Hard times hit sex workers, i.e. when even sex doesn't sell
Posted at 12:36 PM Nov 05, 2008
By Bonnie Ruberg
According to the L.A. Times, yet another wholesome business has fallen on hard times due to the current economic crisis: legal prostitution in Nevada. The article focuses on one such institution, Donna's Ranch, where the clientele of truckers is getting thin as gas prices burn holes in would-be customers' pockets. Sex workers are forced to attempt to seduce passers-by with purring pick-up lines at the Ranch's near empty bar and over short-wave radio. The owner of the brothel is even considering sticking some cows in a nearby field as a low-cost way of feeding his workers.
If this is how things are going for legal prostitution, it makes a doll wonder how the economy has effected the standard, illegal kind. Recent reports have claimed that the recession has actually been good for women's sex lives, since men want comforting as they lose their fortunes (plus it's cheaper for coupes to jump each other than go out on an actual date). But what about the kind of sex you have to pay for? Are people shelling out for that, or holding onto their cash?
