Q:Who loves hookers?

A: Apparently dudes around the Twincities.

There have been two high profile prostitution busts this week. The first being the combined local and federal take down of a group called the ‘Nice Guys’ The Strib reports Minneapolis cops bust ‘nice guys’ sex ring. ^[1]

In an unusual scheme, a former Hennepin County lawyer worked as a pimp, flying in high-dollar prostitutes for well-off men, police say.

They call themselves “The Minnesota Nice Guys,” a group of at least 30 older, well-to-do men who police say share a common love of expensive prostitutes. Their alleged pimp is a former assistant Hennepin County attorney once responsible for locking up the justice system’s most unstable criminals and protecting its youngest victims.

Ouch.

And now it appears as though a local prostitution website called MyFastPass.com has been busted. ^[2]

The site, MyFastPass.com, was started in 2005 by a 46-year-old Woodbury woman who ran an illicit massage business in downtown Minneapolis for several years. In a search of her house last week, investigators discovered a database of more than 350 prostitutes and johns using her site, according to documents filed Tuesday. The bust created an exchange of hundreds of e-mails on sex message boards and chat rooms warning men to stay away from the site and a flurry of calls from lawyers to investigators to discuss their clients’ chances of remaining anonymous if they cooperate

Score two for law enforcement.

I know that there are many people who feel prostitution should be made legal and in the ‘Nice Guy’ ring it appears as though no one was forced into the sex ring, but it’s hard to imagine someone would choose that career without first experiencing some serious hardships in life. 

Is this as rampant as it seems?

What do you think?

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