General Reports

[ConGorilla]

Dm me the details.

I got a provider who will take a dp. Looking for a wingman. Any interest? I'll cover the fee for the girl all you have to do is show up. No gay stuff. At all.

[Gio Darazi]

This is about the 10th post looking for do where I have said yes, am hoping it isnt like the other 9 where I hear crickets...lets do this as I am definitely up for this!

DM on this.

[ScottBoxster]

I got a provider who will take a dp. Looking for a wingman. Any interest? I'll cover the fee for the girl all you have to do is show up. No gay stuff. At all.

This is about the 10th post looking for do where I have said yes, am hoping it isn’t like the other 9 where I hear crickets...let’s do this as I am definitely up for this!

[INeedAHobby]

I never try but would love to. But you got pics?

No she's a well known older Providence provider, her pics are out there.

[Style20]

I got a provider who will take a dp. Looking for a wingman. Any interest? I'll cover the fee for the girl all you have to do is show up. No gay stuff. At all.

I never try but would love to. But you got pics?

[INeedAHobby]

I got a provider who will take a dp. Looking for a wingman. Any interest? I'll cover the fee for the girl all you have to do is show up. No gay stuff. At all.

[KingOfFours]

This is why A2 doesn't allow naming names.

And this is why I will only exchange certain information by private email. Where we do indeed name names, for this sort of thing. That has a highly technical name, by the way: Contact Tracing.

[LustyB]

Odd post since back in Nov 21 post 15288.

This is why A2 doesn't allow naming names.

[MikeGeorge]

Well if finally happened, Got my very first STD after all my years of mongering, And it was from a blow job. I will not post the providers name publicly,(don't know if it's allowed).

Be safe my friends.

Can you clear your inbox? Thanks.

[LBrad52]

Well if finally happened, Got my very first STD after all my years of mongering, And it was from a blow job. I will not post the providers name publicly,(don't know if it's allowed).

Be safe my friends.

[MikeGeorge]

Check your "sent" part too.

Thanks I just did that. And deleted some of those also. Somewhere I think the sex guide should tell you your"in box" includes sent PM's.

[MarriedTom]

In the past few weeks guys have tried to PM me and they are being told my inbox is full. Each time this happens I go in and delete some PM's Today I got that same message and I went in to delete some more PM's.

I had 9 messages. I have noticed each time that it seams like the number of saved PM's is decreasing. Has anyone had this issue? And what is the limit before they concider your inbox "full".

Check your "sent" part too.

[MikeGeorge]

In the past few weeks guys have tried to PM me and they are being told my inbox is full. Each time this happens I go in and delete some PM's Today I got that same message and I went in to delete some more PM's.

I had 9 messages. I have noticed each time that it seams like the number of saved PM's is decreasing. Has anyone had this issue? And what is the limit before they concider your inbox "full".

[Newbie58]

Hey MikeGeorge, clear your PMs out.

[PSlag56]

Is it time to legalize prostitution in RI? The arguments for and against.

Katherine Gregg.

PROVIDENCE — The push has resumed at the Rhode Island State House to legalize prostitution and expunge the criminal records of those arrested and convicted in the past for engaging in "consensual commercial sexual activity. ".

It is not a new idea.

But it has been revived in a year when key lawmakers — pledging to make amends for the harm the "war on drugs" did to minorities, in particular — have united behind legislation to legalize marijuana and erase past marijuana convictions from court records.

And it is not universally supported. Women describing themselves as "survivors" of the sex trade were on opposite sides. During Tuesday night's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

The push to decriminalize sex work. Or reduce it to a civil violation. Has been championed by the ACLU of are. I. , the progressive Democrats who won legislative seats in 2020 under the banner of the Rhode Island Political Cooperative — and a legion of sex workers.

They include Bella Robinson.

Robinson wrote the Senate Judiciary Committee a letter ahead of Tuesday night's hearing on this year's decriminalization bills. It began:

"My name is Bella Robinson. I have been a criminalized sex worker for over 35 years, and I am the director of COYOTE RI," which stands for "Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics. ".

Another 70 "survivors of the sex trade" signed a letter opposing blanket decriminalization, in which they said:

"We have collectively experienced thousands of rapes, assaults, mutilations and various forms of abuse during our years in prostitution.

"We know first-hand that prostitution is not a victimless crime, because all of us have experienced significant long-term physical and psychological harm as a result of being bought, sold and rented for sex. ".

On the one hand, they said: "As survivors, not criminals, we believe that people who are trafficked and prostituted should never be arrested or criminalized but rather offered comprehensive services to be able to exit the sex trade. ".

But, "offering legal protection or a free pass to sex-buyers, pimps, and brothel-owners in Rhode Island will unleash immense harms with no benefit and meaningful safety for those exploited," they said in their letter.

"The fact that you actually think a ticket or civil infraction is sufficient to penalize buyers makes it abundantly clear that you've never had to exchange access to your body to meet your basic needs like food and shelter," Nicole Bell said of a version of the legislation that would make "commercial sexual activity" a civil violation.

Bell described herself as the founder and CEO of Living in Freedom Together (aka LIFT), and "a survivor of prostitution and sex trafficking some of which happened right here in Providence. ".

"We know that in places where there are lax prostitution laws the demand for commercial sex increases. ".

"I know that this will happen because I. Was sold for sex as a teen in your "indoor establishments. " Never once did any of the adult men buying access to brutalize my body ask if I was old enough to be doing this. Which I wasn't. , They didn't ask because they didn't care.

"Neither did my trafficker, and they never will. I am here today to ask you to care. ".

In a 2015 interview, Robinson, now 57 years old, told her own story.

She said she "entered the sex industry as a homeless 18-year-old fleeing an abusive marriage that had rescued her from the foster care system. " She said she is now "victimized by laws intended to help people like her. ".

In her written testimony on Tuesday, she said she formed COYOTE after lawmakers in 2009 closed a "loophole" that had allowed indoor prostitution.

Sex workers are unable to report violent crimes.

As a result of that action, Robinson said: "Sex workers and sex trafficking survivors are unable to report violent crimes like sex trafficking to the police without fear of being arrested for prostitution. Sex traffickers and other perpetrators know we are afraid of the police and think they can victimize us with no consequences. ".

In a survey of 63 are. I. Sex workers that COYOTE conducted in conjunction with Brown University, she said: "79% of sex workers who had tried to report a crime to police reported that they were turned away, 21% reported that they were threatened with arrest, and 6% said they were actually arrested while trying to report a crime to police. ".

As it stands, "it is a felony to rent to a prostitute. (which) means sex workers who have been outed or arrested for prostitution are often unable to access housing on our own. ".

And "employers discriminate against people with prostitution convictions, which can leave some sex workers trapped in the underground economies to support ourselves and our families. ".

Then there are the health risks.

As has been previously reported, sexual assault decreased by 30% and gonorrhea decreased by 40% during the 2003-09 period when Rhode Island inadvertently decriminalized prostitution.

In March, Robinson noted, the are. I. Department of Health reported that "gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia have all increased since RI criminalized prostitution in 2009. ".

"When prostitution is a choice it should be respected,' she told the lawmakers. "When someone does not want to do sex work anymore but is trapped in the industry because the state has placed a scarlet letter on their record, it can be traumatic. ".

The ACLU concurred.

"Every so often, local law-enforcement agencies conduct street stings of both sex workers and 'johns. '.

"By humiliating and charging 'johns' for consensual sex and by purporting to 'help' sex workers by giving them arrest records, the law's effect is only to make the lives of sex workers more difficult and dangerous. ".

'A safe haven for sex trafficking'.

There is, however, another side of the argument, one voiced by former Rep. Joanne Giannini in a commentary in The Journal on Tuesday.

Before lawmakers cracked down in 2009, she said: "Rhode Island was the only state other than Nevada where indoor prostitution was legal, which made us a safe haven for traffickers to run illegal brothels and transport minors here for sexual exploitation. ".

In the years since, she said, "more than 30 illegal massage parlors in the state closed, and advertising for sex services stopped in newspapers. ".

She contends the bills under consideration now would "open the gates for Rhode Island to again become a safe haven for sex trafficking. ".

How did indoor prostitution become legal in RI?

A bit of history: the three decades in which Rhode Island allowed indoor prostitution in massage parlors and strip clubs — and through online escorts — have been ascribed to an accident in legislative bill-drafting.

In response to resident outrage over an increase in prostitution on the West Side of Providence, lawmakers in 1980 tried to speed up the conviction process by making sex work a misdemeanor instead of a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

Then-House Speaker Matthew J. Smith co-sponsored the bill to "bring about speedier court decisions,' to get the prostitutes off the streets more quickly.

The new law omitted the ban on prostitution itself, however, effectively making it legal if it occurred indoors.

The change, lawmakers would later say, was an accident.

And it went unnoticed for decades until lawyers representing women arrested by the police in undercover stings on Asian massage parlors — including some suspected of sex trafficking — succeeded in using the loophole to exonerate their clients, to the frustration of the police and prosecutors. The market for indoor prostitution flourished.

In 2009, state lawmakers, at the urging of law-enforcement agencies, among others, closed the loophole and declared prostitution behind closed doors a crime once again.

One of the two bills up for debate on Tuesday — S2713 — is sponsored by Senators Jeanine Calkin and Cynthia Mendes, the latter of whom is running for lieutenant governor, and the other — S2716 — by Senators Tiara Mack, Kendra Anderson, Jonathon Acosta and Calkin.

Their bills would not repeal Rhode Island's separate: "Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking," which is targeted at anyone who "knowingly recruits, transports, transfers, harbors, receives, provides, obtains, isolates, maintains, or entices an individual" into prostitution.

Both bills were held for further study, but at sveral points during the televised hearing, Senators thanked the witnesses for telling their stories.