Atlanta's underground sex trade is larger than Seattle, D.C., and Denver combined. The price of a sex act in major U.S. cities can range anywhere from $15 to considerably more than $1,000. More pimps shell out for transportation and housing than for hotels or clothes.
Those are just a few of the insights gleaned from a massive new government-sponsored study from the Urban Institute on the underground economy of sex, drugs, and guns, which looks at eight cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington
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