In spite of the obvious dangers involved, the Washington Posts reports that online sex ads on Craig's List is not going away. The sexual content of craig's list has been changed from"Erotic" to "adult services" since a criminal case derived from a massage worker granting services to an online sex offender. The criminal has been caught but these women who are mostly single women with small kids, continue to advertise their services online with Craigslist.

Craigslist is saddened for having aided in the communication link that hooked up the ill-fated liason between an online sex predator and the massage worker.  Craigslist have taken major steps to prevent anymore events of atrosity. The online classified advertising company now has humans to review the adult classified for any ad that delineates from its list of rules and regulations for safety. Craigslist staffers have said that they can not police what happens if a liason is set up at a meeting place. There are safety precautions riddled over most of the site about online safety rules but the site maintains that the safety of the online sexual encounters are largely up to the women involved.

The favors are listed as roses or donations when these women offer adult services to online takers. The ads have not decreased since incidences that have caused harm to women. The Washingon Posts reports that 12% of Craigslist revenue is derived from the Adult Services site. It is unknown why Craigslist did not just take the adult ads off of the site completely.  The guess is that most classifed ads have an adult section where men and women meet. The online classified sites reports that 217,000 visitors clicked on the adult services section every 64 minutes. So it is the number of visitors that the adults sites gets that may be a reason why the sites have not been dismantled.

Research on adult or mature sexually explicit websites indicates that search engines are getting  more revenue from these sites than some of the commercial sites. The popularity of these sexual explicits websites may be another reason why Craig's List merely changed the topic of the advertising section from "erotic" to "adult services instead of eradicating these ads completely.

The Washington Post reports that women has to be extra careful when meeting takers of their sexual online advertisements because they can not get a clear picture of who they may meet and that could mean danger to them. Most of these women think that since the communication starts online that the men are different from the run of the mill men who normally seek their sexual services. On the Craigs List Adult Services website, women are now shown posed in sexy lingerie instead of the racy nude pictures that was pictured before the site began monitoring for safety. Many women however, still fail to realize the dangers of online sexual invitations in a virtual environment.