Prostitution in a large American city and a man who films them.
I am livid.

I stumbled across a video interview with a street prostitute... a tired-eyed woman eating corn on the cob talking about her recent findings that she was infected with HIV and Hep-C. I noticed the poster of this video had several videos and watched a few, thinking they might be interesting-- WOOO! I quickly realized that any sensitivity I perceived going on in the director/subject relationship here was PURELY coincidental.

This idiot who thinks he is this real crime-biter likes to go around with a video camera filming prostitutes and their johns and then berating the women after the john leaves thinking he is performing some sore of public service in the name of "families" and "children". It's seriously like a street hooker version of Girls Gone Wild. It's sickening. Then hundreds of comments are left mocking the women for being ugly, slutty, HIV-spreading "murderers", unworthy of compassion assistance sympathy understanding or pity, et cetera.

One commenter, beating the dead horse of a credit card ad campaign, said in reference to one clip "Leather vest: $50; Hooker: $200; Getting caught having sex with a total crackwhore: priceless" $200??? REALLY????? Is that what people think street prostitutes make on one trick?? Like they don't get their money and drugs stolen, beat up, ripped off... People are so ignorant about who gets hurt by prostitution. Some of the WINNING comments on his profile include:

• "Keep up the good job."
  
• "love the kind of things u do to help ur city man...!!!!"
  
• "Its nice to see you are doing something for your community by exposing prostitutes. Good work. I subscribed to your vids."
  
• "I really hope you get paid back for all the hard work you do."
  

I subscribe to your vids??? WHY??? And should you get paid for looking around your city for prostitutes, finding them (imagine that!) and filming it to put on YouTube??? I just feel like it just really shows that people want to criminalize women in general, like they are the wicked and evil perpetrators of crime in this situation. Not to mention that they get kicks out of seeing women forced down by horrible situations, and getting caught in acts they feel are shameful and horrible.

I lived on the hottest block for prostitution in Cincinnati for almost two years and saw it going on everyday at lunch time. I don't give a shit about "families" and "children" and the imagined harm they suffer at the hands of prostitutes. These women are from families themselves, and often have children!!! Don't those children matter?

Women don't wake up in the morning and think "I'm becoming a prostitute today!" but men do decide "I'm going to look for a hooker today at lunch."

I tried commenting on this guy's profile to add a grain of salt to the thoughts of his devoted subscribing fans, but for some reason it didn't let me post it. I just had to vent about it. Back me up, choir!