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FeedSex for sale in the 925
When Associate Editor Martha Ross showed me the website, I
knew we had to do a story. The site was basically an online superstore
with ads posted by prostitutes peddling their services in Danville,
Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, and Lamorinda. I was shocked that such an
elaborate network existed, and that it was driving a booming
prostitution business right here in Diablo Country.
The Internet has made it easier for prostitutes to set up shop in
the bedroom communities where their wealthy clients live; call girls
now offer their services in every one of our family-friendly towns.
The police are mostly worried about associated problems like drugs
and organized crime. But when I talked to my friends—male and
female—about this story, their concern was for families. They don’t
want prostitutes in every apartment complex, possibly spreading disease
and threatening marriages.
The scary thing is that the police can’t really fight back. The
only sure way to make an arrest is to catch someone in the act. Even
then, the crime is only a misdemeanor—hardly worth prosecuting. Maybe
our cities should post photos of the johns, as Oakland has done, to
discourage them from stopping by for a lunchtime tryst.
That might be hard to pull off. But this is one business boom the East Bay can do without. Please read our story on page 62.
Jeffrey Decoster
Decoster, whose credits include The New Yorker
and Rolling Stone, likes that he never knows what he’ll be asked to
illustrate next—one day a high-heeled shoe, the next a hedgehog. For
“Prostitution.com” (page 62), he says, “I wanted to place a suggestive
bedroom scene within an apparently innocent suburban neighborhood.”
Mike Krolak
While rounding up events for our Hot List (page 66), Diablo’s contributing editor
was surprised by the sheer number of East Bay happenings.
Even
so, he won’t stray far from McAfee Coliseum, home of the A’s. “Section
317 is underrated,” he says. “There’s sun and a great view. Add a dog
and a beer, and there’s nowhere I’d rather be.”
Bruce Kelley
On assignment for “Sure, Take the Kids” (page 52),
Moraga resident and San Francisco magazine editor Kelley found it hard
to see Hawaii in five days. “There was a stupendous daddy tantrum on
our biggest driving day,” he says. “The kids were doing what kids do,
but daddy felt so much pressure to see the whole island that he lost
it.”
