Ugh street walkers are back in Logan Circle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe OP, I was in Gallery Place at night this week for an event and I didn’t feel comfortable. It’s gotten very rough. Definitely not an after work in suits crowd. Also, there were streetwalkers in DC around the early 2000s over by what is now the city center area. Not surprising they’ve returned given city policies and the reduction in the professional folks coming in daily but mainly it’s the city policies. You can favor tent people or professionals but you’ve got to pick one.

Streetwalkers are professionals.

[Anonymous]

They used to work on K Street at night in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They used to work on K Street at night in the 90s.

I remember seeing them at Coco Sala (RIP delicious dessert and mac and cheese place) and around other places by Metro Center ish in the 2010s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My grandmother passed away 25 years ago. That's the last person I heard use the term "street walker"

It just hasn't been as common ANYWHERE in the past 25 years. Craiglist and all the online stuff really made prostitution disappear off the streets and into motels and other venues. It probably is significant that prostitution is again back out on the street. I'm not sure there's another term for prostitutes marking their wares on the street (as opposed to online, in a brothel, etc.).

[Anonymous]

They’re at the bar at the W hotel.

[Anonymous]

Bowser seems determined to become Mayor Marion Barry Bowser and return the DC government to that era. The crime rate is certainly reminding DC residents of “Barry Time.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe OP, I was in Gallery Place at night this week for an event and I didn’t feel comfortable. It’s gotten very rough. Definitely not an after work in suits crowd. Also, there were streetwalkers in DC around the early 2000s over by what is now the city center area. Not surprising they’ve returned given city policies and the reduction in the professional folks coming in daily but mainly it’s the city policies. You can favor tent people or professionals but you’ve got to pick one.

Streetwalkers are professionals.

“Ho” seems more apt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My grandmother passed away 25 years ago. That's the last person I heard use the term "street walker"

This thread literally made me miss my grandmother… who was NOT a streetwalker! but def a term she would have used.
Thanks ok!

[Anonymous]

When I started working at a law firm nearby there in 1999, there were "park view" offices and "hooker view" offices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re at the bar at the W hotel.

usually thats a different category of prostitute/john

[Anonymous]

WFH policies that have emptied out downtown after hours, coupled with inflation and a recession hitting any day now. Looking forward to 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser seems determined to become Mayor Marion Barry Bowser and return the DC government to that era. The crime rate is certainly reminding DC residents of “Barry Time.”

True dat, except even more in the pocket of real estate developers

[Anonymous]

Can they make a living? Aren’t there like 6 moms at every drop off doing sex work for $?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was common in the 90s. But given how short some dresses/shorts are now I’m not sure I’d know if someone was a prostitute. The butt cheeks hanging out along with boobs pulling out the top used to be the sign but I feel like I’m see other people wearing that now. I guess if they actually ask for money for sex, that’s the way to kmow.

The shoes give it away. F me pumps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re at the bar at the W hotel.

They are at every fancy business hotel bar.