The Rumpus has an interview with a john, the interviewee being a former sexworker, talking about what it's like to be a guy paying for sex. Overall, rather unshocking, except in it's candidness. Who knew that people who are lonely want to be with other people in an intimate way, sexual or not? About the 'dark side' of the world that the article encounters is the amount of troubled people involved in the sex trade...which, like the drug war, would be a lot easier to police and clean up if there wasn't blanket prohibition. The more people can sit and talk openly about such things, though, the closer life gets to something productive when it comes to sex work.