Estimating demand for illicit massage businesses in Houston, Texas
Estimating demand for illicit massage businesses in Houston, Texas
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估计德克萨斯州休斯顿非法按摩业务的需求
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2018
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通讯作者：
Sean M. Crotty
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V. Bouché;Sean M. Crotty
摘要美国各地的非法按摩业越来越多，尽管对公共卫生和刑事司法有影响，但它们仍然是地下商业性经济中一个未被充分研究的利基市场。这项研究填补了我们对非法按摩业务的理解的经验空白，估计了美国德克萨斯州休斯顿市对这些业务的实际需求。我们发现，休斯顿每天大约有2,869名顾客从事非法按摩业务，这产生了1.07亿美元的年总收入。
ABSTRACT Illicit massage businesses are growing in number across the United States, yet they remain an understudied niche of the underground commercial sex economy despite implications for public health and criminal justice. This research fills an empirical gap in our understanding of illicit massage businesses by estimating actual demand for these businesses in one U.S. city, Houston, TX. We find that there are roughly 2,869 customers per day at illicit massage business in Houston, and that this yields total annual gross revenues of $107 million.