• Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 days ago

    They didn’t know that until they had already decided he was “suspect” and detained him. His stated reason, which was legitimate, was that he was attending an awards ceremony on official business. Detaining someone without cause is illegal and a rights violation, even if you later find “evidence” of a crime.

    Also, escort work in not illegal in all areas, so this is like detaining someone for planning to visit a weed shop in Colorado.

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      13 days ago

      The journalists at lgbtqnation seem to think it’s illegal.

      According to U.S. travel law, any individual coming to the U.S. to engage in prostitution or who has done so in the past 10 years is prohibited from entry. Travelers found inadmissible due to sex work can be banned from entry for up to ten years, as is the case with Myles.

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          You absolutely cannot argue against it being a grey area though, there are plenty of ‘escorts’ that are just prosititutes with extra steps.

          Granted, I don’t have anything against sex workers — I just don’t think your argument is very strong when it boils down to ‘I didn’t have sex with him because he paid me, I had sex with him because of this beautiful platinum necklace he bought me! Totally different.’

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            13 days ago

            The point is escorting often isn’t about sex.

            You hire a prostitute specifically for the sex. You hire an escort for the company, often as eye candy, but an escort may very well deny you sex.

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            12 days ago

            You absolutely can. The existence of escorts who are not “just prostitutes with extra steps” is sufficient. Just as many (most) massage parlors don’t offer “happy endings”, there are escorts (such as the one in the article claims to be) who do not perform sexual acts with their clients. Those escorts are not in a legal gray area - they are on the legal sideof a bright line.