Prostitution could (or will) spike during RNC

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.twincities.com/ci_10339904

Of the 5,000 or so "erotic services" ads on the Twin Cities craigslist Web site, the word "Republican" appears twice. In an ad looking for event "hostesses" during next week's presidential nominating convention in St. Paul, and in another ad promising "your secret is safe w/me!" A third recently posted ad promises "RNC fun."

That's not a lot. From the mountain of tongue-in-cheek speculation among local prostitutes, you'd expect more.

Just wait, they say.

"The day before the convention, you'll see a hundred of 'em pop up," said Jennifer, who has been a prostitute for 27 years, she said, in seven major cities, from Fresno to Chicago. Now, she's in St. Paul.

It's nothing personal, she said. Nothing to do with the word "Republican," despite some partisan aspersions.

It has a lot more to do with the fact that a convention of about 45,000 people — people with significantly more disposable income than an average "john" — is in the Twin Cities.

And the first thing prostitutes do when they get to a new city, Jennifer said, is find out when the conventions are coming.

"Any convention. The science convention, maybe not, but the medical convention — it's just you're going to be making more money."

And the Republican National Convention?

"It'll be just like the Super Bowl."

[ZombieHorde]

1. Would there be any way to confim this?

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Well, it would be counter-intuitive, as well as irrational, to doubt it, wouldn't it?

The sin of unprincipled avarice - is there any other? - can no more be self-contained than any other serious vice.

[ZombieHorde]

11. counter-intuitive, as well as irrational

Well, it is republicans that I want to prove it to.

[Cleita]

2. This convention will have "Johns" with more disposable income than

average or so says Jennifer.

Also, maybe the Democrats as a whole don't need to pay to get laid.

[bemildred]

3. Really hadn't ought to say "tongue-in-cheek speculation" in this context.

[ladywnch]

4. this is pretty much a given fact based on past conventions.....its

been talked about for months. A lot of these women follow the Rep conventions because they have always been so good for 'business'.

[Dan]

5. Yep, I would guess

that every transvestite (in the trade) within 5 states will be there...

[libodem]

6. Just like the traffic to the Bath Houses in SLC

during Conference.

[torbird]

8. In These Times Magazine had this in 2005

ITT, out of Chicago (and online, now) had a story on this phenomenon in 2005. It's a decent dissection of GOP-style sex and psychology.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2371/

[caraher]

9. "Any convention. The science convention, maybe not..."

I once heard that there was a major physics convention in Vegas, and the hotels and casinos lost so much money they told the physicists, "Don't come back!" ;)

[27inCali]

10. Why do prostitutes from around the bay area collect

in the tiny little town of Monte Rio, CA every summer?

-the Bohemian Grove i.e. Republican Summer Camp.

The actual gathering is on a private plot of pristine forrest land surrounded by mountains, but it's right next to the sleepy little mountain town where the Repugs like to sneak over and pick up prostitutes.

It's a well known legend around SF. Google it if you haven't heard of it because it's a real trip once you realize it's real: the Bohemian Club actually has a headquarters in downtown SF complete with cryptic seals in the vestibule and everything.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. As I posted in the Minnesota Forum

our local entertainment weekly, City Pages, has two pages of full-color ads from sexually oriented businesses, coming right out and welcoming the Republicans to town. I wish these ads were online or that I had a website where I could post them, because they are pretty funny, with women in red, white, and blue bikinis advertising $10 lap dances and $1 pitchers of beer (which supports my suspicion that middle-class male Republicans are just overgrown frat boys at heart).

[tannybogus]

13. Only if they know how to tap! nt

[yurbud]

14. yep, the RNC is like Christmas for Jeff Gannon, official White House prostitute:

http://mysite.verizon.net/myk15/bushhugsmanho.html