In the Season of Giving: A Hooker Raffle

Here’s a holiday story that is sure to warm the coldest heart. On this website of Dallas call girls (Warning: adult content), an escort named Kayla has rallied her friends to put together a special raffle. As she explains in the note below, the winner of the raffle ($50 per entry, or 3 for $100) gets a session with not just Kayla but as many as 10 of her colleagues, all at once:

I love doing things for charity, I just hate not knowing that the money is actually going to where I want it to. Well it just so happens that I have a very dear family that is dire need of about $1000, about right now. If she does not make these bills by Jan. 3, her and her kids will be homeless. She is not in a position to just go make $150 an hour like most of the ladies round these parts. So here is what we are proposing….

Think on it. A chance to make a difference in an entire family’s life, and a chance to spend 2 hours (sometime in January) with all of us at once.

Judging from the comments section of the post, I have a feeling that Kayla and her friends are going to raise a lot more than $1,000.

It is interesting Kayla has the same concern about charity that so many other people have — that they aren’t comfortable that the money raised is going directly to the needy cause. I was having this discussion just yesterday with a friend who wants to start a new “microcharity” initiative, not so different from Muhammad Yunus’s microcredit efforts, designed to get small charitable donations directly to the people who need them. I think this is a hugely promising idea. Of course, the money needn’t always be raised through prostitution.

(Hat tip to a reader who, for some strange reason, wishes to remain anonymous.)