Article from Reason by Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
A federal court heard arguments yesterday challenging California’s criminalization of prostitution, in a case that could have implications for sex work laws across the nation.
Brought by the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education, and Research Project (ESPLERP), the constitutional challenge claims that California’s prostitution laws violate residents’ right to privacy, free speech, and free association.
“Our hope is to see this bad law struck down,” said ESPLERP President Maxine Doogan, “so that consenting adults who choose to be involved in prostitution are simply treated as private citizens again, and are afforded all the privacy and constitutional rights thereof.”
During oral arguments before Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges Thursday, ESPLERP attorney Louis Sirkin stressed that the case “is not about sex trafficking, it’s not about the abuse of women, and it’s not about the abuse of minors. It is about consenting adults that voluntary want to work in the sex for hire industry.”
Read the entire article at Reason.
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That will put as lot of demoncratic women and gays out of work.
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The Government needs to stay out of peoples private lives.
What next in California–murder is okay started years ago with Cain and Able—We probably have not seen what other wrong is right in the WAY OUT IN LEFT FIELD STAATE OF CALIFORNIA