Under Pressure, Craigslist Kills "Erotic Services" Section
Under Pressure, Craigslist Kills "Erotic Services" Section
Posted 05/14/2009 at 7:56am
| by Paul Lilly
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In what lawmakers contend was nothing more than a modern day brothel, Craigslist has decided to pull its "erotic services" ads out from the site.
"As of Wednesday, for all U.S. Craigslist sites, postings to the erotic-services category will no longer be accepted," Craigslist said in a statement. "In seven days, the category will be removed. Also effective today for all U.S. sites, a new category entitled 'adult services' will be opened for postings by legal adult service providers."
But before you think this amounts to nothing more than a name change, the classified site went on to say that all postings to the new 'adult services' section will be manually reviewed before going live. The new style posts will run $10, and then reduced to $5 for reposting once approved.
Craiglist's decision to alter its adult section came after the company's attorneys met with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, as well as attorneys general of Connecticut and Missouri.
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AlaskaDrew
May 14, 2009 at 10:12pm
What a joke, prostitution has been going on for how long now and THIS is going to stop it? They say that erotic services is just illegal prostitution. If that is so than whats the problem, the police don't want a daily updated list of prostitutes?
jwalch.hawk
May 14, 2009 at 9:21am
Oh, it was a glorified brothel. But usually at least a few of those make the "best of craigslist" section, which is always entertaining reading. So I'm totally upset about this.
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