Too many whores in NYC...

No way!! There aren't enough!!

The feds shut down one call girl ring, another one pops up immediately nearby. The only reason this happens is to supply a need. Conservative Republicans feel that sex should only be within the confines of marriage (Huh, you mean there's single people ?), and libs are fixated on property values-and when they hear about a ring being shut down, they question whether trafficking is involved.

In both cases, both sides are woefully uninformed about the subject because they're too busy protecting their sacred cows. If both sides only realized that if the sex industry was regulated and taxed, many of society's ills would go away. The business would fund it's own medical needs, pleasing both sides, and the tax collected would drop property tax rates by 80%, pleasing conservatives-but also making them cringe because at some point kids would have to be told that schools are funded through the actions of sex workers.

To Dudester's point, I wonder how good the sex industry could be for all involved if decriminalized - for customers, government, law enforcement, and society alike. It'd be a lot like Canada or Germany, I suppose.

In any case, NYC does have a lot of AMPs, but they're quite discrete - no gaudy signs, etc. Instead, the signs are usually engraved brass plaques on the sides of buildings and you really gotta know what you're looking for. Even then, they're very easy to pass right on by. Once there, you have to be buzzed in and usually walk up a flight or two of stairs. So, the whole deal strikes about as much of a balance as possible - providing some relief for guys like me, but it's not 'in your face,' thus sparing the hypocritical conservatives who probably still use them, or other clandestine services.