rant · moment 11 of 21
Craigslist Hooker Calls, Rent Boys, and Amsterdam's Red Light District
from Skin Pocket · #92
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minMore riffing on calling escorts off Craigslist with impressions, a tangent on rent boys and hotel arrangements, and a story about the producer's trip to Amsterdam's red light district and window prostitutes.
- 36:01Tim describes calling Craigslist hookers back when women would answer the phone and play along with the solicitation.
- 36:59A guy called a hooker and asked her to pick up Newport cigarettes and snacks; she took the items and disappeared without providing services.
- 38:31Tim notes that most people don't have it in them to solicit sex workers, distinguishing this from his producer's newfound interest.
- 38:45The producer mentions visiting Amsterdam's red light district; Tim dismisses it as pussy shit compared to Craigslist solicitation.
- 39:16Amsterdam's red light district features women in canal-side windows displaying rates by holding up fingers—five for fifty dollars, four for forty.
- 39:40Side streets in Amsterdam's red light district are risky because you don't know what you're getting; main strip features the most attractive workers.
- 39:50The producer explains side streets might have transgender workers; Tim says he finds transgender women charming and likes them.
- 40:17Tim tells the producer he's lucky to be coming home to him after being discriminated against as a transgender woman.