10 Things I Learned By Staying In New York's Sex Hotels (PHOTOS)

We arrived armed with a camera, tripod and enough hand sanitizer to fill a heart-shaped whirlpool tub.
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We're experts on practically everything hotel-related here at Oyster, and exposing awful hotels is our forte. Recently, we went out of our way to to cover a part of the industry we hadn't dared to explore yet: the seedy world of by-the-hour sex hotels. We went undercover at three spots: The Kew Motor Inn, busted in a police sting the week after our visit for promoting prostitution; La Semana, known for its mentally unstable clientele; and The Liberty Inn, a cheesy love den with free porn and a vending machine full of lube.

Although we'd done our research ahead of time, nothing could have prepared us for what we found. We arrived armed with a camera, tripod and enough hand sanitizer to fill a heart-shaped whirlpool tub, and left with shocking photos, as well as the overwhelming desire to scrub clean our bodies -- and memories -- of all we'd experienced.

Here are the ten most note-worthy features we came across during our special investigation.

-- Rachel Jacoby, Oyster.com

10. By-The-Hour Hotels Are Unsafe.

10 Things I Learned From New York City's Sex Hotels

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