the Urban Institute did is really in depth us
%uh study into prostitution in america. now it's not a comprehensive study
because they didn't look at major cities like Los Angeles and New York
however they did look at eight major US cities and they found some really
interesting facts about what the
underground sex trade is really like so I want to give you guys some examples
if you look at the sex economy back in 2007 you'll see that it was extremely
lucrative
in some big cities including Atlanta where they raked in
$290 million dollars Miami came in exit 235 million and Washington DC came in
third
at $103 million now the reason why they did not
state all the other major cities that they looked at it because they just
simply did not have enough information to come up with the conclusion
however those three prove to you that there's a lot of money to be made when
it comes to Sac
hotlanta indeed she's good she's
yeah a DC is not that large so all other politicians working overtime to get them
in third place
amazing alright so I'm if you take a look at how much money
a so called him to bring in between 2005 and 2011
pimps in atlanta we're bringing in about and average up
32,000 833 dollars
a week all we know we all week
she weekly cash incomes between 2005 and 2011
in Dallas it was twelve thousand twenty-five dollars Denver 30 1200
Kansas City five thousand dollars in Miami it was seventeen thousand 741
San Diego 11120 nineteen you get the picture
they made a lot of money per week so it turns out it's not hard out there for a
bit
no we've been misled I its a
always buy this bye week here's his baby 5,000 miles a week in Kansas
no one else I had known effect I mean they're bigger more the bigger cities
leads egg crate amount of money to make it a place like this
so often times what happens with people who were in the sex trade
I is they want to get out they want to go into it because they need to pay for
tuition or their education or they need
provide for their family and then they get to a point where they feel
comfortable enough to leave and then they get a so-called respectable job
as soon as they do that they realize that they're not making
any money so the goal right back into it and I mean
you can't really blame them if you're making thirty-two thousand dollars a
week
how are you gonna find something that compete with that yet look
even if you got a great job you not gonna make anywhere near havana money
there's only it's it's very tempting now local courses huge downsides to
pimping in and especially a super garson other people
so you should note for moral reasons but if you're talking about financial
reasons is kind of a no brainer
so let's talk about the education level because there is this huge misconception
that
everyone who is in the sex industry is uneducated
darn their down-and-out the reality is that the majority of them
have some education so forty 2.5 percent have at least
a high school degree or GED 20 7.4 percent have some college they may not
have a degree but they did experience some college
by .5 percent have a college degree that orange slice right there 4.1 percent
is technical schools or trade school or something about so I mean even have a
PHD
in not by me but but
if they're they're so well yet the diet could fall under college degree but we
don't wait buddy
all kidding aside that's far more educated than I would have yes
exactly so again I like that this study happen because it does point to a lot of
misconceptions
I think the most interesting part about all this is that a lot of people get
involved in prostitution
because their family members are involved in prostitution and it's a huge
chunk
32 percent of respondents had a family member who's involved in pimping or
prostitution before that
so you know I if you think about it for a second it makes sense because a lot of
people going to what their
parents did right you see a lot of guys who are being concerned because they're
not causing structural workers are that was a lawyer
and if you're if your family member is proving your
or a prostitute of course is gonna make you more likely cuz it normalizes
definitely I mean there was one prostitute who was
quoted in this study and she said you know one day notice my at coming home
late at night
and I was wondering you know what I should do for a living white wire their
men coming in going
and she loved ran and rent older you see the clothes on your back
you see the food on the table I'm providing for all that by doing this
and it didn't realize it for her and then she entered the other industry in a
month think that's a good thing
but that's exactly what happened to her so it's it's probably something that a
lot of people in the industry experience themselves