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Amen, brother! Sex work is work and sex workers should get the protections all workers deserve, not persecution and oppression!
Kidding aside, as long as everyone participated consensually and the owners weren't exploiting the workers, I don't see how there's anything wrong with it 🤷
It's the hypocrisy. The clients for these escorts were almost certainly conservative, "family-values" assholes.
Good point!
What are these numbers? This is "high-end"?
The clients, an affidavit alleges, paid the defendants as much as $600 to engage in sexual activities with women whose nude or semi-nude pictures, height, weight and other identifying features were advertised on two purported modeling websites.
As much as $600? That seems cheap!
Because I've hired a DJs for like $500 a session once and honestly, I could have just got a naked lady with a Spotify account.
The women would meet their customers at one of nine locations, where monthly rent was as high as $3,664, according to the affidavit
Uh so average city rent? We are hitting like 6k a month in some cities 😭
Yeah I said the same thing, I think that what is happening here is they have varying degrees of deniability while still getting their income. You pay a small cover that is in line with the photographer angle, they are then instructed to secure a place somewhere and take a cut, still not much cash tho surely there are other stipulations and expectations
The other thing to remember is this: our representatives are for sale and they don’t require much to betray the will of those they are supposed to represent. Just look at some of the lobbying $$ that gets passed around, it’s usually not much relatively speaking.
Doesn’t surprise me that they fuck with cheap brothels too
Lordy let there be receipts.
And if not, let one of them be spineless and flip on his partners.