Nashville Adult Entertainment: Tennessee joins 16 states demanding removal of Craigslist’s adult services
24 08 2010Nashville, TN: Attorney General Bob Cooper today joined 16 other state attorneys general asking craigslist to immediately take down the Adult Services portion of the site due to continued allegations of rampant prostitution advertisements and growing public frustration.
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“Your much?touted ‘manual review’ of Adult Services ads has failed to yield any discernable reduction in obvious solicitations,” the letter says. “We recognize that craigslist may lose considerable revenue generated by the Adult Services ads,” the attorneys general said. “No amount of money can justify the scourge of illegal prostitution, and the suffering of the woman and children who will continue to be victimized, in the market and trafficking provided by craigslist.”
Even following its 2008 public pledge that it would better police its own site, the attorneys general allege that craigslist remains a hot spot for blatant prostitution ads. In July 2010, two girls who said that they were trafficked for sex through craigslist wrote an “open letter” to craigslist officials, pleading for the elimination of the Adult Services section. The girls’ poignant account told a horrific story of brutalization and assault suffered not just by them, but also by untold numbers of other children, the attorneys general said.