Online posts offer rooms in exchange for sex
Apr 5th, 2006 | by CousinPaulie | Posted in humor, nerd culture, press, urban, weird news | Comments Off
SAN FRANCISCO - In Atlanta, an online ad offers a room in exchange for “sex and light office duty.” In Los Angeles, a one-bedroom pool house is free “to a girl that is skilled and willing.” And in New York City, a $700-a.m.onth room is available at a discount to a fit female willing to provide sex.
On the widely used Web site Craigslist.org, some landlords and apartment dwellers looking for roommates are offering to accept sex in lieu of rent.
“They have to be attractive. I don’t let just anybody come into my house,” said Mike, a man who answered the phone at the New York City listing but declined to give his last name – and refused to say whether he has, in fact, collected the rent under the sheets.
The offering of shelter for sex is older than, well, real estate itself.
But the online come-ons are franker than anything you might see in the newspaper classifieds, because they are not edited by Craigslist, and perhaps also because the anonymity of the Internet often causes people to shed their inhibitions.
Trading housing for sex is a form of prostitution. But the police aren’t kicking down doors.
