Dumb. just dumb. Sexual desire is THE stongest drive to humans. right up there with thirst and hunger and maybe beyond.
this is so screwed up ass backwards that it only tends to highlight what is wrong with the good ole us of a.
a brief primer on the world's oldest profession in the us of a - or how we got from there to here.
Some of the women in the American Revolution who followed the Continental Army served the soldiers and officers as sexual partners. The gold rush profits of the 1820s to 1900 attracted gambling, crime, saloons, and prostitution to the mining towns of the wild west.
In the 19th Century, parlor house brothels catered to upper class clientele, while bawdy houses catered to the lower class. At concert saloons, men could eat, listen to music, watch a fight, or pay women for sex. Over 200 brothels existed in lower Manhattan. Prostitution was illegal under the vagrancy laws, but was not well-enforced by police and city officials. Attempts to regulate prostitution were struck down on grounds that it is against the public good. Seventy-five percent of New York men had some type of social disease.
In 1857, the Lorette ordinance prohibited prostitution on the first floor of buildings in New Orleans.
In 1858, prostitution made 6.3 million dollars, more than the shipping and brewing industries combined.
In 1873, Anthony Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public. Comstock successfully influenced the United States Congress to pass the Comstock Law, which made illegal the delivery or transport of "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material and birth control information. In 1875, Congress passed the Page Act of 1875 that made it illegal to transport women into the nation to be used as prostitutes.
In 1881, the Elite Theater Opera House opened in Tombstone, Arizona. It included a brothel in the basement and 14 cribs suspended from the ceiling, called bird cages. Famous men such as Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Diamond Jim Brady, and George Randolph Hearst frequented the establishment. Inpired by the feather-wearing prostitutes in the bird cages, Arthur J. Lamb wrote his famous melody, A Bird in a Gilded Cage. Lillian Russell premiered it onstage at the Elite. Later, the theater was renamed the Birdcage Theatre, after the song.
Around 1890, the term "red-light district" was first recorded in the United States, and derives from the practice of placing a red light in the window to indicate to customers the nature of the business.
From 1890 to 1982, the Dumas Brothel in Montana was America’s longest-running house of prostitution.
In 1897, New Orleans city alderman Sidney Story wrote an ordinance to set up the District, where all prostitutes in New Orleans must live. The District, or Storyville, became the most famous area for prostitution in the nation. Storyville had 1500 prostitutes and 200 brothels.
In 1908, The Bureau of Investigation (BOI) was founded by the government to investigate white slavery by interviewing brothel inmates to find out if they had been kidnapped. Out of 1106 prostitutes interviewed in one city, six said they were victims of white slavery. (In 1935, the BOI became the FBI.)
In 1910, the White-Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) prohibited so-called white slavery. It also banned the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”. Its primary stated intent was to address prostitution and immorality. The Supreme Court later included consensual debauchery, adultery, and polygamy under “immoral purposes”.
In 1916, 40,000 prostitutes died from syphilis.
In 1917, New Orleans government shut down prostitute cribs and tried unsuccessfully to segregate New Orleans.
On January 25, 1917, an anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco attracted huge crowds to public meetings.
In the early 20th century, widespread use of phones makes call girls possible. Prostitutes go indoors, off the streets. They give their phone numbers on cards to customers.
In 1918, the Chamberlain-Kahn Act gives the government the power to quarantine any woman suspected of having an STD. A medical examination was required, and if it revealed an STD, this discovery could constitute proof of prostitution. The purpose of this law was to prevent the spread of venereal diseases among U.S. soldiers. During World War I, Storyville was shut down to prevent VD transmission to soldiers in nearby army and navy camps.
By World War II, nearly all prostitutes had gone underground as call girls.
and now, 20 years later, he's still getting it up!
What ought to happen is that the Institute for Medical Study of Perpetual Priapism should defend his lyinng ass, and put him on their payroll as a guinea pig. They could make a freakin fortune if they figure out what it is.
As to entrapment as a defense or policy, that's a lost cause. Those of us who can't get it up naturally, get off trying to keep others from getting off. That's what politicians are for!
