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Nice-looking girl next door
may be a Lincoln prosiiiuie
Editor's note: The names in the following story
have been fictionalized to protect the subjects'
identities.
By Ron Wylic
Do you see that nice-looking girl over there
near the dance floor? Her name's Joyce. She's a
college girl. Maybe she'd like to dance, or
perhaps it would be interesting to talk to her.
But getting acquainted could be expensive.
She's a hooker.
Joyce, 20, a UNL psychology major is paying
her way through school by working as a
prostitute.
She is one of a dozen women known to some
hotel clerks, businessmen and bartenders around
town as a call girl available on short notice. In
this group, they say, are three other students,
several housewives and divorcees and one family
team consisting of a mother and two daughters.
These women contact customers through
procurers, hotel clerks or bartenders. Failing
that, they work cocktail lounges and night spots.
Several report a healthy telephone trade,
references being made from one customer to
another.
Businessman and students
The clients, they say, are generally traveling
businessmen, college students and local
professional men. They pay from S25 to $100,
the price varying from girl to girl and service to
service.
The prostitutes report that Lincoln hotel and
motel management is either friendly or
indifferent to the trade and local law
enforcement, they say, is not a problem.
Lincoln police say there is no organized
prostitution, in the area. But, they explain, "By-
organized, we mean that there is no house of
prostitution or regular streetwalkers like in some
cities."
Vice squad detectives are familiar with the
names of some of the area's procurers and are
aware of each method of operation.
"But these guys (the procurers) are working
the girls strictly as a sideline," one detective
offered. "Their chief concern and ambition is to
sell a little coke (cocaine). When we set out to
get them, we'd much rather work up the drug
case."
Prostitution cases are hard to set up, police
contend, because in today's relaxed moral
climate, "it's hard to know who's hustling and
who is just looking for a good time."
A bartender at a place frequented by
Lincoln's hookers and their prospective clients
said, "Everyone knows you can buy it here. No
one is especially upset at this. These girls provide
a service that any city needs.
Girl next door
"Most people, and maybe the police too,
think a call girl is going to look like something
they've seen in the movies," remarked one hotel
clerk, recalling an image of a sloppy,
unwholesome bag with gin-sotted breath, bad
teeth and skintight clothing. But that is rarely
the case, say those who work with the girls.
"The best hookers," said one pimp, "have
always looked and acted like the girl next door."
One such woman is a waitress at one of
downtown Lincoln's bars. Pam, 21, lives with a
boyfriend and uses him for protection, but insists
he does not procure for her. She said she makes
her own contacts.
Continued on pg. 7
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