Someday I want some to explain this all to me.
It is either complete stupidity, or risk taking, of some of each?
There are a lot more stings in the U.S. than Canada, certainly. But if you analyze them, they all fall into predictable categories.
A rational person avoids them. I am reminded of the Richard Pryor skit where he asks why White people stay in haunted houses like the one in Amityville Horror. He plays the Black family man who has saved up to buy a home and when he and his family enter the home and hear the demon say “Get Out”, he says too bad this didn’t work out for us and they leave.
Even in Canada, the agencies and independents avoid explicit messaging for brand new customers. But in stings, there is always blatant, explicit discussions of sex acts for money when it is the police on the other end. If it is a new ad in a wealthy suburb in Canada and the texts immediately get explicit in terms of sex for a minor amount of money, that might be the cops. Take Richard Pryor’s advice and leave.
If the U.S. law enforcement agencies do stings on Backpage and SkipTheGames, I don’t use them. If the Phoenix and Orlando police are the Gestapo when it comes to commercial sex, I don’t partake there unless I know the lady from someplace else. If the incall is next to the HolyRoller First Church of God Almighty, I think I will forfeit any deposit and run, since the church members have probably noticed the foot traffic.
In Canada, some of the small suburbs of Toronto don’t want this activity. So go to Toronto metro. Same with the street scene. Avoid it anywhere. The cops attack it.
I know some guys can’t control themselves when it comes to underaged women. But even then, the 16 year old knows that 99.9 percent of her potential customers are going to block her number permanently if she says pssst, I am 16 but used my 20 year old sister’s ID to take out the ad, so she would never say that. If a lady does say that, you are talking to a cop. It is like Adam Corolla says when he is watching To Catch a Predator. Why don’t these guys just get a pizza delivery uniform? If the teen answers, he gets pizza and teen poon. If it it a guy with a boom microphone, he says is this 213 Maple Street? It isn’t? Sorry wrong house.
But whenever a prostitution sting is done, the police get like 50 responses that lead to an arrest, even though every guy on boards like this can tell it was a fake ad. But the guys who get arrested seem completely dumbfounded of what they walked into.