Ixiel comments on Stupid Questions February 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ixiel 08 February 2015 11:50:25AM 0 points [-]

I'm in favor of legal prostitution and am not denying your claim generally, but the idea most people (or frankly any more than let's say doubleish the current real world rate of people) being willing to prostitute themselves for six figures does not agree with my intuition at all.

Do you have a source in mind or do we just have different intuitions?

Comment author: Lumifer 08 February 2015 08:26:39PM 2 points [-]

does not agree with my intuition at all

Look beyond your own social circle.

Do you have a source in mind

Look e.g. at the numbers for the so-called sugar daddies/sugar babies sites. (here or here, etc.)

Comment author: Ixiel 09 February 2015 01:40:09PM 0 points [-]

does not agree with my intuition at all

Look beyond your own social circle

Oh I did, the figures for any social circle in which I am has a rate of 0% .

Do you have a source in mind

Look e.g. at the numbers for the so-called sugar daddies/sugar babies sites. (here or here, etc.)

I may be misinterpreting, but wouldn't that fall within the "current real world rate" of prostitution I mentioned?

But I guess as to the question asked, of a data source for the prostitution rate change at six figure rates, that might be a hard (albeit perhaps quite fun for researchers) study to run, so I'll just take that add a no.

Again, total tangent. I agree with your base claim.