Isn't soliciting sex in public prostitution?

[rodeodance]

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[bryant69]

1. What do you mean ?

I mean if you are seeking sex from a prostitute that is soliciting sex, I guess. But picking people up in a bar with no intent to exchange money at a later point in the evening is also soliciting sex.

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[rodeodance]

5. umm.. I was not thinking of the $$ part

[stirlingsliver]

2. Nope

Soliciting sex for money is soliciting prostitution.

Asking money in exchange for sex is prostitution.

[rodeodance]

4. ah, I forgot about the $$ part. Thanks

[TomInTib]

3. If you are talking about Craig, it was "disorderly conduct".

That is the broad brush the DA can use when one is acting out of line.

[lapislzi]

6. In what universe?

People solicit sex all the time in locations public and private. How about the beach? Ever pass by a construction site?

What do you suppose my chances are for a successful prosecution of an uncouth person who ogles me on the street?

Solicitation of prostitution involves the offer of sex in exchange for money or goods--or vice versa.

Not, "hey, wanna fuck?" but rather, "I'll give you $50 to fuck me." Not a very subtle difference.

[TahitiNut]

7. If people, with some regularity, were 'hit on' when using a public facility ...

... wouldn't that be regarded as 'sexual harassment'? After all, doesn't a woman (for example) have a cause of action if she encounters lascivious remarks and whistles merely using a public sidewalk past a construction site or bar or other location where such males are gathered? Apparently, the Minneapolis police benefit from some legal advice in setting up the sting. I have to wonder at anyone who'd question the legal principles ... unless, for some reason, they regard them as disproportionally anti-gay. As I've said before, I'd be displeased to receive such suggestions while I was using the crapper ... even it was my wife or girlfriend and in my own home. Maybe that's just me, but I regard time spent defecating as inviolable in that regard. Two things I just can't countenance: eating or flirting. No way.

I sure get the impression that women share this attitude ... from the various casual converstations (late evening gab fests) regarding unisex lavatories in which I've participated. The last thing I'd do is make such a suggestion to a wife or girlfriend who was 'seated' ... even under those circumstances where we felt comfortable enough to do so in the presence of the other. (Some couples just don't cross that "modesty boundary.") And that's about COUPLES .. not strangers.

[northzax]

8. No recourse, actually

Pretty much the only time there is civil recourse for sexual harassment is in the workplace.