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Are the suburbs seeing more prostitution?
By Kristin McAllister

The world’s oldest profession is starting to find a new home in suburbia, thanks to popular classified advertising Web sites, most notably, Craigslist, law officials say.

“The Internet and sites like Craigslist certainly are changing things,” said Capt. Chris Anderson of the Troy Police Department, where in early August, police arrested a couple for running a home-based prostitution business advertised on Craigslist.

“The cases we see usually, almost exclusively, are to support a drug habit,” he said.

Anderson said the increase in Internet use for prostitution has prompted the department to change operations to now include continuous monitoring of online activity in Troy.

Other communities are seeing cases of prostitution from women posting to Craigslist, backpage and social networking sites, including Kettering, where Montgomery County Organized Crime Unit officers in March arrested two women who posted on Craigslist erotic services, and in Miamisburg, where Dayton police detectives in May arrested a woman at the Red Roof Inn after contacting and meeting her following her posting to the site.

Both communities, however, are not reporting a rise in the number of prostitution arrests.