The Super Bowl Prostitute Myth: 100,000 Hookers Won't be Showing Up in Dallas

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2011-02-03 16:56

Article here. Excerpt:

'The alarm bells reached peak decibel in November, when Dallas Police Sergeant Louis Felini told the The Dallas Morning News that between 50,000 and 100,000 prostitutes could descend on the metroplex for the Super Bowl. The call to outrage had sounded.

His estimate was astonishing. At the higher figure, it meant that every man, woman and child holding a ticket would have their own personal hooker, from the vice presidential wing of FedEx to Little Timmy from Green Bay.
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That leaves the outside world to speculate—usually with stats only appreciated after eight beers near closing time. Professors pitch junk studies whereby every runaway girl is a potential prostitute.

Advocacy groups take those numbers and fan them by the thousands, buffing them with lurid anecdotes of "sex slaves" and "victims of human trafficking." The fervent simply can't believe that isolated cases are just that: isolated.

But it's hard to kindle interest in the world's oldest profession. So they latch onto the occasional news story or CNN special. After all, children in distress sell.

"Underage girls make better victims, better poster children," says McNeill, a former librarian with a master's from LSU. "I'm 44. What kind of believable victim would I make?"

The study by the Dallas Women's Foundation shows how the numbers are baked. It hired a company to gauge the percentage of juvenile hookers in Dallas. Its scientific method: Look at online escort ads and guess the ages of the women pictured!'

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by my girlfriend who said something along the lines of "I'm not surprised at all that this would increase ...". I told her it was likely as much of a hoax as the last big flap.

I fear her reaction to this is in part due to the corruption of the liberal indoctrination required to become a counselor these days, but I also know how unquestioning much of the public is about what they read; both are severely troubling to me. This type of lie has gotten formulaic in its pitch, and uncritical reprinting in the press. No matter how outlandish, if its repeated often enough we spend our time on the defensive, rather than able to tackle the issues that really matter to us.

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Submitted by Timber on Fri, 2011-02-04 09:23