#1 in being the city where pimps make the most money per week, that is. Go Atlanta!
Honestly, I can say that I’m kind of surprised and that I’m also not surprised by this revelation. It’s not that surprising given all the evidence of there being a correlation between minorities and prostitution, and Atlanta being such a diverse place with a large wealth of minorities in and surrounding the city, it comes as no surprise that the prostitution rate is subsequently as high.
However, I do find it somewhat surprising, because as long as I’ve lived here, I’ve never seen any evidence of prostitution with my very own eyes. Now I don’t make a habit of deliberately driving down streets in the middle of the night or anything, but I am no stranger to night driving, through areas where prostitution might be prone to occurring. Maybe it’s not like an 80s movie, where street walkers in leather skirts and leopard print boobie shirts are hanging out on well-lit sidewalks, but the way the articles mention a correlation between prostitution to there being three major interstates gives off a little implication that some spontaneous street propositioning might still be somewhat of a practice today. Regardless, the bottom line is that I can’t say that I’ve seen any hookers in Atlanta, in spite of the evidence that apparently either a lot exist, or that they’re really expensive here.
What’s interesting is the one specific location mentioned, Fulton Industrial Boulevard. I used to work off of Fulton Industrial Boulevard, so I’m actually quite familiar with that area. I have a hard time believing that that region is somewhat a hot bed of prostitution, considering the fact that there’s very few “neighborhoods” much less any residential area off of it. As the name implies, it’s a road that’s pretty much 90% industrial. Factories, warehouses and corporate headquarters are all that are on the road, with very few alternate occupants. Seriously, going out for lunch in that area was literally limited to like a Wendy’s and a QT, although I’m sure there’s a Bojangles there now too.
There are maybe one or two office parks off of Fulton Industrial that I could imagine are good areas for rappers and pimps and their hos to go hang out at after-hours, but there’s still almost no places for them to actually consummate transactions. So I’m guessing that there’s a whole lot of in-car action going on in parking lots in the AM hours or something. Either way, it’s kind of funny to think that not far from where I used to work, is where it’s speculated that lots of prostitution is going on.
Another interesting aspect to this study is that revealed from another source is that Latino brothels and massage parlors are a high contributor to these numbers – the thing is, almost all of these are up in Gwinnett County, which if anyone wants to get technical, really isn’t necessarily part of Atlanta. It would be like people in Virginia saying Dumfries and Fredericksburg were “Northern Virginia” in spite of being like the equivalent of the distance to the moon.
Admittedly, my desire to continue writing about this subject has fallen completely flat now, so we’ll end it with a lame attempt at humor in saying that thanks to this study, I now know where I could probably find some hookers or a happy ending if I were ever so desperate for one.
