Legal Sex For Money in RI
Although I am still a bit dubious about it, here is a reference I found online (backing up what I think PZ has been stating for a while). . .
Although soliciting sexual favors on the street is illegal in Rhode Island, authorities say a loophole in state law allows prostitution behind closed doors — including in storefronts that advertise as massage parlors and spas just blocks from City Hall.
"We don't have a law criminalizing prostitution indoors," said Providence Police Lt. Thomas Verdi, who leads the department's anti-prostitution efforts.
Police and city officials have pushed for legislation to toughen anti-prostitution laws, although some say adding more laws to punish prostitutes is unnecessary.
State law prohibits loitering for the purpose of prostitution, as well as harboring or transporting prostitutes. But the sale of sex indoors is not specifically banned.
Verdi said police have raided nearly every suspect spa and massage parlor in Providence and charged women there with prostitution, but the charges were thrown out because they are not doing anything illegal.
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this was cut-and-paste from someones blog, so I don't have the original reference. But it does sound like AMP sex and PP/CH booths are legal. Some how. If so, what I don't get is why isn't RI the sex-tourism capital of the Northeast??