I got this free newspaper around town.  You see them a lot in college towns, blah, blah.  They post events and what-not.

There are all these 900 numbers and escort service numbers in the back of the paper.

My question?  Has anybody ever researched these numbers and services. What is an escort?  A chick comes to your house?  If that is the case, why not call it prostitution.  Because I am sure it is not a prom date.  For example, do these 900 numbers make money?  Are they really just a serious of phone scams or guys sounding like girls with really high voices.

The asian/black/white/latina escort service and phone number?  Is that a real person.  Is that legal?  What services are they into.

It has plaqued me for the longest.  And, I hope the people of ?off2 could help me. ...Not that I would ever call.

Why not call one up and make a date? Seems like you'd find out that way...

Presumably if it's an escort, an actual person shows up. Whether they have sex with you is a different matter.

And phone sex is not illegal.

Actually, real sex is not illegal either.

In the UK at least, it's illegal to *advertise* sex, so they say that they're all escorts. Anything that just 'happens' after they get hired is your own business though.

"after they get hired is your own business though"

Well, I figured it would have to be legal and non-sex.  I am sure cops would have a lot easier time finding sex-peddlers if their phone numbers are in some magazine.  I am always curious how prostitutes get caught.  Selling sex seems like a hard crime to spot.  For example, selling drugs; a little bit more obvious.