Tag: prostitution

NYPD prostitution scandal

When ever corruption scandals breaks, I always notice two things: 1) The “blue was of silence” is more fiction than fact. Sure, cops in collusion won’t talk, at first. But that’s hardly a blue wall. I mean, given people’s natural inclination not to snitch on their friends and family, cops snitch on other cops quite…
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Guns don’t kill people…

…people with guns who can’t get laid kill people. Can somebody tell me why we won’t discuss legal prostitution in this country? “The gunmanis believed to be Elliot Rodger, 22, who in a YouTube video said he was sexually frustrated and about to go on “a mission of retribution.”” “In severalRodger referred to himself as…
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Street Meters for Street Walkers

You might think that headline is a joke, but it’s not. Good for Bonn, I say!

What about the children!?!

Anybody who hears hears crap like “200,000 to 300,000 US youth are victims of sex trafficking” and believes it needs a tune-up in the department of B.S. detection. I don’t know why people love to believe made up stats and then discount real ones that matter (eg: poverty, prison, homicide). One headline read, “HUMAN TRAFFICKING…
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Regulated Vice

Legalizing and regulated vice sure makes things easier and safer. Here’s the latest story, from the BBC, on such matters as prostitution in Amsterdam. The war on prostitution doesn’t affect society like the war on drugs does. But it’s just as crazy! Of course prostitution should be legal and regulated. Duh!

Five myths about prostitution

So says Sudhir Venkatesh in an interesting articlein the Washington Post. Here are the myths: 1. Prostitution is an alleyway business. 2. Men visit sex workers for sex. 3. Most prostitutes are addicted to drugs or were abused as children. 4. Prostitutes and police are enemies. 5. Closing Craigslist’s “adult services” section will significantly affect…
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