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Why does Craigslist run kinky ads

Summary: Why does Craigslist run kinky ads 1 It s been a lousy few months for sex on Craigslist First 40 state attorneys general banded together to demand that the world s biggest classified site take down its erotic services read prostitution ads See correction at the end of this article Then in March right on cue a man in New York was murdered by a teenager he met through Craigslist Soon after Boston cops arrested Philip Markoff the med student accused of robbing and in one case killing escorts he found through Craigslist Now South Carolina s attorney general is threatening to prosecute the site s employees Just by being good guys we ve created a culture of trust and fairness the site s eponymous founder Craig Newmark once told Wired Well sort of if you don t count the occasional Jack the Ripper wannabe Nothing spells bad PR like a sex and murder scandal If Craigslist were a conventional company it would have a crisis PR firm gunning the engines to get as far away from sex ads as possible But Craigslist is not Many outlets have reported that Craigslist would drop its erotic services ads but this is essentially a fiction It has only reluctantly agreed to vet ads for explicit prostitution offers ads that euphemistically offer massage or just leave the details of about what to expect are still OK and replaced the controversial category with the essentially identical adult services Meanwhile the casual encounters section ads for no strings attached sex that are often more lurid than the paid sex ads in erotic services remains as active and unregulated as ever And Craigslist has even managed to fan the fires by suing the attorney general of South Carolina All of which raises an obvious question Why do the people behind the 13th most visited site in the United States run ads for prostitution and kink in the first place It s been a lousy few months for sex on Craigslist First 40 state attorneys general banded together to demand that the Why does Craigslist run kinky ads 1 It s been a lousy few months for sex on Craigslist First 40 state attorneys general banded together to demand that the world s biggest classified site take down its erotic services read prostitution ads See correction at the end of this article Then in March right on cue a man in New York was murdered by a teenager he met through Craigslist Soon after Boston cops arrested Philip Markoff the med student accused of robbing and in one case killing escorts he found through Craigslist Now South Carolina s attorney general is threatening to prosecute the site s employees Just by being good guys we ve created a culture of trust and fairness the site s eponymous founder Craig Newmark once told Wired Well sort of if you don t count the occasional Jack the Ripper wannabe Nothing spells bad PR like a sex and murder scandal If Craigslist were a conventional company it would have a crisis PR firm gunning the engines to get as far away from sex ads as possible But Craigslist is not Many outlets have reported that Craigslist would drop its erotic services ads but this is essentially a fiction It has only reluctantly agreed to vet ads for explicit prostitution offers ads that euphemistically offer massage or just leave the details of about what to expect are still OK and replaced the controversial category with the essentially identical adult services Meanwhile the casual encounters section ads for no strings attached sex that are often more lurid than the paid sex ads in erotic services remains as active and unregulated as ever And Craigslist has even managed to fan the fires by suing the attorney general of South Carolina All of which raises an obvious question Why do the people behind the 13th most visited site in the United States run ads for prostitution and kink in the first place It s been a lousy few months for sex on Craigslist First 40 state attorneys general banded together to demand that the

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