Talk:Street prostitution

message: Removed this: "Or maybe this is because every Friday and Saturday night mainstream media portrays sex workers as the easy target for violence on dull cop shows." Totally unnecessary. Nathanmurray1 (talk) 02:58, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed this 

message: There's a note on the article page that says "The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see discussion on the talk page." So where's the dispute? This article could certantly be more neutral, not to mention better organized, but I don't see any disputes on this talk page. A better tag would be 
:I don't see any neutrality dispute, so I changed it to . Mostly due to the following line:
:Some countries have tolerance for street prostitution, although only in restricted areas. Some known examples are Holland, Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico and Brazil. In most of these countries were street prostitution is regulated, the girls get medical check ups every month, and follow safe sex procedures.
::It seems like this sentence might be considered to lack a NPOV:
::"Contrary to what is presented in movies (such as Pretty Woman), street prostitutes are sometimes the least attractive of all types of prostitutes."
::It would be neutral to say that street prostitutes are often considered to be the least attractive (I'll assume that's true; I do not know).  However, I'm going to vote that  does seem like the deserved tag, for the article does seem very questionable and inconsistent. -Wild Bill 01:02, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
:::This sentence stood out for me also. It strikes me as unverifiable, and based on subjective views of beauty. Cnwb 10:42, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality? 

message: I removed the following pararaph, as it wasn't good at all.  Some form of it could be put back, if it were greatly improved:  "In the United States, New York City is the place that immortalized the image of street prostituation in the American psyche. In New York City, mainly Times Square and its surronding areas there is a dearth of prostitues when compared to the plethora seen in past years. However, prostitues still can be found if one is an experienced john. Many prostitues still do their "strolls" in the area a few blocks away from the heart of Times Square. They are dressed less conspicously and in some instances wait to be soilicated by the men. Often times the prostitues  will give subtle signs about their profession such as winking at a potential client. One time hot bed areas for prostitution like 29th street and 11th Ave and the even more notorious 44th street and 8th ave do not have the overabundance of prostuites they once had. Finding a street walker used to be a "sure thing" in the Times Square area and while to some extent it still is, it is now  hit or miss. Today the prime  hours to look for street walkers in the Times Square area  are between 12:30- 3:30. Outside of this area of Manhattan street walkers are present but are not nearly as prevalent. Prostiutes can be found in the Meat Packing district (which is pushing to be more "upscale" and "posh" thus causing a decilne in street walkers similar to that found in Times Sqaure) Hells Kitchen (which is a stones throw away from Times Square), the streets around central park on the lower west side (this location  is very tenuous) and outside of cheap and less reputable hotels in midtown."  --Xyzzyplugh 15:34, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, I think the paragraph actually originally lamented the lack of prostitutes with words like "sadly" and so on. Might have been original research there :-) Something about how NYC did "immortalize the image of street prostituation in the American psyche" might be good to mention if sourced, movies like Taxi Driver and others I'm sure did shape the image of the street prostitute greatly. --W.marsh 15:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed paragraph

message: okay, by this comment I do not mean to offend any editors who may have worked on this page.  I am also certainly not implying that the editors of this page are prostitutes, but after reading this article it seemed to me that the article was written by a prostitute.  I'm sure this wasn't the case, but it talks about all the freedoms prositutes have and that it's only the pimps who exploit the prostitutes, and seems very very sympathetic to the prostitutes cause.  Hence why it feels like it was written by a prostitute, I think perhaps a more balanced approach of liberal and coservative viewpoints should be used.  TotallyTempo 02:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: this page

message: Its insane a profession like hooking would have "fancruft". This article reads like a teenage boy adding remakrs about his favourite automobile on a Ferrari page. FIX IT, AND DON'T GLAMORIZE THIS PROFESSION. Jeez after reading this I feel like submitting a resume.
Some totally preposterous remarks or claims:
*" This type of sex work offers the most freedom while it can sometimes be the least respected and most dangerous form of prostitution."
*" Street prostitution is easy and sometimes more profitable than other types of sex work in a society which is generally hostile to transsexuals and young sex workers. "
*"Street prostitution is a viable alternative for many young poor women who otherwise wouldn't be able to make a decent living, because of the lack of opportunities. "
A quick look at the lives of hookers, who were eventually killed by Robert Pickton/otherwise, shows how awesome this profession is. CJ DUB 00:41, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This craziness

message: I just saw a documentary that said the term hooker originated in new york or ny city in an area geographically shaped like a hook along the water maybe manhattan? that is called hook. . . something? Any New Yorkers out there, help out a bit with the name of this strip of land along the coast in New York.  Lots of sex workers used to frequent there hence the term "hooker". 
Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.108.94.103 (talk) 20:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The ORigination of the Term "Hooker" should be included 

message: I removed the pimp section because it seemed to be pure stereotyping and original research, and had an unreferenced section template that had been there since October. If anyone finds legitimate sources on pimps, then I encourage you to add the section back in. 
Also, I made some changes to remove gender bias. There were several parts of the article that implied that all street prostitutes are women and all customers are men, which is most certainly not the case. It would be nice if this article had information about male (transgender or otherwise) prostitutes, if it differs from the information about female prostitutes. Ketsuekigata (talk) 03:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pimp Section and Gender Bias 

message: I've removed the globalise tag from the Risk & Research section. Info from Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, UK, United States, and Zambia would seem to satisfy a global outlook. John B123 (talk) 13:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed globalise tag 

message: I would like a colorable map where I can draw up the street prostitution legality statuses. Where can I get a colorable map? I also would like to make sure the country borders can be pre-done so that I can insert colors in with no problems. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 05:08, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Qwertyxp2000, try :File:BlankMap-World.svg. Regards. --John B123 (talk) 06:39, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Cool. Do I use Inkscape to color in the SVG? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 02:51, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hi Qwertyxp2000, that's what I use. --John B123 (talk) 06:17, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coloring the legality status stuff 

message: This article is pretty out of date with the current acceptable language used for this topic. Although prostitution as a topic might be acceptable, sex workers and sex work are more of the main stream words used to describe people in this area of work. Would anyone be opposed to changing it or adding a new section that talks about the more modern words we use? 
--Janestring (talk) 20:19, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi . Whilst sex work/sex worker is the modern 'politically correct' term, there are those that are opposed to the term. In particular supporters of the Nordic model, who view the inclusion of 'work' as legitimising prostitution which they oppose. To confuse things further there are variations of sex work/er, for example UNAIDS uses FSW (female sex worker) for females but MSM (men who have sex with men) for males. Others use FSSW (full service sex worker) to differentiate between those engaged in prostitution to other types of sex workers. In more general terms, using sex work/er instead of prostitution/prostitute can lead to confusion in certain circumstances as sex work includes pornography, stripping etc. as well as prostitution. There was a previous discussion about this following edit warring on several articles between those who supported the use of sex work/er and those supporting prostitution/prostitute. The general feeling during the discussion was that either terminology was acceptable but that existing articles should not be changed to use different terminology. Regards. --John B123 (talk) 23:08, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  More current language