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If a woman is carrying more than 2 condoms in DC, she can be arrested as a prostitute
http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2010/condomsarrest.asp
http://womensrights.change.org/blog/...h_prostitution
Basically, if you're out at night alone with your boyfriend, another male, whatever--and carry condoms in your purse, then you can be arrested and charged as a prostitute. as if the police didn't already have enough ways to humiliate women, here is an additional patriarchal tool at their disposal...
EDIT: and of course they'll use this law to target every single transsexual on earth...
WTF Condoms come in like packs of 6, 12, 24 and costco pack sizes. This basically means if women want to practice safe sex and are buying condoms, they need to smuggle that shit home. Always trying to control the factor of human production without regard for the people responsible for said production.
EDIT: just read the articles, not quite as "drastic" as having to smuggle condoms home, but the police will probably label any non conservative white woman as a sex worker, so it just might end up with smuggling condoms home from the general store.
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This is retarded... this is almost as bad as the brothel law in Ripon Wisconsin where several single women who are unrelated to one another cannot live in the same house or apartment.... Seriously though, this is going to scare women from buying condoms and in turn is going to cause things like unwanted pregnancy and std rates to arise.
Reliable sources tell me female prostitutes use hormonal birth control, too. Confiscate!
I'm pretty sure that's an urban legend
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No, I've heard North Carolina has that same law.
Okay, do you realize that this is how urban legends spread?
Besides, even if some places do have these laws, they are most likely arcane and mis-understood by the general public, and not even known to most state officials.
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If they had that law in Milwaukee I'd be busted seeing as I carry about 3 flavored condoms any given night in case some john wants to pay me for a b.j..
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[FONT=Times New Roman]Like how Alabama only took there law against miscegenation in marriage off the books in 2007.
This law in DC however is a real affront to womans rights, anybody in DC planning on doing anything against it?
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Oh come on bourgeoisie! I thought you were smarter than this.
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You did?
This is so blatantly sexist too, theres never any male prostitutes of course.
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It seems fairly clear to me that this is more of an excuse to victimize known prostitutes than to harass random women who are out at night. It's similar to how a white man in a business suit could carry around $10,000 in a briefcase without legal consequences, while a black or Hispanic person would be instantly identified as a trafficker and detained for "reasonable suspicion."
But its still fucking stupid, and its still discrimination.
How fucking stupid can people-state-police can be?Every day the prove themselves to be more and more fucking idiots with no brain.
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Let's be clear-- there are no laws restricting the carrying of condom. It's the police profiling of race, color, and [trans]gender that is at work here. Nobody gets charged with violating the "condom quantity" law, as there is none.
It is discrimination, but the system is discriminatory, and I just don't think this is really all that exceptional in the context of that system. The condoms themselves are not illegal, as Mr. Artesian noted; it is merely that they are used as justification for "reasonable suspicion" that a crime has been committed, and therefore, while the title of the OP does reflect an absurd extension of the unjust criminalization of prostitution, it is important to consider it in context.
Sorry to repeat my analogy, but I think it's relevant. There is nothing inherently illegal about carrying around a briefcase with $8,000 in cash. However, if you "fit the profile" of a drug trafficker, it will be used as evidence against you. That's how the legal system works.
Ultimately, I guess I just think that focusing on the absurd extensions of unjust legal systems often becomes a gateway drug to left-liberal reformism.
Uncle Sam says sex is bad! It just gets worse... literally. Now even the act of sex is under fire in DC.
I think that if sex becomes illegal, it'd give sex extra kink points.
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It's not urban legend... when I went to check out Ripon College, the counselors were telling us that it was because of this law that they had sorrority floors in the dorms rather than sorrority houses in the town like they used to...
If it matters at all, the Republican party was founded in Ripon in 1854...
Joe McCarthy was from the Fox Valley as was my last ex.
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Conservatives in the US are always trying to outlaw sex in some form or another...yet they advocate guns... could the gun be a substitute
for a too-small penis?
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