I can't believe that there hasn't been a Family Guy episode about this!

[zzyzzx]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Rhode_Island
Prostitution in Rhode Island

In Rhode Island the act of prostitution (engaging in sexual activity in exchange for money) is legal because there is no specific statute that defines it and makes it illegal. Street prostitution, however, is specifically defined and made illegal: Loitering for Indecent Purposes (Chapter 11-34-8) and Soliciting from Motor Vehicles for Indecent Purposes (Chapter 11-34-9).[1][2][3][4] Operating a brothel is also illegal (Chapter 11-34-5). Otherwise, prostitution is not regulated by the state of Rhode Island.


http://wonkette.com/367586/whaa-prostitution-is-mostly-legal-in-rhode-island
Whaa?? Prostitution Is Mostly Legal In Rhode Island

Hey Rhode Islanders, did you all know that prostitution is kinda legal in your heathen separatist state? Well thanks to Eliot Spitzer, that may not be the case anymore! According to the Providence Journal, “Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a bill that would close the loophole in this state’s laws that makes prostitution legal if it occurs indoors.” Yes, that is slightly more than a loophole. Either way, thanks for ruining more lives, Spitzer.Maybe this is why Providence is so grimy:

“A lot of people don’t realize that prostitution is legal in Rhode Island if you do it indoors,” State Police Inspector Stephen Bannon testified. In an accompanying letter, State Police Supt. Col. Brendan P. Doherty noted that under current law, “persons are free to solicit sex for money in newspapers and/or over the Internet as long as the conduct that is agreed upon takes place in private.”

So as long as you weren’t shtupping her on a bench outside RISD, things were cool. But now Eliot Spitzer is filling yet another hole where he doesn’t belong.

[deadrats]

@zzyzzx

here's the interesting thing, in most states prostituion is technically legal, primarily because there is no law against it, if you read the statutes they prohibit solicitation and/or pandering.

the courts however, especially the ones futher up the chain, such as the circuit courts and the supreme court have avoided tackling the issue of prostitution, much like they have largely avoided issuing an opinion one way or the other about pornography.

and that leads me to this famous line from george carlin: "selling is legal, ******* is legal, why is selling ******* illegal"? "of all the things you can do to a guy giving him an orgasm is hardly the worst thing in the world".

basically, if you are a guy and have a female friend and she asks you to lend her some money and you do, there's nothing illegal about that. likewise, if she just asks you for the money without a stipulation of paying you back and you give it to her, again there's nothing illegal about it. if the two of you sleep together, there is nothing illegal about it. if you lend her the money, and when the payment due date comes around she tells you she doesn't have the money but she'll sleep with you if you forgive the debt, again nothing illegal about it. then why should it be illegal if she agrees to sleep with you for money? and if we can accept that, why cam we not accept 2 consenting adult that don't know one another agreeing to exchange sex for money?

futhermore, if we do flat out say that prostitution is illegal then by logical extension porn must also be illegal, since the participants are being paid for the sex, even if it is by a third party.

personally i am not a big fan of laws against prostitution primarily because it smacks of one person trying to control what another person, in most cases a woman, can or can't do with her own body. so long as the woman isn't being forced into a sex slave trade, as long as the participants aren't retarded or drunk and incapable of giving consent, i fail to see by what right the state or anyone else can tell them that they cannot exchange money for sex.

[TooLFooL]

prostitution is illegal because they don't pay taxes.

[Conquest10]

prostitution is illegal because they don't pay taxes.

So drugs are illegal because drug dealers don't pay taxes?

NO. They don't pay taxes because its illegal.

I live in a city where the police department goes to absurd lengths to "stop" prostitution. What's worse is that those same officers are the biggest customers of prostitutes. That I have a problem with because they use their power to intimidate the women. A lot of them have even become "managers" and contract out "strippers" for parties. Its just ridiculous that they are allowed to do this.

I have no problem with what two (or three or more ) consenting adults do in the privacy of the bedroom. deadrats pretty much sums up how I feel about it.

personally i am not a big fan of laws against prostitution primarily because it smacks of one person trying to control what another person, in most cases a woman, can or can't do with her own body. so long as the woman isn't being forced into a sex slave trade, as long as the participants aren't retarded or drunk and incapable of giving consent, i fail to see by what right the state or anyone else can tell them that they cannot exchange money for sex.

[joytimeday]

prostitution is illegal because they don't pay taxes.

So drugs are illegal because drug dealers don't pay taxes?

NO. They don't pay taxes because its illegal.

I live in a city where the police department goes to absurd lengths to "stop" prostitution. What's worse is that those same officers are the biggest customers of prostitutes. That I have a problem with because they use their power to intimidate the women. A lot of them have even become "managers" and contract out "strippers" for parties. Its just ridiculous that they are allowed to do this.

Those things are illegal, they just escape from the low.

[zzyzzx]

Would certainly explain how this guy gets so many women:

[northcat_8]

If you've ever been to RI, you'd know the reason it's legal...there aren't many women there you'd want to sleep with anyway, let alone pay them for it.

[Will Hay]

I'd still have a million dollars that zzyzzx is actually baldrick.

I missed you man.