{"id":1083,"date":"2015-09-21T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2015-09-21T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:52:36","slug":"quts-professor-john-scott-on-the-conversation-the-rise-and-fall-of-rentboy-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/09\/21\/quts-professor-john-scott-on-the-conversation-the-rise-and-fall-of-rentboy-com\/","title":{"rendered":"QUT&#8217;s Professor John Scott on The Conversation: &#8220;The rise and fall of Rentboy.com&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/Professor-John-Scott-Approved-Media-Photo-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/Professor-John-Scott-Approved-Media-Photo-2014-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Professor John Scott - Approved Media Photo 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/Professor-John-Scott-Approved-Media-Photo-2014-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/Professor-John-Scott-Approved-Media-Photo-2014-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/Professor-John-Scott-Approved-Media-Photo-2014-439x300.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/scott26\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor John Scott<\/a> from QUT&#8217;s School of Justice has co-authored an article that was recently featured on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/au\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em>. The article discusses the recent arrest of a number of people in the US\u00a0for their use of Rentboy.com &#8212; a website used by male sex workers to advertise services and connect with clients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">With prostitution being illegal in the US (except for a few counties in Nevada), authorities claim those who use\u00a0Rentboy.com\u00a0are\u00a0engaging in unlawful activity. However, with an online existence of\u00a0almost two decades,\u00a0it is interesting that\u00a0Rentboy.com has been the recent target of such a large-scale investigation. Particularly when there are\u00a0an infinite number of sex work websites and services available in the US that continue to operate everyday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To read the full article, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-rise-and-fall-of-rentboy-com-46677\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor John Scott from QUT&#8217;s School of Justice has co-authored an article that was recently featured on The Conversation. The article discusses the recent arrest of a number of people in the US\u00a0for their use of Rentboy.com &#8212; a website used by male sex workers to advertise services and connect with clients. With prostitution being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,9696,9712],"tags":[9813,11530,9759,10245],"class_list":{"0":"post-1083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-news","8":"category-publications","9":"category-staff","10":"tag-johnscott","11":"tag-rentboy-com","12":"tag-sexwork","13":"tag-theconversation"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}