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How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite
Published: September 6, 2010
The stories in Patricia Engel’s striking debut collection are like snapshots from someone’s photo album: glimpses of relatives, friends, lovers and acquaintances, sometimes posing, sometimes caught by the camera unawares. There are portraits of Latinos in suburban “Gringolandia,” and portraits of young drifters in Miami, 16 of them sharing a single apartment, mattresses crammed together on the floor “like it was war times.” There’s a skinny 16-year-old boy who always wears faded jeans and “a white button-down shirt that looked like it only got washed in the sink,” a high school mean girl who develops a fatal case of anorexia, a womanizing pot dealer who becomes the narrator’s best friend and a Colombian beauty queen who comes to America and is forced into prostitution.

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In major metropolitan areas such as New York City, however, it seems unlikely that disappearance of adult services on Craigslist will have any effect at all. While Craigslist cost nothing to use for those looking for escorts, and most of the other services entail a fee for both the escort listed as well as the potential ‘john’, for those looking to participate in the world’s oldest profession as either a consumer or provider, a fee will likely not stand in the way.
The legality of advertising escort services is murky at best. There is nothing illegal about paying for the time of somebody else. There is nothing illegal about paying for companionship. Paying for sex, however, is illegal in New York City. Despite consistent attempts to eliminate prostitution in New York City, however, few believe that totally eliminating it will ever happen.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) — The Web site “Craigslist” has censored its “Adult Services” section, but ads seeking money for sexual services are still appearing, ABC News said.
Craigslist censored the “Adult Services” section late Friday, but ads offering sexual encounters were still appearing on its “Casual Encounters” section, ABC reported.
Ads alluding to exchanges of money for sexual services were found on Craigslist Web sites in New York, Las Vegas and other cities Sunday, the network said.
The ads used terms such as “fun time$” or a massage by “attractive independent female,” the report said. Craigslist had made no comment since the Web site’s link to the adult services section was taken down.
Craigslist blocked its adult services section in the United States just days after attorneys general in 17 states complained the site promoted prostitution.

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Practitioners and patrons of the world’s oldest profession will no longer be able to conduct business on Craigslist, as the classifieds site has now censored all of the pages under its famed ‘Adult Services’ section in the U.S. On Friday, pages offering or seeking adult services were suddenly replaced by a giant ‘CENSORED’ bar. The site still has yet to comment on the decision.
A group of 17 state attorneys has also been conducting a major investigation into the site’s efforts to control illegal activity, and recently sent a letter to Craigslist, demanding that the company remove its lurid — and lucrative — section.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who spearheaded the investigation, told Reuters that Craigslist could be making $36.3 million or more per year from prostitution or human trafficking-related transactions.

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Across the street from the former towers site, there’s a two-story Burger King where visitors can get a clear glimpse into the new construction. There are the department store Century 21, which sells everything from sunglasses to shoes, and the St. Paul’s Chapel, which amazingly sustained no damage in the attacks, and the church’s graveyard. The city’s oldest parish, St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, is a block away. A mosque is four blocks away and a strip club is two.
Like every part of the city, it has its morning and evening surge of commuters, with suited office workers dashing to the underground trains. It has ongoing construction — the workers eating lunches from brown paper sacks — and touristy knickknacks — Statue of Liberty figurines, “I ♥ NY” backpacks — for sale on sidewalks.
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The business presence lost after Sept. 11 needs to be revived, Wiederlight said, but the types of businesses haven’t been regulated. A strip club called New York Dolls is two blocks from the former Twin Towers site.

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