Condoms as evidence

[Thai Dyed]

Not Saudi, nor Iran nor any other place you may be thinking of, but in the land of the fucking free and the home of the fucking brave hypocrites, AMERIKA.

Can You Get Arrested For Carrying Condoms?

http://www.alternet.org/story/146120/

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What have you been smoking?

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[X] Sawatdee Gay Thailand's Perpetual John School?

School for Johns. Village Voice, Tuesday, May 2005.
Arrested for soliciting sex, men wind up in a Brooklyn classroom.

In Brooklyn, first-time offenders arrested for alleged solicitation of prostitution have the option of attending "Project Respect," the Brooklyn John School, instead of going to trial. Unique in New York City, Brooklyn's John School is similar to programs in Washington, D.C.; West Palm Beach, Florida; Pittsburgh; and Buffalo. San Francisco operates the oldest and largest such program, focusing not only on johns but also on helping sex workers.

The choice is stark in Brooklyn: Show up for the class, pay the $250 tuition, stay out of trouble for six months, and charges are dismissed. Or go to court and risk up to 90 days in jail. But most men, perhaps telling their wives and girlfriends they have traffic school, show up at the district attorney's office on Jay Street to get scared straight for five hours.

New York's pimp network is well entrenched. Sex workers say that everyone knows everyone, and if you turn on your pimp, his friends might kill you. As for police catching a pimp without a prostitute's cooperation, it's nearly impossible. An undercover cop would have to convince a streetwise pimp that she's a sex worker who wants his protection. Then he'd ask her to prove it. "The protocol is, usually the pimp has sex with the girl first. An officer couldn't do that, of course," says Legal Aid veteran Kate Mullen, who counsels sexually exploited children. Only a few times in her career, she says, has she seen the pimps of the girls she defends go to jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostituti ... ted_States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_States)

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"I donтАЩt carry condoms in case of rape, I carry a Glock"
http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-03/ ... for-johns/ (http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-03/news/school-for-johns/)
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/columnis ... 11501.html (http://www.calgarysun.com/news/columnists/michael_platt/2010/02/09/12811501.html#/news/columnists/michael_platt/2010/02/09/pf-12811501.html)

"You want to get rid of pimps? Decriminalize," says Robyn Few, an activist from the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) in Berkeley. She calls john schools and similar scared-straight programs for prostitutes "shame based" and misdirected. Decriminalization is no panacea, she says, because young girls will still get tricked into the life. But at least they would be able to seek help without fear of being locked up.

The way Few sees it, prostitution is already legalтАФbut only for the middlemen. Operators of massage parlors, escort services, and topless bars are just pimps who pay taxes and get a wink and a nod from police. "Everyone in America knows what goes on in there," says Few, "and when they open a Yellow Pages and flip to [the escort section] they know what those places are." The employees of these de facto brothels have little recourse when they're ripped off or assaulted.

[Smiles]

" ... the land of the fucking free and the home of the fucking brave hypocrites, AMERIKA ... "
Oh dear.

[Beachlover]

Hehehe... these "John" classes would be a great way for the BIB in Pattaya to make money.

Strangely enough, this reminded me that some time ago apparently the presence of a condom machine in a bar in Pattaya could be used as evidence that the bar was used for prostitution. I wondered at the time just where that put the likes of Tesco-Lotus and Carrefour .....

Strangely enough, this reminded me that some time ago apparently the presence of a condom machine in a bar in Pattaya could be used as evidence that the bar was used for prostitution. I wondered at the time just where that put the likes of Tesco-Lotus and Carrefour .....

And yet the presence of (say) 30 boys on a stage in their knickers with numbers pinned on them apparently doesn't signify anything- as BBB in Boyztown has just had a police report done which concludes that there is no sign of any commercial sexual activity in those premises!

Go figure!!

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source: Andrew Drummond's blog

and yet the presence of (say) 30 boys on a stage in their knickers with numbers pinned on them doesn't signify anything-
[X] Everything's just fine. It's not prostitution.

The Entertainment Act distinguishes between those types of employees, who are required to wear red circular disks with their numbers, and non-sexual service staff, who are required to wear blue circular disks with their numbers. http://www.thailawforum.com/sex-crimes- ... rt2-2.html (http://www.thailawforum.com/sex-crimes-in-thailand-part2-2.html)



Just remember that тАж prostitution is actually illegal.
[X] Only some forms of prostitution are punishable in Thailand: http://www.thailawonline.com/laws-of-th ... -2539-1996 (http://www.thailawonline.com/laws-of-thailand/prevention-and-suppression-of-prostitution-act-b-e-2539-1996)