Prostitution is already legal! Didn't you know? (money, states, California)

[LogicIsYourFriend]

All you have to do is film the act and put the video up for sale on the internet.

People have sex with strangers for money all the time. Just film it and call it pornography, and it becomes perfectly legal in the US.

So why the double standard?

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by LogicIsYourFriend

All you have to do is film the act and put the video up for sale on the internet.

People have sex with strangers for money all the time. Just film it and call it pornography, and it becomes perfectly legal in the US.

So why the double standard?

Dunno, maybe Christians need something to watch to keep them at home.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

There's no double standard. It's explicitly legal to produce pornographic movies only in California and New Hampshire. In other states, producers have been convicted on pimping and pandering charges, and actors in adult movies have been convicted on prostitution charges.

[Memphis1979]

Yep, only in a few states.

[cuebald]

Originally Posted by LogicIsYourFriend

All you have to do is film the act and put the video up for sale on the internet.

People have sex with strangers for money all the time. Just film it and call it pornography, and it becomes perfectly legal in the US.

So why the double standard?

I thought when I opened the thread that you were going to be talking about marriage.

[getmeoutofhere]

Because the United States is a pretty puritanical country that loves to make moral decisions for everyone.

[Tymberwulf]

Originally Posted by LogicIsYourFriend

All you have to do is film the act and put the video up for sale on the internet.

People have sex with strangers for money all the time. Just film it and call it pornography, and it becomes perfectly legal in the US.

So why the double standard?

When two people make a pornographic film, the person with the camera, and those two people are all paid.

In prostitution only one person gets paid, the other is buying.

See the difference? One is a job for both sides, the other is a crime, except in certain parts of my state.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by Tymberwulf

When two people make a pornographic film, the person with the camera, and those two people are all paid.

In prostitution only one person gets paid, the other is buying.

See the difference? One is a job for both sides, the other is a crime, except in certain parts of my state.

With the above logic flow, it would seem that the person getting paid would be the person not committing the crime.

[LogicIsYourFriend]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

There's no double standard. It's explicitly legal to produce pornographic movies only in California and New Hampshire. In other states, producers have been convicted on pimping and pandering charges, and actors in adult movies have been convicted on prostitution charges.

Thanks for the clarification.

So, is (non-filmed) prostitution perfectly legal in California and New Hampshire, then?

Originally Posted by Tymberwulf

When two people make a pornographic film, the person with the camera, and those two people are all paid.

In prostitution only one person gets paid, the other is buying.

See the difference? One is a job for both sides, the other is a crime, except in certain parts of my state.

Not everyone has to get paid, do they? But, if both "actors" do get paid to have sex with strangers, then aren't they both prostituting?

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by LogicIsYourFriend

Thanks for the clarification.

So, is (non-filmed) prostitution perfectly legal in California and New Hampshire, then?

No. You seem to be confusing prostitution with producing a movie that features sexual activity. There is a legal difference. This has been well-established for decades in California.

If the producer of the movie is paying the actor to have sex with him (or her), then it could be argued that it's a case of prostitution, but since he is paying the actor to perform in a scene - usually with someone else - it's not prostitution.