5 things you didn’t know about prostitution:

• Sex workers interviewed for a study reported enjoying sex with their clients. On the other hand, being a prostitute makes a woman 100x more likely to be murdered.

• The Democratic National Convention or Republican National Convention coming to a city causes a 29-77% increase in the number of local internet classified ads offering sex for sale.

• 41% of surveyed online sex workers are college graduates.

• The “best” prostitutes actually make less money than average ones. Street prostitutes earn $25-30 an hour. Prostitutes with pimps do better than average.

• “A prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get officially arrested by one.”

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