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NYC sex workers avoiding condoms due to fear of getting caught for prostitution
DNA ^ | March 6, 2013 | ANI

Posted on 03/10/2013 6:45:58 PM PDT by Jyotishi

New York - Carrying condoms has resulted in arrest for a growing number of women in New York.

Experts said that the issue may be contributing to a public health crisis in which sex workers are beginning to use condoms less frequently.

In an incident cited by Vice magazine, a New York woman was arrested and charged with “loitering for the purpose of prostitution” after an officer found a condom in her purse, the New York Daily News reported.

The unnamed woman was wearing jean shorts and a “tight” shirt and had been standing outdoors for about 30 minutes.

After she had a conversation with a “passing man,” an officer searched her bag, where he found a condom and 1.25 dollars and arrested her, according to the publication.

While condoms themselves are not illegal, police in many cities are allegedly using them as the basis for evidence of prostitution and arrest, a trend that public health experts say is happening more often as police continue to crack down on the time-old trade.

“Despite the fact that most prostitution cases do not go to trial, condoms are frequently vouchered and cited in criminal court complaints and supporting depositions as arrest evidence in prostitution-related cases,” the authors of a prominent 2012 study conducted by sex worker advocate the PROS Network wrote.

The study, ‘Public Health Crisis: the Impact of Using Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution in New York City,’ goes on to say that “these policies and practices may have a dangerous impact on safer sex practices in general.

Nearly half the participants in the study who were involved in the sex trade said they had not carried condoms “out of fear that it may get them in trouble with the police or lead to their arrest,” PROS sociologists wrote.

“For all too many people in the sex trade, the importance of safe sex is outweighed by the importance of avoiding police harassment, humiliation, sexual and physical abuse, and arrest, as well as the potential indirect consequences of arrest,” the study stated.

New York City itself hands out more than 30 million condoms each year at clinics, health fairs and other centers through the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the distribution is nothing short of ironic, given that some key communities are now afraid to carry them.

A New York sex worker told Human Rights Watch as part of the group’s 2012 study “Sex Workers at Risk” that she can only carry one condom because police catch her.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: condom; crime; health; prostitution; sex; std
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To: Jyotishi

Oh my goodness.


21 posted on 03/10/2013 7:05:35 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Jyotishi
No sugar for anybody....either way!!!

NEW YORK CITY WOMEN 2020...


22 posted on 03/10/2013 7:05:49 PM PDT by Dallas59 (America died a little bit more on 11/6/2012)
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To: dfwgator
Sex Workers?!?!? How about “Whores”?

Undocumented climax facilitation experts.

23 posted on 03/10/2013 7:05:59 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: dfwgator

Whores or not, what gives the police the right to search them? So she was standing on the street for 30 minutes and spoke with someone. So what? Did the police actually witness her offer sex for money? No they did not.

Even whores deserve to be presumed innocent and treated with respect due all citizens. Get a warrant if there’s probable cause she’s committing a crime.


24 posted on 03/10/2013 7:06:58 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Jyotishi
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25 posted on 03/10/2013 7:07:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: CitizenUSA

Are you saying that loitering shouldn’t be considered a crime?


26 posted on 03/10/2013 7:07:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cripplecreek

Guilty
Life
No parole


27 posted on 03/10/2013 7:08:07 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: CitizenUSA

Busting possible hos is likely way safer and easier than trying to bust Obama youts.


28 posted on 03/10/2013 7:10:50 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Jyotishi
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Mental Hygiene? Is that a euphemism for Brainwashing?
There really is such a department. I looked it up. No wonder the New Yorkers are so screwed up.

29 posted on 03/10/2013 7:10:57 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: nascarnation

“...Go-Go dancing...”

Go-Go dancing?? Goldie Hawn on “Laugh-In” was a sex worker?

Why not ballet and chorus line too?


30 posted on 03/10/2013 7:11:30 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Dallas59

Hey that’s not 72 virgins (honest, I counted(.


31 posted on 03/10/2013 7:12:00 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: cripplecreek

Is that her knee sticking out below the sign, or a sausage?


32 posted on 03/10/2013 7:12:29 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: KrisKrinkle
What about Pole dancers?
33 posted on 03/10/2013 7:12:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cripplecreek

Drone magnet.


34 posted on 03/10/2013 7:13:56 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: dfwgator

Loitering may be a crime, but what do the contents of her bag have to do with loitering? If the cops catch someone doing something illegal, do they then have the right to search everything you own? Do they also have the right to confiscate anything that may remotely be related to the crime, aka asset forfeiture. The courts say the latter is OK, but it’s clearly unconstitutional. Private property may not be taken for public use (or otherwise) without just compensation. Burden of proof should be on the government, not the citizen.


35 posted on 03/10/2013 7:13:57 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: nascarnation

Its just another lefty animal trying to keep the child prostitutes with the pimps who love and care for them.


36 posted on 03/10/2013 7:14:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: dfwgator
The world's oldest profession - or so they say. I never understood why prostitution was made illegal. Or the difference between a woman who has sex for a $100 bill or a woman that has sex after being taken to dinner and a movie. Though speaking as a man, I'd rather have the dinner and movie as a prelude as well as some pleasant conversation.
37 posted on 03/10/2013 7:20:07 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: dfwgator
Dude, get with the hip program!


38 posted on 03/10/2013 7:20:33 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: dfwgator

“What about Pole dancers?”

Well, I’ve read that if a woman really wants to dress “sexy” she should leave something to the imagination and in that regard your female Pole dancer seems to have the situation covered.


39 posted on 03/10/2013 7:25:02 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“1.25 dollars? A buck and a quarter? Grounds for search... tight pants and loitering?”

This sounds bogus.

I thought they couldn’t arrest someone for that without evidence that the person made an offer and negotiated a price.


40 posted on 03/10/2013 7:27:48 PM PDT by webstersII
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