There is seamless communication between pimps and sex buyers, ensuring delivery of women to the men who want to buy them. Increasing numbers of online sex buyer communities support predatory behaviors and exchange information regarding where and how women can be bought.
By enabling men to evade arrest for soliciting prostitution since they can remain hidden, indoors, and anonymous, the Internet is sex buyer-friendly. With private messaging, warnings about police undercover agents and stings can be broadcast to brother johns. But as indicated, talk is not illegal. Only trusted mongers and PM [private messaging] gets the job done. Watch your back people, always. There is no substitute for that. The danger is ever present, however, and we must stay aware.
Sex trafficking industry businesses such as Room Service provide background checks that help sex buyers avoid arrest for prostitution. This arrangement allows women in prostitution to screen out undercover police officers while enabling sex buyers to avoid blackmail that might be possible if a woman had his personal information.
Two cases illustrate sex buyers' use of the Internet to locate women and evade arrest. Southwest Companions, a members-only website and chatboard, had members including many professors and a former University of New Mexico president who served as leader of the site's "Hunt Club.
Use this link to get back to this page. Online prostitution and trafficking. Alexis Kennedy. Date: Spring From: Albany Law Review Vol.
