Category Archives: Prostitution

Nena Cherry Is Dead

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Luke Ford

I frequently tangled with Nena in 1998 and 1999 due to my reporting that she was HIV-positive. Despite her diagnosis, she continued to do sex work and I thought it was a mitzva to report on her. I hate it … Continue reading →

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In the Windy City, prostitutes sleep with police more often than get arrested by them

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

Carolyn O’Hara writes: Another dispatch on the Freakonomics effect: University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt (Mr. Freakonomics himself) and his collaborator Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University sociologist who previously worked with Levitt to measure the average wages of street-level drug … Continue reading →

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NY Mag Is Off The Hook

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Luke Ford

From NYPost: November 7, 2007 — Lonely hearts around town won’t be able to find rent-a-dates in the back pages of New York magazine anymore. The popular weekly announced yesterday it will stop accepting sex ads in the wake of … Continue reading →

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