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Escorts: Utah law makes acting sexy illegal
By JOSH LOFTIN
The Associated Press
First published May 20 2011 11:47PM
Updated May 21, 2011 06:38PM
Two escort services have filed a federal lawsuit to halt a Utah solicitation law they fear could lead to the arrest of strippers or escorts who are simply acting sexy.
Utah defines solicitation as a person agreeing to sex in exchange for money. A new law that went into effect this month broadened the definition to include any person who indicates through lewd acts, such as exposing or touching themselves, that they intend to exchange sex for money.
It was intended to help law enforcement agents working undercover in prostitution stings, Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said Friday.
He said it would protect officers who were being asked by prostitutes to expose or touch themselves to prove they're not police because making such requests as a precursor to offering sex for money is illegal under the new law.
“Officers were being put in a position that we're not going to allow, so we took a different direction,†Burbank said.
Andrew McCullough, an attorney representing the escort services in the lawsuit filed May 9, said the law is so broad that it could allow police to arrest licensed employees of sexually oriented businesses, such as escort services or strip club dancers, for doing their job.
The expanded law includes language that makes a person exposing their genitals or touching themselves sexually an indication that they are offering sex. Those acts are legal in Utah for private strippers.
“Most girls who touch their breasts are not telling you they're open for sex,†the attorney said.
By JOSH LOFTIN
The Associated Press
First published May 20 2011 11:47PM
Updated May 21, 2011 06:38PM
Two escort services have filed a federal lawsuit to halt a Utah solicitation law they fear could lead to the arrest of strippers or escorts who are simply acting sexy.
Utah defines solicitation as a person agreeing to sex in exchange for money. A new law that went into effect this month broadened the definition to include any person who indicates through lewd acts, such as exposing or touching themselves, that they intend to exchange sex for money.
It was intended to help law enforcement agents working undercover in prostitution stings, Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said Friday.
He said it would protect officers who were being asked by prostitutes to expose or touch themselves to prove they're not police because making such requests as a precursor to offering sex for money is illegal under the new law.
“Officers were being put in a position that we're not going to allow, so we took a different direction,†Burbank said.
Andrew McCullough, an attorney representing the escort services in the lawsuit filed May 9, said the law is so broad that it could allow police to arrest licensed employees of sexually oriented businesses, such as escort services or strip club dancers, for doing their job.
The expanded law includes language that makes a person exposing their genitals or touching themselves sexually an indication that they are offering sex. Those acts are legal in Utah for private strippers.
“Most girls who touch their breasts are not telling you they're open for sex,†the attorney said.
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With today's nanny-state you will eventually have only two choices: Arrainged marriage with someone you have never met and have no interest in or walkng up to a total stanger and asking her for sex not strings from either party. With the marriage you end up paying for mediocre pussy (at best) then no pussy ( dry knot hole after the kid she wanted to tie you for support) for the rest of your life.
At least with paying up front she leaves afterwards. I have never seen the logic in prostitution laws other than a way to control women (pimping should be illegal not prostitution). Men pay for sex one way or the other! Either up front in an honest transaction or trapped into paying one woman draining the life's work and life out of you until you cannot wait to die to cut her off.
In a way Mormons and Strip Clubbers have a thing in common - we both rotate multiple girls except we lease it vs buy.