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Where the Johns Are

Jesse Walker | 8.1.2003 7:26 AM

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The Riverfront Times explores St. Louis' low-rent, by-the-hour hotels. Along the way, we meet a doctoral student who "hardly seems your average crack-whore enthusiast," plus "a loquacious, philosophical lawman who bears more than a passing resemblance to the comic actor Leslie Nielsen."

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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