we are going to take a time out with the hate fest
everyone in their corners
lets move on to something more lively, enjoyable
like porn
Oregon supreme court has decided that live sex acts are protected under the free speech clause of the constitution
as long as they do not involve two people
then it's prostitution or intent to solicit
which is to say, a girl can masturbate on stage, but not perform an act with someone else
I question the logic of this
mostly because it seems most of those scenarios involve several people...IE the audience
does this mean that you are allowed to pay a lady to masturbate and it ISN'T prostitution?
the law is a fascinating semantic tool
I guess I just don't understand how anyone wandering into a strip club for entertainment would be shocked and offended by two girls touching each other
but then, I'm naive
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I'm sure no legal scholar, but .perhaps the intent of Oregon's Supreme Court was to limit the level of exploitation of sex workers? I know I'd feel better about masturbating in front of a crowd for money than having sex and exposing myself to all kinds of fluids. Then again, it's probably like the time I thought England's 11pm pub closing law had to do with letting the poor bartenders be done with work at a reasonable hour...later I learned it was a morality/ no drunk people thing.
yeah, my first thought was also that it was a way to protect the workers. kinda like the no-smoking in bars rule. Does OR have that yet? I can't remember.
yeah, when I posted the "protect the workers" thing, I realized that it's not an industry where things aren't done exactly that way.
re: employee benefits - I can imagine that workers comp and health benefits would be high for such a (potentially) physically demanding job, and great for the employees. It seems like this industry is continually harmed by the hype surrounding it. I can imagine, for instance, that NIOSH isn't heading into clubs to make sure that the noise level isn't too high or that other working conditions are being met.
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