Inn & Out at St. Louis' Budget Motels

july 31, 2003  12:53 pm
Inn & Out at St. Louis' Budget Motels
Peter hardly seems your average crack- whore enthusiast. Tall, fresh-faced and clad in shorts, shades, athletic sandals and standard-issue rayon clubbing shirt, he looks like any other weekend warrior in search of big-city fun. White and in his early thirties, he holds a master's degree from a respectable local university and is working toward his Ph.D. while living at his grandparents' house. For the past five years or so, when Peter has gone looking for action, he often finds it in north St. Louis, at down- at-the-heels motels like the Grand, where he hires women to score crack and smoke it with him, then pays them to have sex with him at $10 a throw. Join Riverfront Times staff writer Mike Seely for a tour of St. Louis's most notorious no-tell motels.