About once a year, Evansville, IN(nearest city) runs a sting operation to bust prostitution customers. They'd plaster all the mugshots on the front page of the newspaper. A couple of years back they upped the charges to these men(and the rare woman who tried to purchase a whore) from solicitation of prostitution to human trafficking, and upped the punishments for the crime also. Bunch of bullshit of you ask me.

The attitude of people in the comments sections has changed too. Used to the prevailing attitude was "ha ha, look at these ugly, weird looking losers! No wonder they're buying sex" to "thanks officers for taking these pedophiles off the streets. Blue lives matter!"