[tlb]

As it should be. What 8 or 9 concenting adults do is their own business, as long as they don't scare the horses.

[Bluntpoint]

Another success for Clinton's legal team.

It depends on what the definition of orgy is.

[MarkL]

This really does bring up an interesting question regarding prostitution. I'm NOT going to get into the morality of it. I'm talking strictly about the legalities. Although this ruling has no bearing in the US, it's quite possible that the SCOTUS ruling on "privacy" will. I've heard the comparison of prostitution and illegal drug use in terms of the "privacy" issue, but I don't think that they are comparable. In this case, I'll use "grass" as the example of illegal drugs (I just don't want to keep typing "marijuana")

The first issue is that it is illegal to grow, posses, sell, or use grass. It doesn't matter where it's done, it's still illegal, whether it's on your own private property or not. On the other hand, as we've seen now, sex between two consenting adults, in the privacy of their home has been ruled legal. Sex is not illegal between 2 consenting adults: But the crime of prostitution seems to be the exchange of something of value for sexual acts. The key is that those acts are NOT illegal, if there's no exchange. So that brings up the question, if you're on a date, and you pay for the lady's dinner, movie, or whatever, and you "get lucky," should that be illegal as prostitution? You've given her something of value, and gotten sex in return. Or how about when a husband gives his wife a valuable gift, like a diamond ring? If she "rewards" him, why is this OK, while a man who gives a prostitute the same ring, or something else of value committing a crime? It would seem that Does the fact that they're married make giving gifts to a wife OK, but to someone else that you have sex with a crime? If so, that would effectively grant the state the right of licensing and sanctioning sex between two consenting adults, which given this ruling, the state can't do.

I guess I just wanted to get some other ideas on this. It seems to me that this latest SCOTUS ruling has really opened up a pandoras box on this issue and others.

Mark

PS The reason that I bring this up is that in the Kansas City area, there's a massive crackdown going on with prostitution, and it's been in the papers and on the TV news. Two weeks ago, they made more than 100 arrests.