We all basically know that this is going on. But this was in today's New Yok Times, buried in an article in the Business section about "racy ads" --
< Members of the public morals division of the New York City Police Department
said they frequently read the classified sections in New York magazine, The Village
Voice, The Observer and other more purely sex-oriented magazines, using the
information for police investigations. The officers said they believed the ads
encouraged prostitution.
"We will call the number, have a location set up and see if what they are offering is
legal or not," said Lt. Stephen Biegel, a Police Department spokesman. "If it is not,
they are arrested."
Lieutenant Biegel said investigators also monitored the Internet for the same
purpose.
"It's not our job," he said, to discourage the publications from publishing the ads.
The New York City Department of Health also monitored the ads.
Sandra Mullin, a department spokeswoman, said, "We do respond to complaints
and sometimes participate in the sting operations to monitor places where unsafe sex
might be occurring, and we do monitor some of the magazines, both gay and
straight, that might be advertising sex in public places." >
They prob'ly hang out here, too.
< Members of the public morals division of the New York City Police Department
said they frequently read the classified sections in New York magazine, The Village
Voice, The Observer and other more purely sex-oriented magazines, using the
information for police investigations. The officers said they believed the ads
encouraged prostitution.
"We will call the number, have a location set up and see if what they are offering is
legal or not," said Lt. Stephen Biegel, a Police Department spokesman. "If it is not,
they are arrested."
Lieutenant Biegel said investigators also monitored the Internet for the same
purpose.
"It's not our job," he said, to discourage the publications from publishing the ads.
The New York City Department of Health also monitored the ads.
Sandra Mullin, a department spokeswoman, said, "We do respond to complaints
and sometimes participate in the sting operations to monitor places where unsafe sex
might be occurring, and we do monitor some of the magazines, both gay and
straight, that might be advertising sex in public places." >
They prob'ly hang out here, too.