Where do you get the idea that I am in this business?
I want the ability to get a phone number of someone great looking on the Internet in case I am flying to Moscow on business the day after tomorrow. I have that ability now and I will keep it. Except there could be hassle for the few months before this law is struck down by the courts.
The hassle is in the delay and the BS involved in a stranger getting a form that says nothing, but has a lot of "no's" down it. Even guys with criminal records would be putting "no" down on these stupid forms. This law is really watered down to the point where this is just dumb. It protects nobody. It is just paperwork: government hassle.
But a law at all here is unconstitutional and infuriating to single males who don't want a Mommy state.
Of course I can just meet someone at Moscow's Olympic Swimming Pool as well. But who are YOU to mess with my rights? You're nobody. And this law is unconstitutional and pathetic. It is going down. But my trust for politicians is out the window. I didn't see this legislation coming. It was rejected last fall as legislation...but then it was snuck inside a larger bill and obviously passed as part of a backroom deal between Bush and the likes of Maria Cantwell (who then voted against filibustering Alito and will suffer for that from the far left).
I don't want my rights being used as a political football.
If you read Russian there are several Moscow-based escort services where you can get numbers for those kinds of gorgeous women. (I suspect there's more than one in English as well)
Marriage agencies are entirely different, and American based ones are the subject of federal commerce regulation, and thus federal laws preventing false advertisement and churning apply.