- The document discusses using web data to estimate the contribution of the sex industry to UK GDP, which was previously estimated at ยฃ5.314 billion or 0.4% of GDP based on a 2004 study.
- The author built an API to scrape data from the AdultWork sex worker directory and found that 40% of sex workers listed are men, not accounted for in prior estimates.
- Recalculating to include male sex workers increases the estimated contribution to ยฃ8.856 billion or 0.6% of UK GDP, adding ยฃ3.542 billion to the previous estimate.