I thought that the entire sex business was really rather foolish.

The law would require all but about 20 of the city's 150 sex businesses to move or close, city officials have said.

Since 1989, sex businesses in midtown Manhattan have increased by nearly 40 percent.

Several factors are blamed for this explosion of sex businesses.

But the sex business gathered momentum again in the early 1990's.

Most child prostitutes, however, are driven into the sex business by poverty.

She said the center's workers were trying to get infected prostitutes out of the sex business or at least to use condoms.

No owners of the sex businesses spoke at the meeting.

That's had a lot to do with the decline of sex businesses.

The one concern she and the others had was whether crime was linked to the sex business.