No, just with social media marketing. But the two areas are easy to confuse.
Only one of them provides services for cash in an honest exchange.
In both cases the essence is the exchange of money in return for feigned affection.
Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
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Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#32ok, in which countries do sex workers identify themselves with their name and actual profession and it is completely ok? likewho would even create a profile like this? don't other families don't trash her as a bad mother, doesn't it affect their employment prospects, are their kids or parents not harassed etc? if there is a country like that i want to live there.
Germany also has legal prostitution. And I think Belgium as well.
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#33so the real reason why prostitutes use linked in isn't to FIND new clients or to create networks of whores on linked in -- it's to verify that their clients aren't cops. in a lot of places, prostitution is illegal, and clients and "service providers" alike are worried about the repercussions of getting caught. some are regular people who are trying to make money, or like their side alter ego, but don't particularly w…
> whores Can we at least call them prostitues if sex worker is too PC for HN?
Funny, I didn't notice the negative connotation here. But maybe that's because of sentences I heard lately:
"Hey, what's the problem with being a fucking whore?" (Street whore¹ in Dexter –forgot which episode.)
"I have a lot of respect for whores." (witness in a radio documentary —quite moving, by the way.)
[1] I swear I mean no disrespect.
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#34The problem seems to me that sex work is stigmatized and, as a direct result of that, still not legalized and regulated in too many 1st world countries.
The 1st world global cultural gap (between e.g. the US and Europe, or even northern and souther Europe) may seem small when you stroll through your average mall to shop for apparel.
But it is often huge when it comes to views about morale and what is considered ok or not ok.
To someone from northern Europe who is living in a country where sex work is 'ok' in most people's view, legalized anyway and regulated in recent years, this LinkedIn stuff is one of these stories that sound like they're from another, previous century.
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#35ok, in which countries do sex workers identify themselves with their name and actual profession and it is completely ok? likewho would even create a profile like this? don't other families don't trash her as a bad mother, doesn't it affect their employment prospects, are their kids or parents not harassed etc? if there is a country like that i want to live there.
Nevada.
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
"a busy linked in profile, business cards, and a drivers license that all point to the same person is a pretty good sign that that person ACTUALLY has the job they claim and they're not a cop." It would seem almost trivial to create a believable linkedin profile that could fool anybody. I get linkedin requests all the time from people who I don't know who are trolling to build up a profile. And "business cards"?
i don't think anyone is under the delusion that it is foolproof. Obviously, cops can fake all that stuff. But if you're just an average sex worker, the law probably doesn't have it out specifically for you, and it's a lot lower hanging fruit to just go for the careless sex workers who don't even verify. The amount of time/effort they would have to spend (while not necessarily a lot) wouldn't be justified by the proba…
Wait a minute: does the lack of quotes after "source:" mean you are speaking from personal experience? (Genuine question. At first, I though you were citing the title of some book.)
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#37so the real reason why prostitutes use linked in isn't to FIND new clients or to create networks of whores on linked in -- it's to verify that their clients aren't cops. in a lot of places, prostitution is illegal, and clients and "service providers" alike are worried about the repercussions of getting caught. some are regular people who are trying to make money, or like their side alter ego, but don't particularly w…
> whores Can we at least call them prostitues if sex worker is too PC for HN?
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Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
best job ever. just kidding. obviously, no law enforcement officer has ever engaged in sexual activity with a sex worker. that 's just historical fact. No actual sex has to happen for a crime to be committed. Solicitation is a crime. just agreeing to submit or receive payment in exchange for sexual activity is the crime. So law enforcement officers can set up situations where they get sex workers to agree to do thing…
Sarcasm is difficult to convey over text.
Especially since a quick Google will confirm that police officers often end up taking an unexpected retirement after complaints that they didn't pay for their sex.
For example, http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/03/29/boston-detective-arre...
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#39so the real reason why prostitutes use linked in isn't to FIND new clients or to create networks of whores on linked in -- it's to verify that their clients aren't cops. in a lot of places, prostitution is illegal, and clients and "service providers" alike are worried about the repercussions of getting caught. some are regular people who are trying to make money, or like their side alter ego, but don't particularly w…
> whores Can we at least call them prostitues if sex worker is too PC for HN?
thou shalt call things as they are, everything else is political correctness bingo
-- gandhi
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
i don't think anyone is under the delusion that it is foolproof. Obviously, cops can fake all that stuff. But if you're just an average sex worker, the law probably doesn't have it out specifically for you, and it's a lot lower hanging fruit to just go for the careless sex workers who don't even verify. The amount of time/effort they would have to spend (while not necessarily a lot) wouldn't be justified by the proba…
Wait a minute: does the lack of quotes after "source:" mean you are speaking from personal experience? (Genuine question. At first, I though you were citing the title of some book.)
I guess a clue is that male prostitute generally have male client, not female.