Buying Sex in Texas Is Now a Felony

The scene here isn't strong enough to risk jail time.

I'll keep my mongering to NYC when I visit there.

St Maarten in the Caribbean (Dutch territory) has great girl clubs at great prices compared to average US rates, many beautiful and very clean ladies mostly from Columbia one can find there, regulated and legal, ongoing med exams required for the providers.
. Originally Posted by craze danz

Sprit flies to Saint Maarten out of Fort Lauderdale now, I may have to add that to a future vacation.

many paranode people on here, still have no idea how they will enforce this. Just my 2 cents. Originally Posted by cubsoxbull

It's not about paranoia, it's about the fact that in any given year a new aggressive DA could start actually prosecuting and fuck your life over just because you wanted some poontang. You get caught, new DA is hyper aggressive and wants to score political points? You're fucked.

They won't be outed because the law does not apply to the rich and or powerful. Originally Posted by needbbbj

Ain't that the f***ing truth?

Does this new law mean that a sugar baby can accuse someone of paying or offering to pay her for fun, and she can press charges, or if she is arrested on some other felony charge, she can make a deal with police to set up a client in return for a reduced sentence for herself?

Just thinking out loud, I see ways this new law could motivate police to score numerous felony convictions across a wide spectrum of social life, not just AMPs or at P411... even reviewing a lady would seem risky to do.

Many of these ladies get in their own trouble engaging in nefarious non-hobby activities. I do know its standard practice to offer them deals if they can set up three probable cause felony arrests for police.

Getting married is also paying for sex. HA!

As saying goes---Nothing's illegal until you get caught

Getting married is also paying for sex. HA! Originally Posted by CG2014

Or paying for not having sex...

Does this new law mean that a sugar baby can accuse someone of paying or offering to pay her for fun, and she can press charges, or if she is arrested on some other felony charge, she can make a deal with police to set up a client in return for a reduced sentence for herself?

Just thinking out loud, I see ways this new law could motivate police to score numerous felony convictions across a wide spectrum of social life, not just AMPs or at P411... even reviewing a lady would seem risky to do.

Many of these ladies get in their own trouble engaging in nefarious non-hobby activities. I do know its standard practice to offer them deals if they can set up three probable cause felony arrests for police. Originally Posted by Buckwiser

Yes because the penalty for 1st time soliciting is probably almost worse than what they would get for extortion and they could just spin the extortion as the guy buying... Certainly someone selectively recording conversations could set a guy up.

Just think about how the gays must feel too. I mean there's no issue of 'the patriarchy' there and they're going to hell anyways at least by any orthodox religious standard. So the do gooders who passed this law aren't doing anything 'good' for them other than helping fat lonely gay guys stay lonely.

Texas legislature just legislated an increase in HIV.

Structural risk factors for HIV infection include work environment, poverty, stigma, discrimination, and criminalization of sex work which increase the risk for HIV infection among sex workers by creating barriers to accessing HIV care and prevention services [5, 18, 21–25]. The settings where sex work occurs have a large impact on vulnerability by making it harder to negotiate condom use, find protection from violence, and have access to HIV prevention, treatment and sexual health services, including STI treatment, condoms and contraception [26]. For example, a study in Kenya found that street-based sex workers had a higher prevalence of HIV when compared to women working in fixed establishments [27]. In Miami, sex workers did not seek healthcare out of fear of discrimination and arrest [25]. Finally, there are important barriers associated with accessing prevention services as a result of the anti-prostitution laws in 49 of 50 states in the United States. Federal and local policies may discourage researchers and programs from providing services to this population [28].

The findings of systematic reviews have improved characterization of HIV burden in other parts of the world and in populations who are most at risk for HIV, including men who have sex with men, transgender women and female sex workers in international settings [3, 29, 30]. To date, however, no systematic reviews of the burden of HIV among female sex workers in the United States have been published and the burden of HIV among this population remains poorly understood. The purpose of this systematic review is to characterize the prevalence of, and risk factors for, HIV infection among female sex workers in the United States.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114707/

As saying goes---Nothing's illegal until you get caught Originally Posted by limerick304

Tell that to the DA and judge and see how much mercy you're shown. I'll skip the felony conviction.

Tell that to the DA and judge and see how much mercy you're shown. I'll skip the felony conviction. Originally Posted by twitch760

Do they really want to clog up the docket with felony trials for "sex crimes" - this is so pathetic.

There's literally nothing good or positive that will come out of doing this.

The only sane path forward is regulation and legalization.

So, it can be safe for both sides...and for the community.

Even Hitler's Germany was controlling it with regulation, while they were saying it was "degenerate" behavior...but they weren't so stupid to not recognize the fact of sex work is here to stay.

Why Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized
Questions and Answers
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/...decriminalized

There's literally nothing good or positive that will come out of doing this.

The only sane path forward is regulation and legalization.

So, it can be safe for both sides...and for the community. Originally Posted by oldphone14

You won't get any arguments from here there. I think this is terrible and will destroy a lot of lives for really no reason. People have been paying for sex since the beginning of time. It's the puritanical wing in this country that are pushing for this. Decriminalization and regulation is the best path forward. Tax it at 20% and make the girls get tested weekly to have a license to work hell even require condoms I don't care. But as it sits now this law isn't going anywhere and I'm not going to risk a felony conviction. I will have to leave this state and return back to CA who for all it's flaws at least has legal weed and I can pay a girl for sex and not go to prison.

Well hell....i just moved to TX for a promotion... And was excited. Now this

Read one way they want to catch guys is through ATMs. ATMs that are part if of the message place or close to. They are going to look for the pattern. Think ill be getting my cash from a distance now