Valuable Use Of Police Time And Resources

[youngmafbog]

or simply to appease a zealot in the constabulary ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-seek-to-ban-condoms-from-saunas-in-edinburgh-8898421.html

Doesn't seem to be the sort of think high up on the Police forces agenda.

Apart from the fact the 'oldest profession' is unlikely to ever be stopped and so should be legalized so we can move to put a stop to trafficking and abuse of minors, this simply seems to put people at risk.

[sp1814]

'sex workers'

Love that phrase.

"And I see on your CV that you spent time in Edinburgh as a sex worker. Can you elaborate".

"Yes, I was in overall charge of S&M, French polishing and hand shandies".

[rockyracoon]

I think it should be legalised and to stop them using johnnies is unbelievable.

Sp, 'hand shandies' *Chortlesplutters*, I say that and no one knows what I'm talking about.

[douglas9401]

Your man Sir Stephen 'Steve' House (of ill repute?) has a bug up his ass about sex in 'saunas'. There may be something in his past that drives his compulsion, who can say.
Meantime, while raiding knocking shops and protecting the public at large from a damned good shagging, sundry organised crime gangs go about their various business enterprises unremarked upon.
Makes a change from parking and speeding we suppose.
Messrs MacAskill and Salmond need to let the man know who he's working for and get him to rethink his targets.

[FredPuli43]

Don't follow. If it's a brothel, it's illegal, whatever the licence says. Condoms are only part of the evidence and only used ones would be probative, and that not much

[FredPuli43]

Brothels can be places of exploitation, particularly of immigrants, so stopping them can be of importance, but the law still needs changing. One girl working alone, even with a maid taking a cut and 'looking after her', commits no crime. Two girls working in the same premises, present together, and not working in shifts so that only one is present at any one time, make it a brothel.

[andy-hughes]

Our prurient laws about prostitution are a joke, with serious consequences.

The constant 'morality' argument that prevents legalisation of brothels continues to allow trafficking and the spread of AIDS which, in a civilised society, is utterly repugnant.

As a society, we do not have a choice about whether or not we have prostitution, we only have a choice about how we manage it.

The sooner the moral majority embrace the fact that people's safety and the curtailment of STD's is more important than whether their antimacassars are in a robble, the sooner we can move forward towards a safer society, with less impact on the police and NHS resources.

YMB and I have been at direct odds many many times here on the AB, but in this, we are in complete agreement.

[Peter Pedant]

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is the Big Idea - no condoms will prevent sex of any kind ?

perhaps it will grow on me (overnight)

[ludwig]

I've never really understood what business is it of the state whether consenting adult A says to consenting adult B 'If you give me £50 I'll have sex with you'.