The School For Johns

July, 1996

sex ed, san francisco styleI arrive at the San Francisco Police Academy at 8:30 A.M. on a stormy Saturday. The classroom is filled with 30 men. It's the most unlikely of fraternities. The guys sit solemnly--utterly still, morbidly quiet, trying to avoid eye contact with one another. It's as if they want to escape the emasculating shame of having paid for sex--and having been stupid enough to get caught by the cops.These men were all arrested by female vice officers posing as hookers. Because the...