-Amsterdam
-Nevada (except Clark County)
-Italy (no pimping allowed)
-Dominican Republic
-Hungary

and I am sure many other countries.

-Hoot.

I think in Mexico and parts of Canada as well--with limitations.  I don't know the full extent of the law so don't quote me on that though.

Nevada of course.....Being a UNLV transfer, not many girls CAN"T afford to take care of themselves! Wonderful it is.

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Reeutschland. EOM

EOM

Phillipines, Thailand, Vietnam, Amsterdam, Poland, probably many others.

I'm sure Dennis Hoff (the owner of the Bunny Ranch) is a rabid supporter of the current prostitution laws nation wide.
Kind'a like Tax attorneys/CPAs vs the ever failing efforts to create a simple "Flat tax" rather than the current boondogle of constantly changing IRS tax laws....It's all about the money!!

  Oops I got cynical...again

     Cm.

when something looks incomprehensible, it's probably because you don't know who's making money on it.

And you movie buffs thought that "Chinatown" was all about water!

self-interest lobbies RULE the world! trampling on the rest of us (and our rights) like a stampeding herd of buffalo

not to veer off topic, but almost every organized body (of government/commerce) has a duplicitous agenda cloaked in a seemingly moral and "reasonable" argument (after pimps and tax attorneys, the DEA and drug czars come to mind).

[waving to the LE snoops] ... hi there guys/gals. please go catch us some terrorists instead. we're proud of you nonetheless!


"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom" -- Pythagoras

I believe prostitution (as practiced by independents) is legal in Italy.  Cat houses, pimping, etc is not legal.  FWIW, the world sex guide reiterates this -> http://www.worldsexguide.org/italy.html

-Hoot.



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other great script "Tequila Sunrise", if you haven't already - a solilioquy on the nature of friendship, encapsulated by Raul Julia's reflections on the subject.

Thanks for the tip on "Tequila Sunrise".

Towne's screenplay for "Chinatown" is unmatched, in no small part for the reasons that you mention. One of the great takehome messages in this film is that, on the things that really matter, you often learn the real scoop only after it's too late. As Walsh (Joe Mantell) says to Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) at the end "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

Or to bring it back to the topic at hand, it would be like knowing who among our politicians and LE are actually being paid off by the "illegal" sex trade.

At one point in the film, Jake (Jack Nicholson) is talking with Evelyn (Faye Dunaway) about having been a cop in Chinatown earlier in his career.  When she asks "What did you do there?", he smiles (he knows he is telling a joke) and says "As little as possible".  He means that he winked at the corruption he saw there, and compromised his ethics by not enforcing the law (in this case the assumption in the film is that the laws he did not enforce were good laws, which should have been enforced).  So he compromised his integrity, something which he is not particularly troubled by at this point in the film.

But then he learns the truth about Evelyn and her father Noah Cross, and determines that this is one time in his time when he will not wink at corruption, but will try to do the ethical thing.  When it all goes terribly wrong despite his best intentions, he is left standing in the street, stunned and shattered.  At that point, one of his cop partners says to him in an attempt to console him: "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown", and the image is of the residents of Chinatown sweeping around them as they stand and engulfing them, while we listen to that great score.

Chinatown is a physical place, but more importantly also a "place" in which we either do or don't compromise ourselves and our ethics, and in which sadly corrruption can have overwhelming power.

A great script, and a great movie.

I don't, however, agree with it anymore; I have since I first saw it in my early twenties come to a fuller understanding of the tremendous power that ethical behavior has to win over corruption.  I know now that the good guys can win.