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Posted: 7/12/2014 3:33:55 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, sex workers have been the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that no one talks about.

But with money flowing from the technology industry, the sex trade is booming.

"I continue to see an increase in the amount of technology clients I see here in the Bay Area," said Siouxsie Q, a 28-year-old sex worker.

Silicon Valley is better known for its search engines and smartphones than it is for sex.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/10/silicon-valley-prostitution/12488225/
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 3:35:24 AM EDT
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Let see a bunch of geeks that the prom queen turned her nose up on and now lots of money to buy a girl to do what he wants.  Who would have thunk it!!
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 3:35:55 AM EDT
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But the sex industry has been closely linked to boom times in the Bay
Area going back to the Gold Rush, when men with pickaxes ventured here
hoping to hit the mother lode.
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Boom times ... lode... silicon valley... so much innuendo



Anyway, legalize it.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 3:36:07 AM EDT
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So it would be safe to say the sex worker trade is "banging" in Silicon Valley right?
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 3:57:25 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:05:50 AM EDT
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Can't say it surprised. Geeks want it, and aren't scared to pay for it.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:08:51 AM EDT
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Marriage contract vs sex contract. Postpaid vs prepaid.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:32:34 AM EDT
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1. Huge male to female ratio.

2. What females are there are your typical STEM grad females.  "We have tons of girls in engineering, but not very many."

3. The males have lots of money.





       
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Anyway, legalize it.
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Agreed.



 
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:33:13 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:43:11 AM EDT
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All those programmers have to get laid somehow...right?
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:46:47 AM EDT
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Laying the men doing the programming American's wont do?
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:46:57 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/12/2014 4:51:50 AM EDT
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Eventually the West Coast social justice left and the Elton Musk "Another day in Libertarian paradise" crowd will clash openly.
 
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 5:17:02 AM EDT
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Siouxsie Q is  
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 5:19:48 AM EDT
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I wonder what the average hourly rate is?
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 5:32:21 AM EDT
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More than you or I could afford would be my guess.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 5:38:06 AM EDT
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Since when is a whore a "sex worker"?

It's interesting how the media forms and selects these terms of art for the groups they favor and the groups they look down upon.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 5:44:52 AM EDT
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How dare you!  They are a disenfranchised minority that wouldn't have to do that kind of work if it wasn't for the oppression of the white male!!

You might hurt their feelings!










That is if whores had feelings.  Souless creatures for sure.  
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 5:53:21 AM EDT
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They prefer to be called "Undocumented Sex Therapists"
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 5:58:04 AM EDT
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We've seen prostitution spike in areas of the country where there have been large economic booms where the majority of people involved were men in the past in this nation. Look at the gold rush and the boom towns where the large percentage were men. I wouldn't be shocked to find that the large oil boom where guys are making over $100K and even Walmart workers are making four times normal pay has created a rise in prostitution. It's all about supply and demand folks.

I don't see any issue with Prostitution. It is just religious bullshit that it's against the law.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 6:04:29 AM EDT
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I'm not surprised.

In the Silicon Valley, San Jose/Santa Clara area, the single male/female ratio is 8 single women for every 10 single men.  So it comes as no surprise whatsoever that whores would fill the gap.

-Gator
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 6:16:06 AM EDT
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If the CA .gov was smart, they would legalize, put controls down and profit.

Link Posted: 7/12/2014 6:25:10 AM EDT
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We've seen prostitution spike in areas of the country where there have been large economic booms where the majority of people involved were men in the past in this nation. Look at the gold rush and the boom towns where the large percentage were men. I wouldn't be shocked to find that the large oil boom where guys are making over $100K and even Walmart workers are making four times normal pay has created a rise in prostitution. It's all about supply and demand folks.

I don't see any issue with Prostitution. It is just religious bullshit that it's against the law.
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It would be legal if the .gov could figure out how to tax it.  Think about it.  Single mom realizes that she will not have her rent money this month.  So she fixes herself up one weekend and picks up a couple of clients.  She has her rent money and the .gov doesn't know anything about it.  So no tax revenue.


Vulcan94
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 6:38:55 AM EDT
[#24]
Just don't let them shoot you up with smack.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 8:31:09 AM EDT
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Law breaking is serious business and should never be tolerated



 
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 8:39:49 AM EDT
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Whores have track marks.

Sex workers have websites and charge $500/hr., or till you "pop," whichever comes first.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 8:41:36 AM EDT
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Exactly!

Link Posted: 7/12/2014 8:48:17 AM EDT
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Guys that lack social skills and looks to get pussy using another tactic, what do you expect?



I live in a summer resort community that is filled with super rich. A few of my past female employees told me how they would get approached by nerdy wealthy guys who would ask them to go on shopping dates where the dude would pick up the tab. The implication was the girls would reciprocate with sex.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 8:50:26 AM EDT
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When you start paying them.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 8:55:20 AM EDT
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"Sex worker", "undocumented worker," ...
Interesting use of language.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 8:57:13 AM EDT
[#33]
Siouxsie Q

Das rasis,
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 9:00:16 AM EDT
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Sex workers? I thought they were called prostitutes when alive but then became hookers when dead
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 9:03:30 AM EDT
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I'll bet there's a lot of blow being snorted there too.  Or at least a lot of smashed up Adderall.
 
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 9:06:35 AM EDT
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Horny nerds with money?
You don't say?
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 12:38:38 PM EDT
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It's a European thing. The European elites know best.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 12:40:14 PM EDT
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It's like 'sales associate', or 'vice president of ...'

How about 'vice president of cock sucking'?
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 1:20:16 PM EDT
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There is nothing wrong with women working to earn a living. I have more respect for them than those who sit around all day and collect welfare.
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There is nothing wrong with women working to earn a living. I have more respect for them than those who sit around all day and collect welfare.
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Except they are probably getting paid in cash and still on the dole.

 
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 1:40:53 PM EDT
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THAT.

Stop the PC sugercoating.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 1:58:34 PM EDT
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I'm not surprised.

In the Silicon Valley, San Jose/Santa Clara area, the single male/female ratio is 8 single women for every 10 single men.  So it comes as no surprise whatsoever that whores would fill the gap.

-Gator
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Eight to ten sounds way too optimistic.  I helped open a friend's restaurant (create web site, setup POS system, run network cabling, etc.) in Atherton about twenty miles from Santa Clara, and I didn't see any females that were single.  There were a few women with wedding rings on, but out of the hundreds of people I saw in the packed large bar the week I was there, not a one was a single female.  I was looking because my friend, that is a multimillionaire after working for Sun and just turned fifty, mentioned he has never been on a date.  He thought opening a restaurant would help, but as far as I've heard, it hasn't.  The ratio I saw was 50:0.z
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 2:00:32 PM EDT
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Let see a bunch of geeks that the prom queen turned her nose up on and now lots of money to buy a girl to do what he wants.  Who would have thunk it!!


http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1860194.1404918126!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/escort10n-2-web.jpg


Would.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 2:16:26 PM EDT
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I have been a silicon valley engineer.



A 90 -120 hour work week doesn't leave much time for a traditional relationship.  Add in a 6 figure salary and $300 "date" begins to look like a reasonable cost/time trade.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 2:16:40 PM EDT
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Damn a lot has changed in the past ten years. I lived in San Jose back in 05 and I was surrounded by girls at the restaurant I worked at, most of them single. I also was fortunate to be one of only two straight guys in the whole restaurant. I'm sure the whole ratio applies to places where these nerds work, office buildings or what have you, but it didn't seem like a town full of desperate nerds at the time…at least judging by the employees/customers I saw on a daily basis
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Eight to ten sounds way too optimistic.  I helped open a friend's restaurant (create web site, setup POS system, run network cabling, etc.) in Atherton about twenty miles from Santa Clara, and I didn't see any females that were single.  There were a few women with wedding rings on, but out of the hundreds of people I saw in the packed large bar the week I was there, not a one was a single female.  I was looking because my friend, that is a multimillionaire after working for Sun and just turned fifty, mentioned he has never been on a date.  He thought opening a restaurant would help, but as far as I've heard, it hasn't.  The ratio I saw was 50:0.z
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Quoted:

I'm not surprised.



In the Silicon Valley, San Jose/Santa Clara area, the single male/female ratio is 8 single women for every 10 single men.  So it comes as no surprise whatsoever that whores would fill the gap.



-Gator


Eight to ten sounds way too optimistic.  I helped open a friend's restaurant (create web site, setup POS system, run network cabling, etc.) in Atherton about twenty miles from Santa Clara, and I didn't see any females that were single.  There were a few women with wedding rings on, but out of the hundreds of people I saw in the packed large bar the week I was there, not a one was a single female.  I was looking because my friend, that is a multimillionaire after working for Sun and just turned fifty, mentioned he has never been on a date.  He thought opening a restaurant would help, but as far as I've heard, it hasn't.  The ratio I saw was 50:0.z
If you want a woman in SJ, you can get one.  My Vietnamese female coworkers all offered to fly me to Vietnam, pick the niece I preferred and marry her.  depends on how much trouble you want to go through.

 
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 2:34:51 PM EDT
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Maya Angelou was a 'madame' when she was pimping out other women.
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 2:42:14 PM EDT
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I kinda wondered why my new Dell rebooted with the Ctrl-Alt-Ejaculate command...
Link Posted: 7/12/2014 2:48:28 PM EDT
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And I'm about to get married
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