Ladies of the night

Certainly this isn't limited to Gainesville, and I hope I'm not out of line in saying this, but we seem to have an awful lot of hookers in this town. And, if they aren't in fact hookers, then it seems that we have an awful lot of scantily-clad, presumptuous women who walk all over town. In areas where there are no sidewalks. Often, but not only, at night. Coming back from lunch yesterday afternoon, we noticed a woman who looked remarkably like Tina Turner (circa 1980) dancing and shaking her... assets while she signaled at oncoming vehicles. Now, in fairness, she may not have been a hooker. She may just have needed a ride somewhere. Or not. So what gives? What's with all the prostitution in this town?