but your example is one of coercion, not entrapment.

Here is an example of entrapment.  You are away on business staying at a nice hotel.  A beautiful woman approaches you in the bar.  After an hour of conversation, and drinks on your expense account, you take a chance and invite her up to your room.  She agrees!!!  Once there things progress as you might hope, but then she says BTW, if you want sex, that will be $$$.  Being excited, and aroused, you say okay.  The cops then break down the door and arrest you for solicitation.

Entrapment is when the police entice, not force, you commit a crime that you did not intend to commit.  No judge and jury will ever accept that you were trapped if you contact an escort or massage parlor, make an appointment, show up at the appointed time, and only at the point of the money transfer, you ask “BTW, are you a cop?”  By this time, you have clearly shown your desire to break the law.


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Yes, indeed, vice cops lie on the stand all the time and now they have more of an incentive to do so than ever before, because in many cities (Los Angeles being one of them), if you get busted for attempting to pick up a hooker on the street, the cops will seize the car you were driving, using the rational that you were using this item in the commission of a crime. It is then sold, with the proceeds going to the city in which the "crime" was committed. Even if you beat the rap, and the judge determines that your car should be returned to you, the impound fees (which also go to the city) will break your back. This is one of the many reasons why the Internet, and TER in particular, is a godsend because it greatly reduces the risk of arrest.

I agree. the better you review the site and the information on here the safer you will be.  the only thing I have trouble with is getting in contact with  a previous visitor of a girl which sometimes makes me wonder as well.