New Jersey Professor Allegedly Ran Prostitution Website

[AntZ]

New Jersey Professor Allegedly Ran Prostitution Website

Published June 21, 2011 | Associated Press



A New Jersey college professor has been arrested in New Mexico and accused of operating a prostitution website.

David Flory teaches physics at Fairleigh Dickinson University's campus in Teaneck, N.J.

On Sunday, police arrested the New York City resident in Albuquerque, N.M., on 40 counts of promoting prostitution. Police say Flory owns a vacation home in Santa Fe.

Albuquerque Police Lt. William Roseman told The Record newspaper Flory's website, Southwest Companions, was designed to give users access to more women once they gained Flory's trust.

Roseman says Flory told police he didn't make money off of the website and saw it as a hobby.

A Fairleigh Dickinson University spokeswoman says the school was saddened by the arrest, but did not say if the professor has been suspended from his job.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

was designed to give users access to more women once they gained Flory's trust.


Sounds like this site :twisted:

[Arkady Renko]

tenure isn't what it used to be anymore so I guess it's only natural for professors to try and create second incomes

[DemonGeminiX]

There's gotta be a physics joke in here somewhere... something to do with Kepler's laws maybe?

:-k

[Hal-9000]

"Roseman says Flory told police he didn't make money off of the website and saw it as a hobby."

:lol: r'ly.....just like my underground non prescription drug sales company

[Deepsepia]

There's actually no evidence that he profited from this. This appears to have been a "hobby" site . . . there are a lot of them, and the insinuation that writing about something is somehow the same as doing it is really dangerous.

His "crime", so far as anyone has said, is to run a website where prostitutes and guys who patronize them chat about their experiences. I can point to hundreds of sites where folks talk about illegal experiences, comparing, for example, different strains of marijuana. What part of talking about something like that is or should be illegal?

Although Craigslist no longer has "adult" ads, all the alternative weeklies do, and you can find them all on backpage.com, haven't seen anyone prosecuting these guys for running these websites.

In fact, there's an incredibly buzzy web startup called "Whatsyourprice.com" where guys pay attractive girls who are looking for "sugardaddy/sugarbaby relationships" for dates.

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