then they will all file tax returns... right???
Posted on 10/19/2017 6:19:56 PM PDT by markomalley
Advocates of legalized prostitution took their challenge to California’s 145-year-old ban on commercial sex before a federal appeals court Thursday and appeared to get a hint that they’ll have another chance to show why the law should be cast aside.
The case was brought by three former prostitutes, a would-be client and the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project. They contend the law violates the right to engage in consensual sex, as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 2003 ruling overturning criminal laws against gay sexual activity.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of Oakland rejected their argument last year, saying the high court ruling protected only intimate personal relationships, not commercial sex. He said the state had adequately justified the current law as a deterrent to violence against women, sexually transmitted diseases and human trafficking.
But at Thursday’s hearing, members of a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco suggested that the law might need closer scrutiny, given today’s less restrictive standards, as recognized by the high court, on sex between consenting adults.
“Why should it be illegal to sell something that it’s legal to give away?” asked Carlos Bea, one of the court’s most conservative judges.
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Can’t imagine why anybody in California would pay for it when most of its denizens are OK with giving it away in the middle of public streets.
The world is going to miss civilization.
Someday.
Who couldn’t see this coming?
It is blatant in Australia. Girls advertise in the local papers.
Why should politicians be the only ones allowed to prostitute themselves for money?
Well, cool!
So many there in government, media and industry are whores anyway. Might as well remove any stigma attached to being one.
And since they already decided it is a mere misdemeanor to knowingly infect people with AIDS, things are going to be great!!!
That’s because you’re not paying for the activity, you’re paying her to GO AWAY afterwards.
then they will all file tax returns... right???
You ask that about Man’s oldest institution?
When one looks from a purely legalistic point of view, it’s hard to find a compelling state interest in preventing prostitution.
Especially when one compares it to all the other deviance the courts have said the state has no interest in.
I believe the 9th, then the USSC will rule prostitution legal in all 50 states. Rather, the prohibition against, illegal.
“What man could be so desperate? What woman could have so little regard for her own well being and so little respect for herself? “
You can number them in the hundreds of millions.
Sadly, I tend to agree with you.
But I hate to see what will happen in 20 or 30 years as a result of it.
“When one looks from a purely legalistic point of view, it’s hard to find a compelling state interest in preventing prostitution.”
Public health.
They currently ban fats used to make good French fries.
“Public health.”
Then the state would have a compelling interest in outlawing adultery, homo sex, sex with aids and all form of promiscuity.
All now being legal.
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