According to this article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

Hookers follow workers’ dollars
Katrina labor force attracts them to N.O.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
By Trymaine Lee
For prostitutes working the streets of New Orleans, the post-flood era has sparked a boom in business, largely owing to the influx of an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 out-of-town workers away from their families with money to blow, police said.

Surprise? No. THIS is what New Orleans is REALLY famous for, but nobody in the “tourism” industry wants to talk about it. They couch in talk about picturesque architecture and jazz heritage, but by and large, the real attraction of that huge cesspool is sleaze.

Aside from real industry like shipping and manufacturing, jobs that don’t make the news, This is what New Orleans was, is, and likely will always be…