MONEY FOR TIME AND COMPANIONSHIP ISNT ILLEGAL IS THIS TRUE?

[ziffy007]

Interesting Topic ! I don't know what happens in U.S. Only what I read here ! Interesting But it is interesting hearing . I guess bother client and provider need to take care . In London and U.K. where I am , if some one pays or took money for sexual services , no offence is committed .
( There was A Street Offences Act , designed just to prevent Solicitation on the Streets, which in years past had become a problem . More a Planning matter sex cannot be sold on the street anymore than anything else !! ) If girls tout on the street they can still today be arrested and charged , as can customers they approach a girl who just happens to be a decoy female law officer !
Sex workers in U.K. can be registered and can pay tax and National Insuramce and qualify for governmetn pension , as a legal businesses !
The only offence happens is two or more sex workers work at one address This is then classified as a " brothel " and an offence is committed . Leaving girls working working alone can of course leave them vulnerable , buy many overcome this by employing a receptionist ( often referred to as a " maid " ) who will answer the phone , make refreshments , see in and out clients . If address is raided and the matter wre to end up in a court of law , the sex worker can overcome the charge of being a brothel , by showing that the maid is of such age ( to old ) that it is most unlikely she would be " working ".
Some girls also can overcome this by working at adjacent next premises where they can look out for each other and having " panic alarm buttons .
The law is somewhat strange in U.K. as up until recent times, although selling sex for money was NOT illegal , selling a porn film portraying poeple having sex was for money wass ILLEGAL , and all porn films had to have all explicit scenes edited out , to pass the censorship rules .
The films being quite useless - very few were eversold . There is a actually national chain or porn shops in UK whose owners became extremely rich by selling shrink - wrapped videos purporting the legend " hard porn " but wre in fact of course the usual censcored versions . When the customers got home realising they had been duped they very rarely did anything anything either through sheer embarassment and also becasue buying porn was illegal . If they did return to shop they received a profuse apolology and replacement of an equally useless film - this being repeated until customer got bored or fed up !!! Quite clever if unscupulous !! ( People wanting the real porn films , bought from illegal shops who paid bribes to officails and got imported and copied tapes from USA and Europe . When the UK became part of Europe the law was changed in line with Europe and now uncensored videos and dvds are openly sold, and sales have sen explosive growth !!
So one could say , today in USA , paying people to be filmed having sex and then selling of such the film is LEGAL but , paying people just to have sex is ILLEGAL !! Strange ! A
And in UK till recently , paying people to be filmed having sex and then selling of such a film was ILLEGAL but , paying someone just to have sex was and is LEGAL ! Strange !
Strange
The only thing providers can do is to take care I suppose. On the basis of what goes around ifshe were to cause litltle or no inconvenience to neighbours or others provide a fair service at afair price adn in all othr ways be a good citizen , may be all will be well ! o.k. ? Am I being naive ! The badber ones those that rip customers off are likely to get raided , as disgruntled customers having been ripped off cannot go to the beter business bureau , ( do they still have that in US , we have trading standards ) , anyway in all probability customers will tip - off authorities anonymously . On the subject of L. E. officers . Who's to say LE officers may not visit girls as CUSTOMERS , they are human beings too !. If a girl rips - off customers and one just happended to be an off - duty L. E. officer , who would be in a better position than to make sure that girl gets to thr top of the list next time raids are being planned !!
Conversely a nice girl who has been nice to an off duty L. E. Officer , may just be " forgotten about " next time raids are being planned !!
My two cents or two pence worth is , that people should not interefere with what others do in private , ( except of course if it were ever to involve children , coerecion or force , then those people shoudl get the entire book thrown at them !! )
In U.K. not that long ago until the law was amended gays could , merely for having gay sex BY CONSENT, IN PRIVATE, have been jailed for up to 7 YEARS in U.K.
The genral population never agreed with such now descredited mad laws ,which were only made by politicians and other general busybodies !!
( Don't be put off of U.K. we are not that Dickension ! )
But , How Strange THAT ?????? :roll

[Ecstatic]

I think it shows how strange the US is, ziffy. Legal to film and distribute porn (within community standards), but illegal to pay for sex with a willing partner in the privacy of one's home, apartment, or a hotel room. We've a few such odd approaches to law in this country: when they were commonplace in the 60s and 70s, it was legal for "head shops" to sell pipes, bongs, papers, and other materials obviously used for imbibing marijuana, but illegal to sell pot in any quantity. Iirc, the US has jailed more people than any other Western nation, a huge percentage on minor drug busts (and sex busts).

Thanks for sharing the UK perspective.