Vaginal Variety – Hookers.com

If you don’t read Slate often, you should start now. Apart from being dead on politically (or at least opening a reasoned and rational debate), they often have articles about sex. And this, to put it mildly, is no prude shit (with some economics to boot). Check out “Hookers.com: How e-commerce is transforming the oldest profession”:

Third, there’s what you might call the eBay effect. Before the Internet, there must have been people who wanted to sell Scooby Doo lunch boxes and Star Wars phaser props, and people who wanted to buy them, but how could they connect? Likewise, 10 years ago, even if I’d had the inclination and the $2,500 to spend on vaginal variety, I wouldn’t have had the faintest idea where to turn. But now, thanks to the Web, exchanging dead presidents for live girls couldn’t be easier. And if, as I tend to believe (don’t you?) there are more men who would pay to be “escorted” than gorgeous women willing to provide that service, then the Internet will pull more buyers than sellers into the high-end market, thereby inflating prices.