who they want using modern technology.”
Capitalism among consenting adults.