The Underground world of commercial sex

Description

This ABC News program featuring Diane Sawyer made contact with prostitutes-impoverished street hookers, high-end escorts, legal working women in the trade-and the johns who pay them to learn firsthand how this underground world, hidden in plain sight, functions. Topics include the expansion of escort services and massage parlors onto the Internet, legalized prostitution in Nevada at the deluxe Moonlight Bunny Ranch, and society's tendency to target prostitutes for arrest more frequently than their customers. The relationship between drug addiction and prostitution, codependency between prostitutes and pimps, and life-threatening dangers faced by prostitutes are also considered.

Runtime

85 min

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Date of Publication

[2009], c2008

Database

Films on Demand

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