OT: Proposed Regs for Prostitution
Flyer78
I have enough of a libertarian streak that I would not necessarily oppose prostitution being made legal. But if it is made legal, it will most assuredly be regulated. With that in mind, I have drawn up a draft of regulations. Feedback is welcome.
1. Every person who wishes to be a prostitute must be registered with and licensed by the state Dept. of Health.
2. Doing business as a prostitute without a valid license shall be a Class 4 felony.
3. All licensed prostitutes must undergo testing for all STD's every 3 months. The prostitute shall submit the results of each test to the Dept. within 3 days. Failure to do either of these will result in the license being suspended.
4. The Dept. shall maintain an internal database of all registered prostitutes listing their full name, business name, dates of registration and licensing, the results of health inspections, and any disciplinary action.
5. The Dept. shall maintain a public, searchable database of all registered prostitutes listing everything above except for full name.
6. All licensed prostitutes shall advertise and do business under their registered business name and no other.
7. Licenses must be renewed every two years. Renewal shall not be automatic, but rather shall take into account the prostitute's compliance with the regulations. Denial of renewal can be appealed to the Head of the Dept.
1. Every person who wishes to be a prostitute must be registered with and licensed by the state Dept. of Health.
2. Doing business as a prostitute without a valid license shall be a Class 4 felony.
3. All licensed prostitutes must undergo testing for all STD's every 3 months. The prostitute shall submit the results of each test to the Dept. within 3 days. Failure to do either of these will result in the license being suspended.
4. The Dept. shall maintain an internal database of all registered prostitutes listing their full name, business name, dates of registration and licensing, the results of health inspections, and any disciplinary action.
5. The Dept. shall maintain a public, searchable database of all registered prostitutes listing everything above except for full name.
6. All licensed prostitutes shall advertise and do business under their registered business name and no other.
7. Licenses must be renewed every two years. Renewal shall not be automatic, but rather shall take into account the prostitute's compliance with the regulations. Denial of renewal can be appealed to the Head of the Dept.
38 comments
In my opinion, developing a clear, tight system of regulation in advance is the only possible way that most jurisdictions would even dare to consider legalizing it.
Also, there would be no need for pimps in a system where it's legal for a prostitute to openly advertise. As a matter of fact, we would be very likely to see something like "CraigsProstituteList."
The are what is referred to as "consenting adults".
Now the only thing that makes this illegal is if the man gives her cash money directly for IN EXCHANGE FOR performing the sex act. It's all about intent and purpose.
Now, in my view, making the act of sex between any consenting adults illegal, regardless of intent or purpose, is insane. It's okay to fuck if we want to, even if you give some chick a benefit afterwards, but it's not okay to fuck if we want to FOR THE PURPOSE of exchanging money.
It is beyond my understanding why we make such strict laws based solely on our dislike of the parties' intent, even though they are consenting. In-fucking-sane. But all over the world, for the most part, it is illegal. Strange.
In my second sentence I said "...in return for the fuck". I should have said "...before or after the fuck".
Again, the ONLY difference between regular women who meet a guy and fuck him and hookers is INTENT and PURPOSE. Why should intent and purpose have any effect on whether we're concerned that the women we fuck are clean?
Women don't want to be strippers or hookers. Only a tiny percentage of women can force themselves to do it, or have the emotional problems that will allow them to do it.
Don't worry Mikey....you won't be beating hookers away with a stick.
Yeah, I sure do want to see a lot of hookers walking down the street in short skirts and stiletto heels. Unless they're like those nasty heroin addict crackhead skanks, which I have no use for.
BTW, if you want to regulate hookers, make sure they aren't heavy drug users. No needle marks and shit like that. And they have to be hot. And the government should subsidize their hot outfits. And make them keep themselves in good shape. And free boob jobs. And tanning salons.
Make government work for the people !!! :)
I feel like existing prostitution laws and attitudes are based somewhat on what women want. They want to make it illegal for their husbands to go out and get the sex they need, but the wives may not be providing. We should approach it from a male perspective. Most guys are fine with prostitution, aside from some of the shit they've been taught by women.
So if we want it, let's make it work for us, and tell the women to fuck off.
Sure an FKK club in every American city would be nice but it ain't gonna happen.
Maybe. The counter argument is that because the act of prostitution itself is legal, there is a much easier path to *reporting* the abuses, including trafficking. The logic is that since the girl isn't doing anything illegal, she has nothing to fear from the police by reporting the problem.
Now, I'll not argue that it will take some time to overcome the reluctance the continued stigma of being a hooker to lower sufficiently to make reporting such things acceptable to the girls themselves, but honestly I wouldn't expect that to take more than a decade or so, as the older girls "age out" and younger, more accepting ones make their way in.
In addition, a law similar to Canada's that effectively outlaws pimping while allowing prostitutuon itself would make protecting the girls even easier.
One more thing government would provide: training to hookers in how to run your business and not fall for some stupid pimp. The government will be your pimp, bitch..
In general the public at large hates street walkers but doesn't care much about stuff that they don't have to see. Like I noted earlier the big issue is trafficking. There's certainly a debate if legalization or decriminalization would help or hurt there.
I hate to break it to you but it doesn't work in Amsterdam. Rampant pimping and trafficking.
I assume it works in Nevada because it's well regulated and limited in scope.
Personally I have no issue with the idea of brothels operated as businesses that maintain a relationship with a government. Outside of that it becomes murkier plus tougher to protect all the parties and the issue becomes more complex.
It's all in how you manage it. It CAN work, and has worked for many many years.
It works. It works VERY well. It's all about how you handle it.
I dunno, dude. If you say so.
But I think even the government could do a better job of pimping for the girls, huh?
I’m one for *limited* government but not *no* government – some gov is necessary (and I think the Nevada girls are actually required to get tested weekly – 3 months is too big an interval).
And I don’t think legal vs illegal is the only variable nor the main one when it comes to pimping - often times there are other factors at play – supposedly there are dancers that have pimps but IMO most don’t.
In the words of the Joker: "Why so serious, Mikey?" Relax. Take it easy.
For bareback P4P/porn production/hook-ups it would not be a bad idea if there were clinics that issued hard-to-forge certificates with your test results. The penetrate-e is more at risk and has more need to know what they're getting exposed to than the penetrate-er (unless maybe if he's not circumcised). Doubt the gub would need to run these clinics, just monitor them.
Just not enough jail space for stupid to be illegal, so just stay well away from trying.
I recommend the OP rush his proposal to his local politician and see how that goes.
Here in the US, at the federal level, prostitution is very much *legal*. It is very *illegal* at the state/county/city level except in Nevada, where it is legal in all counties that have a population level below a certain amount, and even then, it is regulated by the state.
It's amazing how many people don't know what's legal and not in terms of the federal government.
So then what happens is they get busted for unlawful prostitution. So then the authorities give them the choice of paying a double license fee and having the case erased, or of pursuing the case. Since the bust is also a permanent record, they go with the double license fee.
So my point is that these licensing rules don't work until the women get busted.
Now as far as legalization advocates, none of them endorse the Nevada model. They look at that as working for a kind of mafia.
The legalization advocates used to endorse the Netherlands model, but no more. Now they just want decriminalization. So there would be no registration or mandatory medical exams.
Does anyone know about TJ? I have heard that there is a licensing rule there, and that there are mandatory medical exams. True? Is it complied with?
I have read that many are unlicensed, especially those who are underage.
So who must be licensed? Street walkers. Escorts? That would be difficult to enforce.
How about those in the Hong Kong Bar, Adelitas, and the Tropical Bar? The same kind of license?
How about some of their other strip clubs, say not in the Zona Norte, and not so blatantly brothels, but where most of the women are regularly doing FS-ITC? Same kind of license? How to explain that outside of the Zona, where such things are technically illegal?
I think that no matter how you do licensing there will be problems.
They say Costa Rica has just decriminalization, so there is no registration and there are no mandatory medical exams. But I hear horror stories of organized crime, underage trafficking, and customers being extorted at gun point.
Everything I have ever heard about the Nevada legal houses has always been negative. Is the criticism legitimate?
SJG
Pictured in this, photographs taken by SF State Art Professor:
http://www.amazon.com/Orientalia-Sex-Asi…
Someone will always be controlling the place or venue being used. I guess the most extreme of freelancers work the street.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…
But even they depend upon hotels, and in large measure on the cops.
In SF AMPs they have zero fear of LE. So you could say that it is almost like it would be if it were decriminalized. So it is more competitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dC8MF4q…
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