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Never mind the use of taxpayer dollars, the potential threat to national security, the embarrassment brought to the USA government. In one regard, at least,"Hookergate" was a good thing, at least to sex workers in the United States: It called attention to the plight of sex workers here, where prostitutions is illegal and practitioners have no rights.
"If it had happened here, the woman couldn't have gone to the police and said, 'These guys are trying to cheat me out of money. ' Instead, she would have been hurt and cheated, and Mr. Agent Man would have gone home and patted himself on the back for having gotten one over on her," said Maggie McNeill, a former New Orleans call girl and the founder of The Honest Courtesan.
Last week. 11 Secret Service agents were recalled to the USA from Cartagena, Colombia, where they had been on assignment to help protect President Obama at the Summit of the Americas. They were placed on administrative leave after allegedly bringing prostitutes back to the Hotel Caribe, and their security clearance was later revoked. Ten USA military personnel are also being investigated for their role in the affair.
Interestingly, hiring a prostitute (and related adultery issues) was never specifically outlawed in the military until 2006, when the Bush administration made changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Today, it's banned even if prostitution is legal in the country. Military personnel who patronize prostitutes can receive up to a year in jail, get a dishonorable discharge, and lose all pay and allowances.
McNeill and others say the policy is ridiculous, and that criminalizing prostitution is not only a human rights violation, but also a safety and labor issue. Now is a perfect time to call attention to the plight of sex workers—which includes prostitutes, escorts, as well as adult film models and actors—in the USA, where prostitution is illegal except in some pockets of Nevada. The repercussions of underground sex businesses can be dangerous, if not deadly.
"We've found in New York that when sex workers are criminalized, they are afraid to go to police when they are victims of crime, including theft, rape and human trafficking," said Sienna Baskin, co-director of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York, which advocates for sex workers and survivors of human trafficking.
"They are also subject to bad policing practices and police brutality," added Baskin, who recently returned from a day of lobbying in New York's state capital, Albany, to pass Bill A1008 / S323, which would prohibit police and prosecutors from citing possession of condoms as evidence of prostitution.
Not only are Americans outraged by the use of taxpayer dollars in connection with Secret Service extracurricular activities, but there is concern that the agents, most of whom are married, violated their top-secret security clearances by boasting to the women about their affiliation with the president and that sensitive information could be passed to terrorists or drug cartel leaders.
But while they acknowledge the potential dangers to national security, sex workers in the United States think the "breach" argument is another form of discrimination against prostitutes."If the issue is attracting attention or bragging about being in the security detail, then it would be a problem if they brought in any outsider," said McNeill."If that's the case, then what difference does it make if she's a prostitute or an accountant?"
According to The New York Times, the incident was brought to light after one of the women failed to depart the hotel at 7 a. M, a policy for non-registered guests staying over. Hotel staff and police searched for her; they found her quarreling with an agent over her fee. She reportedly said they had agreed on an $800, but that the agent only offered her $30.
"I tell him, 'Baby, my cash money, '" the woman told the Times.
Colombian police officers argued on her behalf, while American officials tried to quell the situation. She was finally given $225, and left. But since the situation involved a foreign national, the police notified the Secret Service and USA Department of State.
Sex worker advocates say she was lucky to have gotten police support. And Norma Jean Almodovar, a retired prostitute and the founder of International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education, a non-profit organization, doubts the women in Colombia wanted the story to get out.
"Why would we want our clients to be arrested? They provide our living, they pay our rent," she said."Part of what we get paid for is discretion."
Nor are they at all surprised that the situation occurred in the first place."My friends and I have certainly seen our share of law enforcement officers and politicians," said Leigh."If they fired or arrested every man in government who ever saw a prostitute, there would not be anyone left to run it."
Indeed, politicians from both sides of the political aisle have gotten in trouble for sex scandals: In 2008, then New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer quit after his involvement with prostitutes went public. The previous year, Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias resigned after it was confirmed that he frequented a Washington, D. C, escort service.
Almodovar looks at it this way."On a scale of 1 to 10, if murder is the worst thing you can do to your fellow human, giving them an orgasm has to be one of the best things, unless one believes that giving or receiving sexual pleasure is a bad thing. Which I do not," she said."Why are so many people terrified of sex and sexual pleasure? I do not understand that at all."
[url]http://www.cnbc.com/id/26869953[/url]
Interesting, too much so when it comes on late just before you want to go to sleep. Can pick it up from Hulu and other places I'm sure. Too brief on facts but it also refutes claim that sex trafficking is the issue in the oldest profession that many, including our local saviors of our souls, want to profess. Looks more like a gloss piece, than hard news, and the section on the one hour GFE part of the business was so brief you would miss it if you blink. It will never replace Andy Griffith reruns but not bad and good for discussion points
This, as the "news excuse" for the sniggering juvenile sexuality behind such coverage, just kills me. Secret Service agents are paid by the government. That means everything they ever spend money on is "at taxpayer expense"? And every time a sailor hires a hooker?
There are two hundred members of the Indiana General Assembly, and who knows how many aides and clerical workers, all paid for by the taxpayers of this state. How much time was spent "crafting" that "enhancement" of child sex trafficking laws? It netted-supposedly-one charge, based on the say so of two 19-year-olds who'd been popped on Class A misdemeanor soliciting charges. (I do hope the state found them good foster homes.) The distinction is that instead of being charged with felony procurement, under the existing law, he could be charged with felony child-procurement, because the women told police they were under 16 when they started. Anybody think that's going to be pursued at trial? In front of a jury?
How many police man hours went into that, and how much energy was spent trying to turn an arrest into a child-sex headline, to justify all the attention paid to what was already clearly recognized as an urban myth? How much did we pay the Prosecutor and the top brass to attend seminars conducted by national anti-sex crusaders? And that's not officials spending their income on off-duty pursuits; that's what we received for our money.
We never ask the cost of being a nation of perpetual adolescents about sex.
Maybe we will have a real discussion here, and I knew that one line would draw you out of the weeds old friend. Oh, and thanks for asking the girls are doing great, safely esconced in ilapps home for wayward, but of legal age, youths. Amazing the things the state will fund isn't it?
Seriously though, the claims made about trafficking can be counter-claimed by more reliable fact and less emotion, as you have noted before, but it makes so little fodder if you are a socially conservative public servant seeking election / re-election at some point. Wait, if they are public servants, does that not mean we the public have just engaged in trafficking of some sort, one more reason to look over our shoulder, eh? Obviously a simple answer would never work, it doesn't generate enough chaos around itself to make it profitable to those in charge, irregardless of the currency they are looking for, but there has to be a better solution no matter how convoluted it winds up. Unfortunately I doubt even that unsatisfactory result will happen in my lifetime.
[url]http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/bands-and-pop-singers-join-fight-against-backpage-com-ads/[/url]
More than a dozen prominent pop singers and rock bands have joined a campaign aimed at forcing The Village Voice to stop running ads on Backpage. Com for escorts, strip-clubs and other 'adult services, ' a publicist for the campaign said. The list of bands who have signed a petition against the ads includes the former members of R. E. M and the members of the Roots, Alabama Shakes, the Civil Wars and Drive-By Truckers. Among the singers who have lent their support are Alicia Keys, Rosanne Cash and Talib Kweli.
Village Voice Media, whose 13 weeklies include The Village Voice, Westword and Phoenix New Times, has been under fire for eight months for continuing to run the ads, which critics say lead to the exploitation of minors. Last August the country's 51 attorneys general sent a letter demanding that the company close down the adults section on its Backpage. Com, much of it related to the sex trade.
A coalition of about 600 religious leaders have also gone after the company. The group was organized by Groundswell, an interfaith social justice group sponsored by the Auburn Seminary in New York, which ran a full page ad in The New York Times last year that was signed by clergy from all faiths and cited the arrests of adults who had sold minors for sex using Backpage. Com. 'It is a basic fact of the moral universe that girls and boys should not be sold for sex, ' the ad said.
Since then, a petition against the site started on the Web site Change. Org has gathered 225, 000 signatures, and several national brands, among them AT&T and American Airlines, have dropped advertising in the media company's publications.
The musicians who are joining the fray have begun using their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts to generate support for the campaign. Mike Mills, the former bassist for R. E. M, said in a statement that the fact that musicians who admire the Voice's coverage of popular music are complaining 'should send a clear message to the company that it needs to take action to ensure no child is sexually exploited through use of its site. '
The principals of Village Voice Media – Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey – have said the company spends millions to reject ads that feature minors and has worked with law enforcement officials and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to make sure the 'adult' section only includes adults
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/world/americas/colombian-escort-speaks-about-secret-service-scandal.html?_r=3[/url]
[url]http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/secret-service-prostitution/[/url]
Just legalize it already. It would stop soooo many problems!
[URL] http://therandomfact.com/report-estimates-that-pornography-accounts-for-30-of-global-internet-traffic/2211147/ [/URL]
And there's considerably more time spent there than at other sites:
[URL] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites [/URL]
I used to point out to people that the only way you hear sex covered on the news is Disease, Death, Violence and Revenge. You never hear a guy say "I was going to kill my boss, but I got laid last night and now I feel great." There's an unspoken and un-voted-upon agreement that "seriousness" is reserved for whatever makes money or kills people. If a van Gogh or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's collection sells for a record price, it might get blurbed by Brian Williams. A wildly erotic four-hour threesome, or a page-view record on a porn site? No. (Okay, so it's not news. Did anyone defend the Secret Service and military personnel on the grounds that "it was harmless fun, and sex is good for you"? Not in the mass-market media.)
I don't blame anyone for being concerned about exploitation. I wish we all would be; realistically, I hope that most of us wouldn't condone exploitation of a child or an adult. But, again, if you're really concerned about child exploitation then your primary focus should be on agribusiness, not BP.
[URL]http://www.salon.com/2012/05/13/an_uneasy_backpage_alliance/singleton/[/URL]
Read the comments.
I need to find another source like BP because I know is a matter of time that BP will follow their demands.
[QUOTE=Best Swimmer; 1437304][url]http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/bands-and-pop-singers-join-fight-against-backpage-com-ads/[/url]
More than a dozen prominent pop singers and rock bands have joined a campaign aimed at forcing The Village Voice to stop running ads on Backpage. Com for escorts, strip-clubs and other 'adult services, ' a publicist for the campaign said. The list of bands who have signed a petition against the ads includes the former members of R. E. M and the members of the Roots, Alabama Shakes, the Civil Wars and Drive-By Truckers. Among the singers who have lent their support are Alicia Keys, Rosanne Cash and Talib Kweli.
Village Voice Media, whose 13 weeklies include The Village Voice, Westword and Phoenix New Times, has been under fire for eight months for continuing to run the ads, which critics say lead to the exploitation of minors. Last August the country's 51 attorneys general sent a letter demanding that the company close down the adults section on its Backpage. Com, much of it related to the sex trade.
A coalition of about 600 religious leaders have also gone after the company. The group was organized by Groundswell, an interfaith social justice group sponsored by the Auburn Seminary in New York, which ran a full page ad in The New York Times last year that was signed by clergy from all faiths and cited the arrests of adults who had sold minors for sex using Backpage. Com. 'It is a basic fact of the moral universe that girls and boys should not be sold for sex, ' the ad said.
Since then, a petition against the site started on the Web site Change. Org has gathered 225, 000 signatures, and several national brands, among them AT&T and American Airlines, have dropped advertising in the media company's publications.
The musicians who are joining the fray have begun using their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts to generate support for the campaign. Mike Mills, the former bassist for R. E. M, said in a statement that the fact that musicians who admire the Voice's coverage of popular music are complaining 'should send a clear message to the company that it needs to take action to ensure no child is sexually exploited through use of its site. '
The principals of Village Voice Media – Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey – have said the company spends millions to reject ads that feature minors and has worked with law enforcement officials and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to make sure the 'adult' section only includes adults[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Davidonecall;1447205]I need to find another source like BP because I know is a matter of time that BP will follow their demands.[/QUOTE]I agree about BP!
I'm still on a site in Florida that's UTR, you have to be invited in. NO, I don't use the name of it. Then you get verified by someone that's already been verified. Indiana needs one like it. It's very safe! Even if a hobbyist is verified but is an asshole, he gets kicked out. If a provider is verified but gives bad service. She gets kicked out. So nobody has to worry about anything, providers OR hobbyist! It's set up very good with forums for Uncle LEO / Legal 411, News & Announcements, Introductions & Welcome, Safety & Security, Sexuality, Health & Sensual Wellness, Field Work Where hobbyist talk about new provider that may want to join,
Resources, Recommendations Here & Abroad, Providers Ads and a LOT more. I'm able to set up a basic website but nothing like what I'm talking about. A puter geek is needed. It would be nice if someone here could do it or know someone.
One of the best things about it is nothing inside the site will come up on Google. A lot of UTR providers are on there because of that.
There's a local automotive site that operates exactly the same way. By invitation only, vouched for by existing members, vetted to some degree, be an ass and you're gone, talk about things on that site to someone not on it and you're gone, etc. The existence of the site is known, what's on it generally isn't. It's really not that hard to setup something like a UBB bulletinboard like this one, there just has to be a way to foot the bill for the site and bandwidth, and someone has to be willing to basically donate the time to admin it. If there is no public access then Google et al can't crawl it.
I would definitely contribute to the cause in terms of financial support and technical guidance (I've ran a big web site before). However, I definitely don't have the time to admin something like that at this point.
[QUOTE=TheDistance; 1447508]There's a local automotive site that operates exactly the same way. By invitation only, vouched for by existing members, vetted to some degree, be an ass and you're gone, talk about things on that site to someone not on it and you're gone, etc. The existence of the site is known, what's on it generally isn't. It's really not that hard to setup something like a UBB bulletinboard like this one, there just has to be a way to foot the bill for the site and bandwidth, and someone has to be willing to basically donate the time to admin it. If there is no public access then Google et al can't crawl it.
I would definitely contribute to the cause in terms of financial support and technical guidance (I've ran a big web site before). However, I definitely don't have the time to admin something like that at this point.[/QUOTE]Providers give the owner free service 1 time and the hobbyist donate $ per year. So it's worth it to the owner. A few long time members help, keep an eye on it and it has 4 or 5 moderators. Hell, this last year even a fund was set up to help a provider if she was busted.
For legal defense. And there are several lawyers on it but of course they want to trade the provider for services.
[url]http://stdcarriers.com/crime/hiv-prostitution-2.aspx[/url]
[URL]http://www.indystar.com/article/D2/20120524/NEWS/305240073/Nationwide-sex-trafficking-ring-uncovered-Iowa-used-Backpage-com-ads?odyssey=obinsite [/URL]
[QUOTE]Nationwide sex trafficking ring uncovered in Iowa; used Backpage. Com ads.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A nationwide sex trafficking ring run by a violent pimp and his associates used Backpage. Com to solicit customers for prostitutes as young as age 17, advertising the women as "smokin' hot babes," according to a federal indictment recently unsealed in Iowa.
A 50-page indictment alleges a New Jersey man used coercion and violence to force women between 17 and 21 to act as his sex workers between November 2009 and June 2011, when investigators broke up the ring during a sting operation at a hotel in Omaha.
[His alleged assistant] has been released on a $5, 000 bond, and is scheduled to make an initial appearance in Council Bluffs, Iowa next week. Her attorney did not immediately return a phone message.
The two are charged in Iowa because Des Moines was a site where the ring did business on at least four occasions, sometimes holing up in an Econo Lodge near Interstate 35, the indictment says.[/QUOTE]So:
"Nationwide" sex ring based in Little Rock is brought down by single bust in Omaha. Ringleader brought to Iowa to face four trafficking charges. Presumably because Iowa law makes it easier to get a conviction.
No Federal trafficking charges. Looks like they really tapped the Mother Lode on this one; maybe they brought in the Ghost of Elliot Ness. Note the emphasis on the girl "as young as" 17. Meaning she was over the age of consent in Arkansas (as well as Iowa, and Nebraska).
Personally, I have no truck with traffickers, or anyone too young to know what she was doing; if I suspected someone I saw was being coerced I'd leave, after trying to convince her to seek help. But like the vast majority of hobbyists that's not my experience. The women I've met were independent adults who entered into our agreements willingly. Some may've done so under economic duress; if the citizens of Iowa would like to take the lead in combatting that evil I'll be right behind them.
But no one's going to convince me that whoever took that stenography was innocent or gullible or stupid enough to believe it. This is part of a very well-financed (and tax-free) Get BP effort.
[url]http://michaelbluejay.com/police/arrest.html[/url]
[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/craigslist-prostitution-ads-resurface-in-some-places-study-says.html[/url]
While not in the USA, there's some good info for providers here. A lot of providers read this site, just don't post here.
[url]http://www.saafe.info/index.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Best Swimmer;1457809][url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/craigslist-prostitution-ads-resurface-in-some-places-study-says.html[/url][/QUOTE]First, in an industry where even someone caught red-handed is described as an "alleged" perpetrator of an "alleged" crime, here suspect ads-categorized, never described or quoted-are simplly announced as involving prostitution, by fiat of the writer. (This isn't accidental or sloppy; there aren't any editors at Bloomberg who don't know precisely what they can or can't get away with without risk of being sued. They-or the AIM Group LLC, whose report the story was based on-could have quoted suspicious ads directly, but then they would have lost the ability to say "Prostitute" and get away with it.)
Second, the AIM Group, LLC, is a market research operation that serves the online classified ad industry. Certainly a potential for conflict of interest, especially when the charges made are generic and inflammatory, not factual. (I'm still looking for the original report. It may be behind a paywall).
And while Bloomberg might not view Craigslist as competition, it sure does the New York Times, which owns About. Com. About was quoted in the article as saying escort ads were from third-party vendors, and not their own; twenty minutes after the story broke it announced it was pulling the ads.
Just a reminder: we're talking about protected speech, not criminal activity. Maybe Bloomberg and AIM are simply reporting the news. And maybe not. But the people behind this are engaged in nothing short of strong-arm tactics and taxpayer-funded extortion.
[URL]http://aimgroup.com/clients/2010/05/14/craigslist-adult-ads-work-too-well-womens-funding-network/[/URL]
[QUOTE]For the Georgia study ads were placed on Craigslist and other sites where men typically look for adolescent prostitutes. As a result of covertly questioning the men, study participants found that 47 percent of them still wanted to continue with the transaction after three warnings that the girls were under age.[/QUOTE]I'd like to announce the results of my recent study of phony adolescent prostitution ads placed in Georgia: 100% of the researchers believed whatever I told them, so long as it corresponded to their own agenda.
I admit I was educated in a previous century, but we used to called studies designed this way "pieces of equine dung". Today I believe the accepted term is "Money".
[QUOTE=B Beall; 1459037][URL]http://aimgroup.com/clients/2010/05/14/craigslist-adult-ads-work-too-well-womens-funding-network/[/URL]
I'd like to announce the results of my recent study of phony adolescent prostitution ads placed in Georgia: 100% of the researchers believed whatever I told them, so long as it corresponded to their own agenda.
I admit I was educated in a previous century, but we used to called studies designed this way "pieces of equine dung". Today I believe the accepted term is "Money".[/QUOTE]"For the Georgia study [B]ads were placed[/B] On Craigslist and other sites [B]where men typically look for adolescent prostitutes[/B]. As a result of covertly questioning the men, [B]study participants found that 47 percent[/B] Of them [B]still wanted to continue with the transaction after three warnings that the girls were under age[/B]."
Okay, I'm confused. If you put ads up in places where people look for something in particular (I. E. Under age prostitutes) , don't you think they're still going to want to buy it, even when told what it is? I mean if I went to a Toyota dealership looking for a Toyota, don't you think I'd still want to buy one, even after being warned that it's a Toyota? Just seems a bit self-satisfying to me. (And not the kind of self-satisfying you're thinking about.) Seriously, these researchers should stand on a street corner with a bag of coke, and warn everyone that tries to buy from them that it's illegal. They'd probably find more than 47% would still want to "continue with the transaction."
[quote=frey guy; 1459873. ]
okay, i'm confused. if you put ads up in places where people look for something in particular (i. e. under age prostitutes) , don't you think they're still going to want to buy it, even when told what it is?[/quote]here's the study.
[url]http://afuturenotapast.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/the-schapiro-group-georgia-demand-study.pdf[/url]
there's no suggestion the thing has been published by, or submitted to, peer-reviewed journals, and it appears to've been conducted by a marketing research group. the methodology is complete bunkum; it wouldn't survive five minutes' review. just for starters, they have no idea who the respondents are, or whether any of the answers they received were true, or what percentage, if any, were actually serious about contacting an escort. more to the point, they never offered anyone a date with an **** girl. but they draw "scientific" conclusions from this.
i know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but i remind you that this is how esdotcom got raided, it's why cl ended escort ads, and it's how they're hounding bp now. it's the same source as the great international **** rolling brothel which was coming to indy for the super bowl. this is where your right to free speech disappears down the anti-sex agenda, supported by legal brute force.
they ran ads in various venues which pictured quote unquote young girls, accompanied by text suggestive of that age group. they specifically avoided explicitly ****d pictures or text *because that would get the ads yanked* which should be the end of the story.
instead there's a clearly intentional confusion of "child" "adolescent" and "under 18". when men called the operator-actually the "highly-trained interviewer"-they were pumped, you should pardon the expression, for demographic information, then, at the end of the call, the operator would say about the girl pictured in the ad:
1) we're talking about the really young girl, right?
2) she doesn't look like she's 18.
3) i don't believe this girl is actually 18, and i have no reason to believe she is.
that's the point at which they claim 42% of respondents wanted to go ahead anyway. proof of widespread child sex slavery. (the fact that 9% of the calls came from the airport area was proof that atlanta was an international child sex ring tourist spot, or something.)
now, let's forget, to begin with, that any hobbyist in his right mind who heard a booker talking like that would smell a leo-sized rat. and never mind that nobody's committed any illegal acts here. only 6% of the men expressed a preference for "adolescents", undefined by age-this is after they'd seen a picture of the not child or early teen in the ad-and none of them, presumably, was being offered sexual acts in exchange for money, just the standard companionship. none was looking for an actual child to prey upon, at least not according to the methodology. furthermore, the age of consent in georgia is 16, not 18; unless there's something written into the atlanta solicitation code (that's where the study was done; they then extrapolate from the largest metro area in the state to the entire male population) soliciting sex with a 16 year old is no more illegal than sex with a 20, or 30, or 40 year old. perhaps these groups should be fighting that. but of course they won't. they're not opposed to child bride economic slavery, just so long as the church is involved.
this was specifically designed to generate the sort of results they got, which are worthless scientifically, but valuable politically. what these people are up to should be at least a big a story as the non-existent results from indiana's big super bowl child sex crackdown.
Thanks for the post. An interesting read.
[url]http://www.omaha.com/article/20120531/NEWS97/709049960[/url]
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/gold-plated-vibrator-stolen_n_1564686.html?ir=Crime&ref=topbar[/url]
[url]http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/02/12028468-cops-couples-wrong-number-call-to-officer-leads-to-prostitution-arrests?lite[/url]
[quote=best swimmer;1462165][url]http://www.omaha.com/article/20120531/news97/709049960[/url][/quote]the taxpayers of omaha got off cheap. i'd spent over 5 grand before the girls would introduce me to mr. big.
for that matter, how much did the citizens of indianapolis spend-or the state of indiana spend on that carefully crafted anti-trafficking legislation-in order to nab two **** 19-year-olds?
But isn't there a good punch line in there somewhere?
[url]http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/19270755/spoelstra-death-of-chris-boshs-masseuse-an-absolute-tragedy[/url]
[quote=b beall; 1462673]the taxpayers of omaha got off cheap. i'd spent over 5 grand before the girls would introduce me to mr. big.
for that matter, how much did the citizens of indianapolis spend-or the state of indiana spend on that carefully crafted anti-trafficking legislation-in order to nab two **** 19-year-olds?[/quote]i'd like to have that job.
Saw this online as I was looking for an earlier report I saw this morning. 15 y/o and yet the control others into sex slaves. And they initiated it all by meeting on FB or something else just like it.
[url]http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/crime/2012/06/11/dnt-teen-girls-charged-with-sex-trafficking.cbc[/url]
The Feds teamed up with locals to do this raid just like they did in KC 5 or 6 years ago.
[url]http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2012/06/11/cfp-gutierrez-asian-sex-slave.cnn#/video/international/2012/06/11/cfp-gutierrez-asian-sex-slave.cnn[/url]
Be safe and play smart
A new study with old results.
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In Akron, Ohio a panhandler is drawing a lot of attention.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anxgdi9XsBY&feature=youtu.be[/url]
[url]http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/Man-with-world-s-biggest-penis-stopped-by-3715000.php#ixzz21114M8um[/url]
[url]http://postwhoreamerica.com/the-problem-with-the-other-problem-with-sex-trafficking/[/url]
[QUOTE=Best Swimmer;1498160][url]http://postwhoreamerica.com/the-problem-with-the-other-problem-with-sex-trafficking/[/url][/QUOTE]I like Melissa Gira Grant, and I've added her to my bookmarks.
People here ought to understand that the battle over BP advertising is their fight. Just as we all should be demanding to know where the thousand-count indictment against edotcom is after almost two years. It's important that everyone understand that this campaign is not a genuine concern over the plight of abused children, and not even an argument over freedom of the Press, but an anti-sex crusade that seeks to make all commercial sex interactions more dangerous, and more subject to the capriciousness and corruption of local officials and the bigotry of Bronze Age superstitionists.
On the other hand: I may live in a glorified cornfield, but from my perspective it's not anti-sex feminists, moveon. Org, or REM who are advancing this agenda and bankrolling its propaganda machine. It wasn't the all-powerful Marxist lobby that wrote Indiana's Poorly Written and Just in Time for the Super Bowl sex trafficking law addendum. It wasn't Che Guevara who spoke to the brass from IMPD and the Indianapolis Prosecutor's Office. It's anti-sex religious organizations, evangelical and Roman Catholic, who are pushing their anti-human strictures (which apply to everyone else, not themselves, and especially not their own clergy) using their tax-exempt licensed begging expertise. We need to make sure that the voice of sanity is heard. But, with all due respect to Ms Grant, the people lining up to protest in front of the Village Voice offices are not the people who are pushing the agenda here, where the laws, and the Law, is becoming more aggressive all the time.
[url]http://cnsnews.com/news/article/un-commission-calls-legalizing-prostitution-worldwide[/url]
Can't be happy more if UN could make it. Brazil is legal, so easy to control HIV. Indy IMPD won't short manpower this year. Pimp could be kick out this industry. Rate could be lower due to market supply. Win-win game.
[QUOTE=Best Swimmer;1504509][url]http://cnsnews.com/news/article/un-commission-calls-legalizing-prostitution-worldwide[/url][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Eric41;1504792]Can't be happy more if UN could make it. Brazil is legal, so easy to control HIV. Indy IMPD won't short manpower this year. Pimp could be kick out this industry. Rate could be lower due to market supply. Win-win game.[/QUOTE]I don't think it will pass. I just think it would be great if it did. Canada is legal also
Providers in Canada can not legally do incalls but some do anyway. Nor can they solicit on the streets or in casinos but they do that also. Out call is the only legal activity in Canada. By law they must come to the client.