The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Monday that it executed an extensive operation over the weekend that led to the arrest of 150 people on child-prostitution charges and the rescue of 105 children.
There is one business that continues to flourish no matter how unstable the American economy seems to become: prostitution. And while lawmakers are currently struggling to figure out ways to keep the country from tipping right over the fiscal cliff, there are some that believe the solution lies in legalizing and taxing the sex trade.
Texas is reconsidering the imprisonment of prostitutes. Currently, if a prostitute is charged with 3 counts of prostitution, they are charged with a felony.
Sometimes in this life, we are branded by our own indiscretions, which often serve as a cautionary tale for those members of civil society that have not yet crossed over into the wicked world of retail sex, drugs and bad tattoos.
In a ruling last week, the high court in Onterio, Canada found most of the nation’s laws governing prostitution unconstitutional. The Canadian parliament now has a year to amend the criminal code and the final result could be a fairly broad legalization of prostitution by our neighbor to the north.
According to a poll of 1,004 Canadians by Ipsos, the majority would be OK with this development.
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