"They Pay You To Listen"

In response to Craigslist's censorship of sex ads, sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh takes aim at five myths surrounding prostitution:

I've been studying high-end sex workers (by which I mean those whoearn more than $250 per "session") in New York, Chicago and Paris formore than a decade, and one of my most startling findings is that manymen pay women to not have sex. Well, they pay for sex, but end upchatting or having dinner and never get around to physical contact.Approximately 40 percent of...