Listen, this is all very funny and cool. However, does anyone find it weird to think that our tax dollars are paying a police officer to dress up in lingerie and post ads for sex on the internet in hopes of luring people in for arrest?
Wouldn’t this money be better spent providing housing, food, and social support to women actually in the business of selling themselves?
Sadly, consenting adults who avail and provide prostitution are unnecessarily criminalized. He’s a gross hypocrite, but he’s not gross for wanting sex. He’s also not gross for trying to pay for sex with (what he thought) was a consenting adult. Religions need to do away with celibacy stuff, it’s all nonsense anyways
What surprises me the most is that he actually got fired over it. Most of the time, these types just start shouting about how everyone is a sinner, how sorry they are (for getting found out, but they leave that part out), and how Jesus himself appeared in a dream to redeem their soul. Then they end up keeping their old positions, where they continue to not show the same mercy to people they hate.
That link contradicts what the poster said because virtually all of them were either resigned or were fired. Some it’s not clear what happened to their position, but I don’t see a single one of them that “kept their job.” I also don’t see a single one saying everyone is sinners, most either just appeared to disappear, died, or tried to blame someone for framing them.
What’s in that link are much shorter versions of what actually happened. Like Jimmy Swaggart had multiple prostitution scandals, got suspended for 2 years, came back and did the same thing again.
To just take a broad look at the situation, sex work is still illegal in almost all of the US, which applies to both those who are sex workers and those who pay for sex workers, and most police departments actively enforce those laws. I wouldn’t say I necessarily agree with the laws, but that is what they do.
So cops can and do bust prostitution rings to get sex workers off the street, but a lot of departments also have officers pose undercover as sex workers to bust the people paying for sex in the first place. So they’ll put up, like, fake Craigslist ads selling sex and arrest people who show up, or they may even have an officer undercover at a bar or street corner pretending to be a prostitute to arrest anyone who tries to give them money. This is probably one of those situations.
Can definitely be argued as entrapment, probably going to lose in court anyways, but that’s basically how they go about it.
I really don’t understand why sex workers sell sex in places it’s illegal, rather than selling condoms at the same price then let their customers try it out for free