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Prostitution Poll

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Lugnuts, Mar 11, 2008.

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Which most closely matches your experience and opinion?

  1. I have used a prostitute.

    27 vote(s)
    13.4%
  2. No, but I know someone who has.

    39 vote(s)
    19.3%
  3. Haven't, but I would if I had the coin.

    9 vote(s)
    4.5%
  4. Nah.

    108 vote(s)
    53.5%
  5. Would if it became legal.

    19 vote(s)
    9.4%
  1. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    Lizavyeta! [/raskolnikov]
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    He didn't mention gerbils so, no.
     
  3. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Is it legal, or is that particular law just broken more openly in Canada than in the U.S.?
     
  4. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Re the Nevada matter: The state law is that prostitution is legal (as long as it's in a state-regulated brothel) in any county with fewer than 100,000 residents. The only county above the threshold is Clark County, which contains Las Vegas.
     
  5. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    It's illegal in Reno, too, which is why the Mustang Ranch is just on the other side of the river from Washoe County. And those legal brothels in the sticks are not nice places. Basically just houses with neon signs, and a bar and no furniture in the living room. In the town where I was, all five legal brothels were on the same cul-de-sac by the highway.

    Like Ragu at the strip club, I felt way past weird about being there the time I was. No, I did not pay for goods and services rendered. Some friends and I just wanted to go to one of them to see what it was like. The girls danced on a stage, we had a couple drinks, and the one hottie there (think Tyra Banks lookalike) disappeared into a back room with a C-note in her g-string and something about "a date with an angel."

    It is heavily regulated, with prostitutes requiring a clean bill of health via a yearly medical exam. They're all licensed by the municipality in which they work and must work out of the brothels; no walking the streets or even hanging out at the watering holes (pun unintended) and casinos to drum up business. The place where I was required all johns to wear latex condoms, too, per a sign over the bar next to all the signed one-dollar bills stapled up there.
     
  6. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    OK, I had learned about the law about 23 years ago in a college class. I guess Reno's county grew enough since then. Laughlin's county could be next.
     
  7. hooker vote up to 12.

    Interesting.

    I voted, nah, even if I was single

    Same reasoning as Ragu
     
  8. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Why can't I get this kind of response in my political polls?
     
  9. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Not the right type of screwing, I guess.
     
  10. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Not the poll I was expecting. I expected to see a simple "Should prostitution be legalized and/or regulated?" poll.

    (Answer: Yes. Our law enforcers have more important things to do. Make licensed brothels legal and regulate it like restaurants in terms of health issues.)
     
  11. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Did Mr. Garvin give him a discount because it was your birthday? ;D
     
  12. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Just a gigolo
    everywhere I go
    people know the part
    I'm playing

    Paid for every dance
    selling each romance
    every night some heart
    betraying

    There will come a day
    youth will pass away
    then what will they say
    about me

    When the end comes I know
    they'll say just a gigolo
    as life goes on
    without me

    'Cause I aint got nobody
    nobody nobody cares for me
    I'm so sad and lonely
    sad and lonely sad and lonely
    Won't some sweet mama
    come and take a chance with me
    cause I aint so bad

    Get along with me babe,
    been singin love songs
    All of the time
    Even only be, honey only, only be
    Bop bozadee bozadee bop zitty bop

    I ain't got nobody 'cept love songs in love
    Hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla boobuhla
    hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla bop

    I ain't got nobody, nobody,
    nobody cares for me
    Nobody , nobody
    I'm so sad and lonely,
    sad and lonely,
    sad and lonely,
    Won't some sweet mama come
    and take a chance with me
    cause I aint so bad

    Get along with me babe,
    been singin love songs
    All of the time
    Even only be, honey only, only be
     
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