High-priced prostitutes have been surrounded with false glamour by a recent wave of radio, television and newspaper publicity. Lately the silence has been broken and she has been brought into public view. Sociologists and psychiatrists have published detailed accounts of her motivation and attitudes.
Congressional committeemen, editorial writers and police officials have commented on her activities and suggested ways of suppressing them.
Her current notoriety seems to refute a conviction police and most social scientists had long held, that prostitution was declining.
It also confirms an observation by Dr. Kinsey in his book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, that "the percentage of males in each social level frequenting prostitutes is almost the same as it was in former years. There is even evidence that the call girl has been hired by business concerns to help them sell goods to reluctant buyers.
A recent continued on page Murrow on the CBS network, startled radio listeners and made newspaper headlines. It also prompted the question: What is the situation in Canada? While nobody knows exactly how many call girls are plying their trade in Canada. I had no difficulty in meeting a dozen of them in Toronto. Judging from their conversation, scores of others are active in. Montreal has an estimated five hundred call girls.
