Craig is a dirty, dirty man.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Cook County's sheriff filed a lawsuit Thursday against Craigslist, saying the popular online classifieds site not only allows the solicitation of prostitution but has actively created "the largest source of prostitution in America."

Source: Full article on ap.org

This information just aired on the local news here in the San Francisco Bay area. (I'm in the East Bay myself. *waves hi to the locals*) I'm surprised that it's the largest source of sex-selling in the country (is that actually a quantifiable statistic?) but part of me knows I shouldn't be.

Even as soon as I click on the casual encounters section of the local SF Bay Craigslist (it was founded in SF, coincidentally) I'm brought to a list of things I should know and confirm I understand before I am "allowed" to enter. Hell, they even link to their resource of information about the exploitation of minors and terms of use. Exploring their Terms of Use, the only part of their terms that has the word "sex" in it at all is section 7 (entitled "Conduct"), specifically part b which states:

[You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content...] that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual conduct including but not limited to (i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii) masturbation, or (iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person;

Hmm...

Note: None of the following links are safe for work! Well, there's this listing that definitely violates 7.b.i, this listing which voilates 7.b.iii and 7.b.v, and this one that, like the first one, violates 7.b.i. Good job monitoring this stuff, Craig!

My conclusion: there needs to be a new definition for the name Craig. Maybe someone can go on UrbanDictionary.com and define Craig as something more appropriate to the current situation. :)

To conclude this post, I found the following which has been defined as one of the all-time weirdest Craigslist ads:



I'll let you be the judge. If you think you can one-up it, please comment with a link or preferably a screencap!