<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Spike, I take it you’ve never seen HBO’s Cat House series about the Bunny Ranch. The announcement that a customer is here and resulting display of available “talent” to choose from isn’t that awkward. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Holland has legal brothels too. I haven’t heard the prices are lower there. Demand for sex-that-people-are-willing-to pay-for is pretty inelastic it turns out. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The sex workers have unions there I think and belong to organizations to represent their interests. The police in Amsterdam have a presence in the Red Light District, and workers are not afraid to call them or push their panic buttons if ripped off or assaulted. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">With regards to prosecuting prostitution, making prostitution illegal, like making use of some drugs illegal, has never come close to stopping consenting adults from engaging in either. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 23, 2021, at 5:05 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>>…</b>We could imagine part timers taking it up, perhaps curious amateurs, lonely singles, that sort of thing. Such a notion might give a new and literal meaning to the term “moonlighters.”… spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The imagination runs wild. You go to a house of repute (the “ill” part goes away if the activity is perfectly legal) and fill out your form explaining what you are looking for, check off the boxes. The madame (or monsieur (one wonders if the French are pissed off about our use of those terms to mean one who runs prostitution)) asks if you are good with a part-timer who has a day job. You answer “Of course, in fact that is highly preferred, for I do not wish to buy these services from someone doing this out of financial necessity.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Very well sir, one moment please. Intercom, ‘Beth, a customer awaits.’<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Your boss walks in, “Hi, I’m Beth, and I’ll be your…”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Major weirdness results, along with hilarity of the kind you might wish to exclude from your annual Christmas letter.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>