The Economics of Whoredom

Stevin Levitt was a part of a study on prostitutes in Chicago concerning the economic data for whoring.

Most relevant information can be gleaned from the following chart:



Highlights:
Blacks pay less on average than any other race.

While being pimped is dangerous, it's more rewarding economically, and is less dangerous than turning tricks without a pimp and risk being beaten and raped by Johns, cops, or gang members.

3% of all tricks are freebies given to cops to avoid arrest, but a hooker is only arrested on average of once every 450 tricks, suggesting that whores are having sex with cops in Chicago more often than they get arrested. They're also slightly more likely to give freebies to cops than gang members.

Well, that and don't fuck a whore in Washington park, because you'll get the AIDS. Jesus.

Just out of curiosity, Brady, have you ever read Levitt's Freakonomics? Has some data along the same lines about how drug dealers are likely to live with their parents and stuff. Really interesting.

I hear mixed reactions to Freakonomics, but I guess the data is worth it?

Not getting a prostitute in Roseland. Done and done.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

I hear mixed reactions to Freakonomics, but I guess the data is worth it?

Well, some of his stuff is a stretch. But it's clearly a book meant to kindle interest and show economics as something other than data sheets about political spending. So it's not exactly hard economic theory. But it's fun.

That's pretty fucked that almost 100% of the Johns in Washington Park go greek.

Pretty disgusting if you ask me.

Is this going to published similarly to how Freakonomics is? I haven't read the whole book, currently reading it, but it's really entertaining.

Interesting. Nice find. Cute how they make white men throw out a proposed price first. But about that chart...is that only a subset of their data?

-How come the age data doesn't sum to 100%?
-How come the the oral % for "whole sample" is less than the % for each sub-set?

Spoiler:

(Must...resist...obvious pun...)

Another point worth considering: usually hookers will charge a premium for sex without a condom, which Johns will generally pay. But in Chicago the practice is so common that premiums aren't charged, and it's the John's responsibility to use a condom.

I will try to find the link,

However I believe that the chance for male to contract aids from an infected female is something like 1/1000. Vice Versa though the chance increases to 1/100. Using a condom lowers that chance to something like one in a million.

So basically, it's much more dangerous for women in the case of a infected partner.