Just as an FYI, government pressure forced Backpage to shut down the "Adult" pages. Check the news feeds for the Senate Report on "trafficking." The escorts and body rub girls just moved to the backpage.com "dating" section in "women > men," and the "services" section at "massages." The same adds, same pictures, same offers. I am sure Claire McCaskill and the snowflakes in California are celebrating their "victory," but I doubt much has really changed.
I saw a report on this, checked out a few stories, then went to the backpage.com site to check it (in several different cities) for my self.
Better to find your girls in strip clubs. F2f first meetings always safer. But even more, you get to build some rapport with your girl, and that will make OTC intimacies go better.
I heard the gov is now going after smartphone manufacturers b/c smartphones make it possible to place ads and w/o them most ads would not get placed and thus no "human-trafficking" (sarcasm intended)
ABC's "Nightline" aired an updated episode Friday morning, (12:35 a.m.) that it showed about six months ago on Backpage. The emphasis was on the human trafficking element. In the updated version, it specifically mentioned that Backpage VOLUNTEERED to remove its adult entertainment ads. It wasn't forced to by federal authorities. But BP put up a banner explaning it was being censored by the federal government.
Then I checked the dating section of Backpage, as was mentioned above, and VOILA! Lots of what appear to be the usual "sex-for-sale ads" are present. I sense that Backpage MOVED them there, not that all those providers were smart enough to think of that themselves. And there are lots of those "dating" ads that go much further back than January 10th, when the Backpage adult section was "shut down."
Based on some of what I've read, the backpage editors have actually been editing ads to make them look less like trafficking. If that's true, they screwed themselves over. Publishers have long enjoyed protection from liability for most ad content, but if they were editing the ads themselves, rather than just rejecting them and letting the advertiser change it, they brought it on themselves.
And their claim of government censorship to baloney.
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I saw a report on this, checked out a few stories, then went to the backpage.com site to check it (in several different cities) for my self.
His fake news ads were just too much for Leo to put up with in North Carolina.
SJG
Then I checked the dating section of Backpage, as was mentioned above, and VOILA! Lots of what appear to be the usual "sex-for-sale ads" are present. I sense that Backpage MOVED them there, not that all those providers were smart enough to think of that themselves. And there are lots of those "dating" ads that go much further back than January 10th, when the Backpage adult section was "shut down."
Damn near ever time I visit a new club or a club I haven't been to in a while some one eventually ask me if I'm a cop lol
I always replying with well I do like donuts lol
And their claim of government censorship to baloney.