[Ost-news] Sex workers cashing in on Alberta's oil boom

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Sex workers cashing in on Alberta's oil boom  
Last Updated: Monday, April 16, 2007 | 3:30 AM MT  
CBC News

Alberta's red-hot economy appears to be fuelling a flourishing sex trade as prostitutes follow men to the oil and gas fields.

And they're making big money when they get there, the sex-trade workers say.

"Truckers are big business and they're on the road for long stretches of time and they want to have adult entertainment," says Chastity, one of the strippers frequently seen working the bars in small boomtowns such as High Level, Alta.

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