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03-11-21 17:12 #990
Posts: 1485Probably a very slight chance
Originally Posted by Satriani [View Original Post]
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03-11-21 16:40 #989
Posts: 717Steve Chapman
Originally Posted by Satriani [View Original Post]
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03-11-21 12:08 #988
Posts: 174There's some hope
Decriminalizing prostitution: An idea whose time has come?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/colum...uie-story.html
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03-02-21 01:10 #987
Posts: 899Originally Posted by FafaFooey [View Original Post]
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03-01-21 21:26 #986
Posts: 1310Originally Posted by GeorgeStark [View Original Post]
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03-01-21 16:28 #985
Posts: 629Originally Posted by GeorgeStark [View Original Post]
RBD out.
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03-01-21 16:23 #984
Posts: 1013Yet another tragic report:
https://babylonbee.com/news/first-in...goes-unclaimed
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03-01-21 14:55 #983
Posts: 213There's a lot of grey areas on both sides of the argument.
Stings used to almost always target the women, but there was backlash, some of it well thought out, that it was just leading to a bunch of young, poor, addicted women getting saddled with fines they'd never pay and court appearances they'd never make with no effort at all to help them out of their situations. So to make enforcement sound more societally beneficial, the focus shifted to 'end the demand' and shaming men caught trying to hobby. It still didn't do anything to help the women that might want help, but at least stopped portraying them as the criminals. In the last few years, the 'trafficking' angle is almost always used, since that's pretty widely agreed on as a universal evil. But as you already mentioned, its much more likely a girl is being victimized or exploited by a local pimp or 'handler' (or even an agency from some of the posts in those threads) than a 'Law and Order' stereotyped trafficker funneling busloads of underage girls in from other countries.
On our side of things, we do need to stop projecting the image of the nice, independent girl just trying to pay her way through college onto every provider that throws up an ad, because unfortunately the truth behind the scenes is a lot of times much sadder. If we ever want to see this legalized, then both sides need to be there, both the free market and removal of criminalization, and support for low-income, addicted, or exploited girls that want help.
Originally Posted by GeorgeStark [View Original Post]
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03-01-21 11:06 #982
Posts: 209If it was me I wouldn't.
If I encountered an ongoing sting there is no way I would post it here or anywhere. Obstruction of Justice or "Interfering with a police investigation" by posting it on the internet when the police have my name would not be worth the risk.
Originally Posted by Fdottt [View Original Post]
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02-28-21 20:59 #981
Posts: 545AMPs in all types of towns
Originally Posted by Chicago41 [View Original Post]
And things change. In the 80's if you looked in the Chicago Yellow Pages under Massage, you'd see ads for Tokyo Spa and Osaka Spa, in Michigan City, IN. Nothing erotic listed for Chicago. Now Chicago is loaded.
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02-28-21 18:25 #980
Posts: 1013Originally Posted by Chicago41 [View Original Post]
But there's a lot of Puritanism or whatever you want to call it, driving the enforcement as well.
And then there's the people living whee it's happening, especially with streetwalkers. I wouldn't want that happening in front of my house. But a mile away? Sure, LOL. Of course, the people living there feel the same way.
Also, agreed on the erroneous conflation of consensual escorting with "trafficking". I think most or nearly all of us here will avoid situations involving pimps or other coercive setups. That shit is disgusting
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02-28-21 12:44 #979
Posts: 1310Originally Posted by GeorgeStark [View Original Post]
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02-28-21 01:26 #978
Posts: 1013Originally Posted by Ump1969 [View Original Post]
Persecuting and prosecuting men is, indeed, aimed at decreasing the demand. That's also some sort of "model".
Some countries have taken it a step further: it's illegal to buy sex, but not to sell it. That's also the Scandinavian model.
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02-26-21 15:06 #977
Posts: 74I was, last winter. Woman posts an ad on STG, we text back and forth. Never discussed rates, never discussed acts, everything was vanilla. I'm not an idiot. Well, I may be an idiot, but I'm no fool.
Anyway, I pull into the hotel parking lot where she said she was staying, text her that I arrived. I watch a patrol car drive by, which meant nothing yet. She tells me to pull around to the 'C' entrance. I drive around the building, there's no such thing. Then she says, "Oh yeah, I'm sorry, wrong hotel!" and directs me a half-mile down the road to the 'right' place. I get there, drive to the 'C' building, and BAM -- two patrol cars and an undercover car. Six guys, while I'm in my car still. They grill me every which way, run all my info, scare the ever-loving bejeezus out of me, and then they left.
I have NO idea why they went through the entire circus only to NOT arrest me, or indeed do anything at all. Here in PA the law says that if someone is trying to commit an illegal act, they can arrest-- you don't need to actually SAY or DO the bad things, they just need to have reasonable suspicion that you MEANT to (I. E. , responded to a post on STG). The cute part for me was how they ensured they knew who I was by following me from the first hotel to the second. But the whole thing was just a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. The undercovers said they were part of some county-wide 'human trafficking task force' or some such; but I was supposedly meeting a 38 year old woman. Who is trafficking her?
So, that was fun.
Originally Posted by Jinurso [View Original Post]
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02-26-21 14:18 #976
Posts: 675The ad had already been taken down once the sting started.
Originally Posted by Fdottt [View Original Post]