My Human Sexuality class had an interesting set of guest speakers yesterday. We had a Vice Cop and an ex-prostitute.
The cop is actually friends with my professor so he talks at her class every semester. He often brings with him a former prostitute that for some reason helps does his talks.
The cop was a decent guy and he had some cool stories about how he and other members of his units used to arrest hookers. One story had him pick up a girl who quickly thought he was a cop. He tried to convince her he wasn't a cop so his goal was to get her to trust him. Somehow she ended up buying him some fast food and they had a conversation for about 40 minutes. When she finally trusted him she brought up sex and how much it would cost and then he busted her.
There was another story on how the guys would have "dress up" night where they can role play and try to convince hookers that they weren't cops. One cop who was Indian would put on a turban and the other clothes they wore. He'd then drive around in a Taxi and just pick up hookers and bust them.
He then showed a news segment of a lady copy poising as a hooker. Men would drive up to her and she would lean in. She'd ask what they wanted and give them a price for what they requested. Then she had the guy fallow her up to her hotel room. Once the guy got inside he was immediately arrested by two officers and had his hands bound by the zip tie cuffs. This kept happening over and over. At the end of the day there were about 30 men arrested.
The crazy thing is that all of those stories happened in my city of Long Beach. Apparently street walking is very prolific and in a area very close to where I live.
The hooker, Lisa that spoke looked very bad. Before the speakers came in, the professor who's ~42 told the class that Lisa was one year older than her. Lisa looked like she was in her 60's. She was a heroin addicted street walker. She started doing tricks to pay for her drug habit. She's been arrested about 12 times and several of those were from the cop who brought her.
There also was a little bit of talk on massage parlors and escort agencies. The focus was definitely on street walkers.
So in the end, the basic thing I learned is that; if you want to get laid, don't pick up a street walker