Perhaps legal brothels have increased the supply of ‘less skanky than streetwalker’ prosititutes and the streets have become the discount mall for last season’s goods and the black market for illegal items where the brothels are now the high street retailers.

I’m just surprised that this problem described in the Stuff article is a new one – this is the oldest profession after all. I’d suspect the only change in the playing field is the law reform and legal brothels seem to be the biggest visible change I can think of.

I think it is more likely that they under-estimate their probability of detection, as the sample of ‘johns’ who are left on the market for the underage prostitutes is biased by the fact that they are the ones that haven’t been caught yet – irrationality is a bit of a strong word, its always my last resort 😉