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Po_d Mainiac

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22. The real pimps in town

Mon Apr 2, 2012, 09:21 AM

Apr 2012

THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com.

This emporium for girls and women - some under age or forced into prostitution - is in turn owned by an opaque private company called Village Voice Media. Until now it has been unclear who the ultimate owners are.

That mystery is solved. The owners turn out to include private equity financiers, including Goldman Sachs with a 16 percent stake.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/kristof-financers-and-sex-trafficking.xml

And a while back there was a report about the squid owning a big chunk of Adult Friend Finder.

Can you think of a better way to get the inside track on the easiest way to blackmail someone?

All of your sex are belong to us!

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