Village Voice Media Still Cashing In On Escort Ads
Despite calls from 21 attorney generals across the nation and child sex trafficking advocates like the Rebecca Project, Village Voice Media (parent company of the LA Weekly) and its online classified site Backpage.com is steamrolling ahead with its decision to keep accepting escort ads–months after the government forced Craigslist to shutter its popular “erotic services” section. That decision, though ethically questionable, is reaping huge financial dividends according to the New York Observer.
Backpage, which is a fraction of the size of Craigslist, is the only popular classifieds site left willing to host the paid escort and body-rub ads that are often thinly veiled fronts for prostitution.
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