[ 01-17-2003: Message edited by: Wetsart ]
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Wetsart stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
Last night while playing poker and drinking beer with friends brought up this little debate. Prostituion, the exchange for sexual favor for money, is illegal. Why isn't the porn industry illegal under prostitution laws? Since people are indeed getting sex for payment of cash.
Actors do many things that would appear to be illegal. To film a robery at a 7-11, they pull out a gun, point it at someone's head, and make demands. If a normal person did that, it wouldn't matter if the gun was a prop or not. They would get arrested.
They are being paid, not to have sex, but to act. Because it's part of the script, it's all considered "fake", just like robbing a 7-11 as part of the script is fake.
You can pay actors to do fake things on film for a movie. It doesn't matter if one of those fake things is sex, or murder, or armed robbery, as long as it's not done "for real". They're just doing their own stunts, so to speak. Hiring a hooker to give you sex, however, is paying someone to have "real" sex, and that's against the law.
And before you ask, yes. Someone has thought of the idea of having people pay to star in their own little pornos, with the other main actors provided by this "director". Dunno if that ever got shut down, but I think it did somehow.
In effect, it's a business transaction, believe it or not 
ben(at)netmastering(dot)nl
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MadCat the 2nd had this to say about Tron:
In effect, it's a business transaction, believe it or not
I don't believe it. Give us another story, but this time make it revolve around Porn Trolls and Sex Leprechauns.
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A sleep deprived Wetsart stammered:
Last night while playing poker and drinking beer with friends brought up this little debate. Prostituion, the exchange for sexual favor for money, is illegal. Why isn't the porn industry illegal under prostitution laws? Since people are indeed getting sex for payment of cash.
Who cares? It's p0rn, isn't that good enough for you? Seeing two woman, one midget, a spider monkey and a horse can ONLY equal good, clean, legal fun!!!
code:I am an idiot.
[ 01-17-2003: Message edited by: Bummey the Fool ]
