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Prostitutes Call for a Ban on GTA
d writes "Gamespot has an article about an association of prostitutes protesting the GTA games. Apparently, the sex workers of the Sex Workers Outreach Project aren't too happy about their ingame counterparts being treated violently in the GTA games. They note that the games are a bad influence on children, and might encourage rape and violent behavior towards prostitutes in real life."
Prostitution is illegal on a state-by-state basis. It is not illegal in Nevada, I'm not sure if there's anywhere else where that's the case..
They aren't calling for a ban. They think the game is a bad thing and want to discourage parents from allowing their children to play.
Ban means "to prohibit especially by legal means" (Merriam-Webster).
They're exercising a free speech right, not trying to infringe on others'.
-Dave
Nevada is the only state that has legalized Prostitution and even then only in certain counties. GOOGLE
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Prostitution isn't illegal in Nashville, either, so I guess that means it's legal in Tennessee. They do have to be licensed hookers, though.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Show me the mission in any of the GTA series that requires you to beat, kill, or otherwise be violent towards a prostitute. I've finished the storylines in all three of the PS2 versions, I wasted many an hour playing the PC version of the original, but never got a shot at GTA2.
So where's the "Kill rape and murder all the hookers" mission?
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
It would be more apt to say it's illegal everywhere except Nevada then to say it's legal if you live in any state as long as that state is Nevada.
I disagree. Given there is no federal law banning it, prostitution is a inclusively legal in the US. That is to say, if there is a territory not governed by any particular state law that bans it then prostitution is legal in that jurisdiction.
If you're a prostitute in America more than likely you are engaging in prostitution illegally.
But if you're a member of an official organization called "Sex workers of America" the chances are you're not openly breaking any law, whether you're are a porn star or a legal prostitute. Sure maybe some of those people do break laws, but that has no bearing on their right to protest something.
They're condemning the game, but not calling for a ban.
Yes, I - too - think that's scary.
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It's good to know that I'm not the only person who has thought about this idea ... aside from the making money from the conflict afterwards.
Aside from that, what kind of finishing moves do you think Jesus would have?
If you actually look at the SWOP website (http://www.swop-usa.org/ they're not calling for a ban or any kind of censorship. They're calling for people to vote with their dollars. That's a principled stand, given that they're not pro-censorship otherwise.
It being illegal, it has no child labor laws. Nor does it have worker's comp, or minimum wage.
In addition, people employed in it cannot go to the legal system for crimes committed against them, like assault.
Go find somewhere that prostitution is legal. There are no children employed in the legal industry, and almost no black market at all. It goes from something like 35%(1) of all hookers being underaged to, like, 1% or lower. (Basically, it replaces all the 'looks 20, is actually 14' girls with actual adults. The 1% pedophile market is still there. Although it's much, much harder to find, because if there's a black market, people just ask around. People do not walk into the door of legal brothels and ask where they keep 'The really young ones'.)
Using the abuse of workers in an illegal market as a reason to keep said market illegal is possibly the fucking stupidest thing anyone has ever done. There are only two ways to stop children being exploited in the sex industry. One of them is the same way we keep children out of every other industry in existence, regulation, which requires legality. The other way would be to get rid of the sex industry, which would either involve a magical spell, or a specific surgerical operation on small boys before they hit puberty...
1) Yes, it really is that high in some places. Oh, they look like adults, but looking like an adult female is not that hard for any female that is physically tall enough, with the right makeup, padding, and hair. Guys have a lot of clues that are hard to fake, but women not so much between, say, 14 and 18. (Or maybe the issue is really the age of puberty. Some guys who are 16 can often fake being 21.)
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
And the teen pregnancy rate is higher in the EU. Coincidence? I think not.
Bullshit
What's always seemed strange to me is that prostitution is illegal unless you film it.
In other words, I can pay a woman to have sex with me if she is an actor in my porn film. I just can't do it for my own private pleasure, I have to be making something for others to see. Bizarre. Ah, but you're not paying for sex. You're paying for her time as an actress. If she happens to want to have sex with you then that is in no way related to her pay for the day. If she doesn't want to have sex with you, well, she probably won't be getting much work anymore.
This is the same reason why you see ads for "Escort Services" and not for "Hookers". You're buying time, not sex.
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