Flutterby™! : Superfreakonomics gets prostitution wrong 2009-12-09 18:50:58.863734+01

Superfreakonomics gets prostitution wrong

2009-12-09 18:50:58.863734+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I enjoyed Freakonomics, but I've heard nothing but bad about the sequel: Superfreakonomics. Figleaf's Real Adult Sex piles on to the criticism: The Real Lesson of That Dumb Chapter in Superfeakonomics:

The story in Levitt and Dubner’s column about the woman who flies to Texas to do “erotic” things to a guy with his briefcase is emblematic not of advances in prostitution. (I’ll give you a nickel if I can’t find an example of similar fetish-serving sex work any time between, say, 1809 and 1959.) It’s emblematic of all that’s left!

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