I’m amazed prostitution is still illegal.
Seems like this is the morality police on the move. Is it ok to secretly video naked people? Why not in dressing rooms or in bathrooms?
It’s still illegal because government hasn’t found a way to tax it yet.
State by state or county by county, they have seen fit to make illegal a business which is the oldest profession and one which will never go away.
"...Early reports from local news said that all of this was "tied to an international human-trafficking and prostitution ring," but police have offered no evidence of that so far. The whole case is reminiscent of a 2016 sting in Seattle, announced with similarly dire fanfare but yielding nothing but prostitution findings (and a lot of misery for those targeted by police).
"Law enforcement has yet to back up the serious claims their massive operation was premised on. They've also backed down from some of the more shocking assertions offered at the start—even as more media have run with the sex-slavery ring narrative. Whatever comes, it's clear this story has already developed meme-like proportions that obscure the reality of the situation. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere between dens of captive sex slaves and totally empowered and free workers, but we'll never get there by treating this as a movie-style rescue fantasy."
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More bs from the local yocals looking to forward their careers, get their faces in the media over grandiose claims of horrible things that never happened over a victimless crime which needs to be regulated and taxed rather than pushed into the shadows.
The Brits have this sussed. No public solicitation or pimping but ladies who choose to work in the profession are protected by law enforcement if they are harmed and they pay taxes for income earned.
We colonists can be so slow and backward at times.