The world’s oldest profession is — perhaps ironically — the least quantitatively understood. Partly due to the culturally objectionable nature of the industry (Buddhists comprise of more than 90% of Thailand’s population), most studies focus on its qualitative, socio-economic impact. Even the number of sex workers in the country varies greatly among studies from as few as 70,000 to as many as 2 million prostitutes. Buyers and sellers seem to be operating organically without any formal market intelligence, until now at least. As with most industry, prostitution has found its way to the Internet. By web scraping data from an undisclosed online prostitution house, we created a dataset of 693 call girls from Bangkok including their price, age, physical characteristics, service repertoire, location and contacts. Here’s what we learn.
According to science and evolution, the hip-to-waist (or waist-to-hip) ratio is a significant determinant of attractiveness. A study cited 1.4 as the optimal ratio. In that regards, Ladprao-Ramkamhaeng wins hands down with Kaset-Ratchayothin, Sukhumvit and Downtown all having decent records.