If the past is any indication of the way things go, Minneapolis should be advertising for "Hosts" and Call Boys for their delegates.

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Since the beginning of time, when and where policitians gather so do prostitutes. I can't imagine why. ANNA

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I hope so. St. Paul too. But they won't.

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..free(but not really free) sex zones, where trade is conducted offsite, out of sight and mind of the media. Fence 'em off and then cover the fences so that no one knows they are there. Have them stick to a strict schedule, short enough time allotments so that everybody gets a turn. Have a heavy police presence so that now one gets out of hand...er, wait a minute, I thought we were talking about speech...we are no longer a Democracy when free speech is limited.

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Ya never know where a politician's been

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As a former male prostitute (and proud of the profession) I object to the sexist assumption in this article that all the heavy lifting is being done by the ladies! Us Boys are in there working for democracy too, y'know!

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Prostitution should be legal. Someone once commented that using attractive women in advertising--magazines, billboards, etc. (what to speak of women stripping, working in topless bars or merely posing nude!) is a subtle form of prostitution--women using their bodies for income.

Tracy Clark-Flory writes in Salon.com:

"At $25-$30 per hour, prostitutes make approximately four times what they likely would outside of the sex industry. Of course, that doesn't take into consideration on-the-job risks like contracting an STD (condoms were used in only a quarter of dealings) or being assaulted; researchers estimate that sex workers are assaulted an average of once a month. There's also the threat of being arrested, but according to the Economist, 'Prostitutes are more likely to have sex with a police officer than to be arrested by one.'"

Problems such as contracting STDs, being assaulted, pimp violence, etc. would not exist if prostitution were legal.

Prostitution was legal in ancient India for the same reason the Prohibition of alcohol failed in the United States.

Commenting on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.11.19, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami writes:

"By tricks of chance, one may be obliged to adopt a profession which is not very adorable in society...even in those days, about five thousand years ago, there were prostitutes in a city like Dwarka...This means that prostitutes are necessary citizens for the proper upkeep of society. The government opens wine shops, but this does not mean that the government encourages the drinking of wine. The idea is that there is a class of men who will drink at any cost, and it has been experienced that prohibition in great cities encouraged illicit smuggling of wine.

"Similarly, men who are not satisfied at home require such concessions...It is better that prostitutes be available in the marketplace so that the sanctity of society can be maintained."

Even some conservatives concede that prostitution can be victimless. In a 1995 column entitled "Prostitution as a Privacy Right," Robert Craig Paul, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Times, wrote:

"If a woman's right to control the use of her reproductive organs permits her to enter into a cash transaction with an abortionist, then how can this fundamental right of privacy not apply to other transactions involving her use of her body?

"...abortion has been against the law and restricted with greater intensity for more of our history than prostitution, reflecting social norms that abortion, viewed as infanticide, is more immoral than prostitution...

"In contrast (to abortion), prostitution is entirely an act between consenting parties that does not affect the bodily integrity, identity and destiny of a third party (the unborn)...

"It is legal nonsense that privacy conveys the right to abort, but not the right to ingest drugs or engage in sodomy...

"It will be interesting to watch the court sort out on the basis of Roe v. Wade why it is legal for a woman to contract for abortion but not prostitution."

Again, prostitution should be legal.

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Why not stop the hypocracy. A person owns their own body. If one wishes to make a living while providing an enjoyed service to someone that wants the service, it's no one eleses business. I'm too old to partake, but if I wanted it, butt out of others' affairs! I understand there are several several democracies where the government only insures that prostitues are permitted as long as they particapate in STD prevention and periodic medical check-ups. It is a good potential tax income provider as well.

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If anyone should have learned a lesson, it should be us - society. We should have learned that it doesn't make a person any worse of a person if he (or she) visits a prostitute. I'll be very glad when our society finally grows up and matures and learns that lesson. Other societies have learned it, it's about time we learned it.

Maybe if enough politicians seek the enjoyment of a prostitute, they might question the whole issue of making it illegal. Maybe someone would be bold enough to step up and try to make it legal.

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Behold the whores at the conventions! Most of them are delegates and lobbyists who sell themselves to the highest bidder. At least a hooker gives some satisfaction for the money.

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Even with the hypocrisy rampant (fallen man) Christianity and its edicts against sexuality in general and paid for sex in particular will still be prosecuted. Just the fact that we have the sexpol (called "vice squads") in every state, including Nevada, will continue to exist. Ever so often raids are done for publicity purposes to show that the police are supporting virtue over vice even though they may have tasered others recently to death and other abominations where they are routinely no billed goes on.

Part of the Nanny state that doesn't help us, just them. The Puritan idea of some one is doing something somewhere they don't approve of and want it stopped. Even if no one is hurt by it. All must be voluntary in this. Just as with the some drugs war is. Freedom of choice for one's self without others deciding of it is something they don't like. Backwards ideas.

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At least the entrepenuership for the two conventions fits well.....in Denver the ladies are running their own businesses and in Minneapolis the ladies are run by a pimp. Seems to me it fits the parties principles pretty well.

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There have always been prostitutes in Minneapolis and St. Paul. St. Paul even had, once, a tunnel from a men's club to a brothal. It will be a good time for prostitutes in the Twin Cities (fraternal twins), they stand to make their nut in 4 days of group stupidity. As we learned yesterday, the police will be concentrating on taking away cameras, notebooks, cell phones, etc. from journalists here to document the RNC. Warning to all: the cops are adrenalin-hyped to the skies for this event. Attendees beware.

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Has no one learned their lesson from former N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer? Seriously. [ABC News]

Was this tongue-in-cheek? This is only one more case of the rip-off of America that occurs on a daily basis in any big convention town. And this convention in particular, a conclave of boss dog and/or narcicistic politicos, greasy, sleazebag lobbyists, power junkies, and the boys from small town America out to have a good time, will re-distribute campaign dollars to working girls, the local ones and those traveling from far and wide to get a piece of the action (pun intended).

How many professional or academic conventions or conferences are held in Lincoln, Nebraska, Waco, Texas, or Hattiesburgh, Mississippi? Paid for with government money (your tax dollars) or by employers (tax deductible which means your tax dollars) these conventions and conferences are 3 parts scam, 1 part networking, and rarely anything much about why people pruportedly attend, but if they are at all, against long odds, add that in for the mathematical conclusion. It is to have a good time, often away from family and problematic neighbors. Honolulu hosts many conventions I would imagine because it is so centrally located? Same goes for Miami. Needless to say, the working girl populations of both these cities is quite high, much, much higher than, say, St. Joseph, Missouri.

That cities like these and San Francisco, New Orleans, New York, Washington, Chicago, and Boston offer an untold number of facilities for relaxation goes without saying. Better to focus the convention/conference goers on the business at hand.

Satan's Neutral Corner

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Is it disturbing that this is happening?

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