Have you ever chatted with a prostitute?

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The book I am working on (with @Just4Him as project manager ) is about working with (sometimes) difficult kids from (often) difficult environments. My work in Oakland CA led me to be on San Pablo Avenue, taking a smoke break, now and again. San Pablo is not THAT rough of a street, but there are prostitutes there, and those prostitutes would sometimes stop and ask me if I "wanted a date." I would usually laugh and say something like "No ma'am. I am working too." Some interesting conversations would sometimes ensue. One time, I was pulled over by Highway Patrol in West Oakland. He thought a white dude in a pick-up truck must be looking for a prostitute. I have written about that incident in my book (and here, I think). My book is going to be a bit "edgier" than most child psychology books, because I have worked in some rough environments. Even some of the children I have worked with had some serous potty mouths, and called me unusual names, due to the environments in which they grew up. Unrelated to my book, or my work, is the time I scared the hell out of a prostitute in a motel parking lot in Nevada. I startled her as she getting out of her car .I was smoking a cig in the shadows next to my truck. She screamed (not loudy) and I said "I'm not a criminal! I'm just taking a smoke break before bed!" she breathed a sigh of relief and we wound up smoking a cig together and talking about our jobs. She was a "high end" call girl, and taught me some interesting stuff about being part of an "escort service" in the American South (where she was from).. The "girls" were even allowed to choose the demographics of the people they'd "date"! I'll attach a clip of "life in Oakland" that I came upon as I was trolling the internet this morning. It is from East Oakland, which is a bit more dangerous than where I used to work. An interesting part of the clip is the contact between the "locals" and the Asian immigrants, who often wind up (at least for awhile) up in such neighborhoods when they move here. I hope you find it interesting. Would you read a developmental psychology book that was a bit "edgy"? I don't think I go "over the top," but do try and accurately portray the environment(s) in which I was working for several years.