Devilling a little

Of course, that was before the media started scaring everyone with the high AIDS rate, the high murder rate, the high robbery and burglary rate, the high rape rate

which are all true, but which are all easily avoidable if you really meant to. But these all tend to scare foreign people away from prostitutes, since they cannot easily tell which prostitutes are free from all the above and which aren't.

Of course, the difference between 10 and 20, even 10 and 50, might be explained that way, but the difference between 10 and 40,000 cannot