Pornography and prostitution
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The courts are not stupid. You need things to make a porn flick. Meaning, it's simply not legal to make one if you don't have the necessary permit's/legal garb necessary. And I'm sure it's more complicated then just taking a camera and setting it to record.
Now, a thread about prostitution would have done much better.
Now, a thread about prostitution would have done much better.
Permit's/legal garb would be necessary. Probably just a one-time setup like any business though. Not for each movie made. So I wonder why brothels don’t use this tactic. Maybe it doesn’t work because the johns can’t take the chance that the recording will not be erased. The camera could be at a bad angle though.
If you wish this thread to be about more than my question, my opinion is: Prostitution is illegal (in most places in the US) whereas the making of porn flicks is not (despite women getting paid to have sex in both cases) because the majority of women don’t want their husbands/boyfriends either getting laid elsewhere (threatens the relationship) or bringing home diseases. From a legal standpoint they at least tolerate porn though. I think prostitution is not a moral issue so much as a security/health issue.
If you wish this thread to be about more than my question, my opinion is: Prostitution is illegal (in most places in the US) whereas the making of porn flicks is not (despite women getting paid to have sex in both cases) because the majority of women don’t want their husbands/boyfriends either getting laid elsewhere (threatens the relationship) or bringing home diseases. From a legal standpoint they at least tolerate porn though. I think prostitution is not a moral issue so much as a security/health issue.
Well, another thing is that the operation of a brothel and of a porn studio are very different from one another, it would be blatantly obvious that one is providing the service of prostitution and the other producing the product of pornography.
With a brothel, girls are staff, and men come in as clients and pay them. With a porn studio both men and women (or hell maybe just all women or all men if that's how you go about it) are hired as staff, and they end up producing and selling a product (unlike a brothel!) and their revenue comes in from the horny perverted public (of which I am a proud member, I'm not trying to take some sort of moral high ground here
). The destinctions between the two are really fairly clear.
With a brothel, girls are staff, and men come in as clients and pay them. With a porn studio both men and women (or hell maybe just all women or all men if that's how you go about it) are hired as staff, and they end up producing and selling a product (unlike a brothel!) and their revenue comes in from the horny perverted public (of which I am a proud member, I'm not trying to take some sort of moral high ground here
). The destinctions between the two are really fairly clear.It is yet another reactionary law. Prostution leads to sexual transmitted diseases, beer/pot to violence, napster to stealing...
Basically it's trying to teach the population morals. Personally I'd rather not have the government (and politicians) responsible for that.
Basically it's trying to teach the population morals. Personally I'd rather not have the government (and politicians) responsible for that.
I like that line of thinking very much. It reminds me of a thing my brother always used to tell me when we were kids, and going to see a movie, he'd always get pissed off if the theater said we couldn't buy tickets to an R rated movie, and he'd always go on a long rant about being glad that the MPAA exists in order to dictate to us what our morals will be.
I tend to agree with you here, that the idea of making something like prostitution illegal is completely ridiculous. Yes it's VERY dangerous as far as illnesses and the like, but I guarantee you that that would be much less of a problem if it were legal through out America. What we'd have is not men soliciting sex from anonymous sleazy street walkers, but much more likely formal brothels, where the employers would likely enforce regular blood tests for their employees, and perhaps even cliental (possibly setting the grounds for a membership program, not unlike a gym. . . I think we all know how we would rather burn off those extra pounds, heh). Generally, banning something which doesn't harm the rights of another individual, and which can not be effectively enforced, all because of arbitrary moral objections, does nothing but create an inefficient business model, and ultimately a lot of pissed off people!
Hehe I like to think that this principal will be made VERY clear when I snap and start shooting people because gay marriages are outlawed, but then that's still just a pretty dream at the moment.