Technology has changed the prostitution trade drastically, but nothing has effected the business like the introduction of Facebook, says Columbia sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh, in a study for Wired magazine.
Of the 290 women he followed for a year, 83 percent of the women had a Facebook page, and Venkatesh predicts that by the end of 2011 Facebook will be the leading recruitment tool over traditional escort agencies.
Read the study here.