I’m glad Craigslist dumped the Adult Services section

Posted by Aphrodite Phoenix on September 21, 2010

The Craigslist Adult Services section caused much woe to escorts. It caused many, many arrests of escorts, nationwide.

Before the Craigslist Adult Services section existed, independent escorts posted their ads on adult sites or in print media sources that never attracted the interest of minors. In other words, they posted their ads in places where kids were not likely to be looking for toys or bikes, and where soccer moms weren’t looking for washing machines or childcare.

Those sites and print sources were safer for escorts, because only adult males read them. No one was outraged by kids or soccer moms blundering into the ads while looking for things to buy, because unlike at Cragislist, that wasn’t going on, so the cops weren’t told to sting escorts.

So now things are returning to normal. The adult stuff will be separate from the kids stuff, as it should be, and far fewer escorts will be arrested (victimized) by communities out to get them because attorney generals say to.

And the men seeking escorts are finding them, wherever they’re posting now. That’s the perfect beauty of that business: the customers are needy and loyal, and will ALWAYS find the providers, no matter what, as long as the providers are posting somewhere.

Indeed, that process is flourishing right now, even as I write this.