RALEIGH, N.C. -- Buxom and blonde with a toothy grin, Lexi describes herself as a fun-loving and open-minded girl --available for $180 an hour.You can find her advertised on craigslist.org, the same Internet clearinghouse that offers second-hand wheelbarrows and tennis racquets.But there's enough sex traffic on the popular site that Lexi, who hails from Denver, uses it to troll for customers. By 2 p.m. last Monday, craigslist featured 144 ads for erotic services in the Raleigh, N.C. area -- more than the total listings for apartments.Once a hush-hush trade, prostitution thrives openly on sites like craigslist, buoyed by the flood of online information about how to buy sex cheaply -- and avoid getting caught.Economists and sociologists say the Internet provides the information and anonymity to hire prostitutes in secret, fueling the illegal sex business."I'm booking appointments for the next few weeks while I'm in the area," writes Lexi in an e-mail message to The Raleigh News & Observer. "I am a (game-for anything) provider, natural blonde. ... Yes, It really is me in the pics."The ads grow like cyberweeds despite craigslist's efforts to police them. And it's not just craigslist.Around the country, it is just as easy for men to swap detailed information about the best street corners for picking up streetwalkers -- their names, their prices and reviews of their performance on a scale of 1 to 10.The traffic has grown so much that police have added the Internet to their patrols.Last year, police in New York snared eight women after they advertised sex services on craigslist. Some of them had come from as far as California to hunt new customers.Meanwhile, the online traffic builds.In a single day in late February, craigslist featured 207 erotic service ads for the Raleigh area-- not counting the personals where people seek casual sex partners.At the same time, tips for finding prostitutes in Raleigh and Durham topped 2,500 on usasexguide.info, a nationwide forum with more than 160,000 members.Information on prostitutes can easily spread globally. A traveling businessman from Arizona can track down obscure corners without having to ask dangerous questions or circle unfamiliar blocks."I only wish she was living in my home state of AZ as I would see her weekly!" raved a man on usasexguide.info, who uses the name ChicaLuv.Chat rooms and craigslist ads offer invisibility both to prostitutes and their clients, said Lena Edlund, economics professor at Columbia University who has studied the sex trade.With craigslist, they can swap information privately."The supply side here is constrained by stigma," Edlund said. "Stigma is a constraint only borne if you are identified as a prostitute."The Internet makes prostitutes and their clients more savvy and allows them a portal for safe communication.Ted Demopoulos, a New Hampshire computer consultant who has written several books about blogging, said a prostitute in England called to thank him for all the advice."I got a very nice e-mail saying she'd read both my books," he said. "She'd gotten a lot out of the second one. It shortened sales cycles, and people tended to be repeat customers."Men online pass warnings about police stings, which police say are usually wrong. But while the men show a respect for the presence of police -- whom they call "Uncle LEO's" -- few seem seriously deterred."Do you guys really think that 5-0 or 'Uncle LEO' reads these boards and finds out anything they don't actually know?" asked a usasexguide user named Raleighguy in December. "They know the girls, they know the locations, and if you've been seen cruising through they know you."The most common complaint from both prostitutes and clients isn't about police. It's about fakers.In her e-mail message, Lexi promises that she really is the woman in the picture. But there's no way to know without meeting her in person.A john named Mike in Raleigh openly complained on craigslist several weeks ago that the Internet allows dishonest people to exaggerate their own looks."The past 3 months I've (made) appointments with 4 escorts who posted ads here," he wrote. "I cannot fully express my outrage and disappointment when I met them in person." E-mail Josh Shaffer at josh.Shaffer(at)newsobserver.com(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
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