Woman offers sex for two double cheeseburgers, deputies say
MANATEE — A woman was arrested in a prostitution sting on 14th Street West but not before she got two double cheeseburgers off the dollar menu at a McDonald’s restaurant.
The Bradenton Herald reports that Christine Faith Baker, 47, was walking north in the 6300 block of 14th Street West on Friday when she was approached by a detective working in the Manatee County Sheriff Office’s special investigations division, according to a Sheriff’s Office report. After the undercover detective invited Baker into his car and the talk turned to sex, she said her fee would be two double cheeseburgers from the dollar menu at McDonald’s, the report states.
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How DARE you!
There was a lady at a pool hall I go to once in a while who wanted a ride to a friends house to grab some more pills, oxy, whatever she had to have. She was offering blow job on the way over. So we were in the back playing pool chuckling at the poor schmucks she was trying to get a ride from, a few bucks got thrown together and the bartender gave it to her to take a bus.
Not every single little story out there is about the patriarchal oppression smashing down on ones head 
"hijacking yet another thread with your obsession to always play the victim..."
I believe you're conflating standing up for strong feminist ideals with an "obsession to always play the victim...".
"Drag in your obsessions to hijack the thread...."
Also I believe you're discounting a rather valid point with direct relevance to the OP simply because you either disagree with it or do not understand it
However, I do realize many people minimize and trivialize those concepts and convictions we either do not, or simply refuse to understand, and become very petulant when confronted with them... 
some posters are obsessed with the strong feminists who post on this board ... they always seem to show up in the same threads, and they delight in calling us "pious" and "prude" and "sex-negative" and they "wonder" about our psyches, and if we are jealous of "pretty" women....
you seem to have this one pegged! 
A War on the Poor.
Yay, Police State. 
Even when it's about consenting adults, some people will stay say they're not "really" consenting, because they are deluded or tricked by 'the patriarchy'; or they were abused or mistreated in their childhood (thus supposedly rendering them incapable of making any decision of their own for the rest of their lives); or they are only doing it for the money (as opposed to waitresses, who do what they do because it's their hobby) etc. Basically, a prostitute can't make her own decisions, according to these people... and then they accuse *others* of denigrating women.
Sometimes, it's like you're in the Twilight Zone.
Those girls working in that brothel I know are lucky this business is legalized in The Netherlands. They are protected by the law; they have legal rights they can claim; whenever they get in trouble, they can go to the police without fearing arrest; they work at places that have to abide by strict hygienic and safety standards; they have a right to social security when they get out of work etc. Most of these girls are working for themselves, by the way. They're not 'under contract' with the (female) brothel-owner. They pay a part of their income to the owner to use the rooms and facilities, but they're their own boss and can pack their bags and leave whenever they please.
A feminist's worst nightmare. 
Oh, I know what you mean; still thought it was funny. (I'll LOL at everything.)
I'm not romanticizing the business. For lots of girls, it IS hard. I'm not pretending human trafficking and forced prostitution ISN'T going on in Amsterdam's red light district and similar areas in The Netherlands where 'window shopping' for prostitution is the norm. I just don't see how that problem is solved by pretending it isn't there anymore.
But then again, I don't know why there's still such a thing as the 'red light district'. I mean, I don't get why a guy would want to wade through masses of other men and tourists to get to a 18 year old Polish girl who doesn't speak a word of Dutch and who will only 'serve' you for 20 minutes in a small room that's barely big enough to turn yourself around, while the noise of the drunken, yelling passers-by continue endlessly in the background.
I write elaborate replies, because I thought you actually cared about this topic. But now it has become painfully clear that you don't. If you even have trouble with a somewhat longer post; if your attention span is too short for that, that means you don't really care about the topic. The question then is: why are you here at all? Not to discuss. Just to play your broken record over and over. So stop wasting our time.
You obviously have no answer to all the arguments I made above or you would have given them. You didn't. So buh-bye now.
Now, THAT'S lol! 
That, AND your misplaced sarcasm.
You don't care about the topic, otherwise you would've made an effort to reply properly instead of stooping to childish responses like these.
Well I guess being half informed is better than not being informed at all.
You're like Sean Hannity who cuts off a tape of Obama speeching halfway through and then gets mad at what he said, leaving out everything else he said, which would have painted a whole different picture.
What I find troubling, is that I'm being seen by some in this thread as a defender of all the wrong, illegal and amoral aspects that can be a part of prostitution, just because I want to give a more nuanced, less biased view of it. With some people, it's always "either-or": either you agree with me, or you are an amoral bastard who doesn't give a damn.
The fact remains that prostitution in The Netherlands, where it has been legal since 2000, knows many forms. I think many opponents in this thread simply can't form an image of prostitution other than what they know from their own surroundings: crack addicts or impoverish (underage) girls walking the streets, getting in cars with men, having unprotected sex for maybe a lousy $50, after which they may have to give up half to their pimps. I'm against that, too; I think I made that very clear. Legalization hasn't cured all ills. There is still human trafficking, often from Eastern Europe, and coercion still exists. I acknowledged that. But still, the opponents pretend that I don't. They know I did; it just doesn't fit their agenda, because if they recognize that I acknowledged and condemned those abuses, they can't paint a black-and-white picture anymore and then they would have to really THINK about what they say, instead of giving a Pavlovian reaction and put on their broken records.
Like I said, prostitution knows many forms in The Netherlands. My estimation is that coercion and human trafficking happen mostly in what we call 'red light districts' (like the one in Amsterdam, but you'll find them in multiple big cities in my country), where girls in their lingerie are posing in front of windows to the (hoards of) men who pass by. They work in very small rooms, close to each other. They usually have a man in and out in 20 minutes for an average rate of €60, though the older ones usually charge less (they have fewer clients). Most of these girls are from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria etc. and they often speak very little to no Dutch. They often have a pimp or a so-called 'loverboy' ('boyfriends' who, at first, persuade a girl with expensive gifts and later talks her into prostitution to 'help him pay his debts') to whom they pay a large part of their share. Police and the Department of Justice says large parts (though not all) of this 'window industry' is run by people whom they suspect of being involved in criminal activities. But because this business is legal, police has a better grip on controlling what's going on and breaking up criminal networks, which would be much harder to do when these networks were forced into the illegal circuit.
Then there are the escort services and the brothels. I don't know much about escort services and the girls who work in that branch. It works like this: escort services advertise in the papers, on the internet or on tv (regular cable tv) and then people can call and 'order' a girl at home (or at a hotel room or wherever). The girls working in brothels (or 'private clubs' as they're often called) are their own boss, most of the times. They pay a part of what they make to the owner, often a woman herself, to pay for the rooms and facilities they're using. I don't know that there is any human trafficking or coercion involved here, despite claims of opponents in this thread who'll say that every prostitute is always a victim (but that's their ideology). Whenever these girls don't want to work at a certain place anymore, they pack up their stuff and go and seek a better working environment. The vast majority of these women, in my estimation, are native Dutch. Most of the times, a brothel charges a fixed rate for usage of a room (rate depends on the amount of time you want to spend there) and all girls at one brothel charge the same rate for their services, again depending on the amount of time. Some brothels allow all girls to set their own rates independent of each other. Girls decide for themselves whether or not they want to give 'extra services' and everything extra is charged separately. Like, some girls don't do oral sex without a condom; some don't do anal sex etc. Some girls include French kissing in the standard rate, others don't, still others don't want to kiss at all because they find it too intimate. That's all their own choice. Their rooms are big and a bit luxurious sometimes and they have a washbasin and/or a bath for personal hygiene. Some brothels seem to have a bar or 'lounge area' of some kind where men can socialize with a woman first, but those seem to be the more expensive clubs.
So that's a whole different thing from what most people might think of when they hear the word 'prostitution'.
Simply stated, I think two consenting adults should be allowed to do whatever they want to do. And I'm not going to be so absolutely arrogant to belittle a grown woman by telling her I know what's best for her and I know she made a wrong decision.
I hope I didn't make this "book" too long.
Imagine being forced to take therapy when you don't want any! So far for women's own choices, eh? That's all fine until they make a choice YOU don't support. Then they have to be FORCED to do something they don't want to do.
And tell me, when exactly are these women "cured" and "ready" to be a prostitute? When are YOU going to give THEM back THEIR free choice? Whenever the psychiatrist says so? Or whenever you say so?
In your authoritarian dictatorship, will women still be allowed to have non-paid sex? Or can't they do that either because they have been abused in the past? Will they be forced to undergo therapy as well? And if not, why not? Why then could a woman have meaningless sex with huge numbers of men she doesn't know, as long as she doesn't get paid for it, but she can't when she does get paid for it?
I hope you now realize how ridiculous your argument sounds, because you can't really draw the line anywhere without being arbitrarely and lead by your own personal preferences, and that you don't have any right to tell any woman how to live her own life. Oh, and that it's condescending, demeaning, patronizing and belitteling to women.
But you're doing it in the name of 'feminism', so that must make it right.
Good for you to call other women nasty names! How feminist of you! That will certainly empower them!
You go tell that woman she is a moron for making her own decisions. She could have landed a good job with her college degree, yet she decided to go into prostitution. Be a real 'feminist' and tell her she's too stupid to chose something you don't agree with.
If my posting style bothers you so much, then feel free to ignore me. Saves me the trouble of going through your incoherent and misspelled ramblings.
... and you just keep telling yourself that everybody hates sex as much as you do. Maybe if you repeat it often enough, it'll become reality.
she could buy food for the week and have dinner that night to boot. Of course, I understand jail is so much better of an option. That criminal record won't harm her future prospects one bit, or affect her ability to rent an apartment, or anything negative like that.
wait for it,
wait for it,
But thanks for playing.
They actually are well off and support their habit through their day jobs.
I don't think this is what meth looks like, but I'm no expert. Might be a newish user? Maybe just really hungry. Her occupation portion of her arrest page is blank...
I find it sickening. I find it sickening that we're jailing her for this. I find it sickening that she's going to have a criminal record for this that will affect her future employment, housing and government aid for the rest of her life. I find it sickening that there's people in this thread that think this situation is OK in any way. I find it sickening that there's people in this thread using this travesty to push an unrelated and destructive anti-sex agenda. I find it especially sickening that so many in this thread are so busy politicizing this story and bashing those who really care about sex workers (sorry, "happy hookers!!!" , that they've completely ignored that there is a fucking human being involved in it.
Yes, this is who we really are. Sickening, isn't it?
some kind of Communist?
They should just starve because you don't agree with their choice? Is that what you're saying?
Take away their income and their self-reliance because that's the 'feminist' thing to do?
I read them and found them informative!
And your post made my morning.
Everything can be used to joke about. Literally everything. Making a joke about it doesn't mean we don't think this is serious and very bad and all. We still do. But we also make a joke about it. Walking and chewing gum at the same time, does that sound familiar to you?
Better never watch shows like Bill Maher's, or Britain's Have I Got News For You, or the Dutch equivalent. They joke about EVERYTHING! They would probably joke about this incident, too. But because you're too uptight to be able to seperate a joke from real concern, they are all "sociopathic misfits"?
Wow.
Oh, and I must be one, too, because I saw some pretty good ones upthread.
More punishment for the transgressor..
