To just take a broad look at the situation, sex work is still illegal in almost all of the US, which applies to both those who are sex workers and those who pay for sex workers, and most police departments actively enforce those laws. I wouldn’t say I necessarily agree with the laws, but that is what they do.
So cops can and do bust prostitution rings to get sex workers off the street, but a lot of departments also have officers pose undercover as sex workers to bust the people paying for sex in the first place. So they’ll put up, like, fake Craigslist ads selling sex and arrest people who show up, or they may even have an officer undercover at a bar or street corner pretending to be a prostitute to arrest anyone who tries to give them money. This is probably one of those situations.
Can definitely be argued as entrapment, probably going to lose in court anyways, but that’s basically how they go about it.
I really don’t understand why sex workers sell sex in places it’s illegal, rather than selling condoms at the same price then let their customers try it out for free
That is a reasonable proposition. Have you considered, however, that those are the people that make the money off it? I’m not too confident they’d do something about them until they become a competitor to an even bigger fish.
Was the cop under age?
WTF is the issue here? I thought we don’t dunk on aex work folks?
We dunk on hypocrisy
To just take a broad look at the situation, sex work is still illegal in almost all of the US, which applies to both those who are sex workers and those who pay for sex workers, and most police departments actively enforce those laws. I wouldn’t say I necessarily agree with the laws, but that is what they do.
So cops can and do bust prostitution rings to get sex workers off the street, but a lot of departments also have officers pose undercover as sex workers to bust the people paying for sex in the first place. So they’ll put up, like, fake Craigslist ads selling sex and arrest people who show up, or they may even have an officer undercover at a bar or street corner pretending to be a prostitute to arrest anyone who tries to give them money. This is probably one of those situations.
Can definitely be argued as entrapment, probably going to lose in court anyways, but that’s basically how they go about it.
I really don’t understand why sex workers sell sex in places it’s illegal, rather than selling condoms at the same price then let their customers try it out for free
Because they don’t always use condoms, and that loophole is so obvious even a vegetable could see through it.
Judges aren’t stupid.
That’s not entrapment.
For it to be entrapment they have to be coerced into doing something illegal that they wouldn’t have done otherwise.
Hypocrisy is fair game.
If we’re going to keep sex work illegal, I’d much rather they arrest the people paying for it than the workers.
I’d rather they arrest the pimps and sex traffickers who exploit women and force them into it, but that’s just me
That is a reasonable proposition. Have you considered, however, that those are the people that make the money off it? I’m not too confident they’d do something about them until they become a competitor to an even bigger fish.
Tbf that puts the johns in a position where they need to cover up their crime.
Decriminalization, ubiquitous health services and a reporting system for safety are needed.
OSHA or permanent disability should be something every worker can rely on if they are hurt.