[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Fine line or not, the line is there: and therein lies the difference, regardless.

Sure but what is the actual significance of the fact that in one profession the sex is recorded and in the other it isn't? You don't really seem to think there is any

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Sure but what is the actual significance of the fact that in one profession the sex is recorded and in the other it isn't? You don't really seem to think there is any

They are not being paid to have sex with someone. They are being paid to allow their sex act to be filmed, that is the significant factor. Paid to allow their sex act to be filmed.

Clearly there is a difference, as you have already acceded to.

[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

They are not being paid to have sex with someone. They are being paid to allow their sex act to be filmed, that is the significant factor. Paid to allow their sex act to be filmed.

Clearly there is a difference, as you have already acceded to.

Except they are being paid to have sex with someone, that's something of a necessity in making a porn film. They are not "allowing" their sex act to be filmed, they are having sex purely so that it can be filmed

Yeah there is a difference but an incredibly small one, that is not particularly significant and one that doesn't merit one profession being perfectly legal and the other being completely criminal

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by InOne

Sex is a part of life, but being sold for sex isn't. There is a difference, we're talking about a different kind of sex trade here. Like girls being promised a job ending up being sold for sex, or even in some cases being sold in their own country. Drugs does not come into it.

If you believe drugs do not come into it, then you are more naive than I ever would have thought you to be.

Originally Posted by MTVN

Except they are being paid to have sex with someone, that's something of a necessity in making a porn film. They are not "allowing" their sex act to be filmed, they are having sex purely so that it can be filmed

Yeah there is a difference but an incredibly small one, that is not particularly significant and one that doesn't merit one profession being perfectly legal and the other being completely criminal

Nope - money changing hands for sexual services, that would be illegal. Having sex to allow it be be filmed is not illegal. Point proven.

"Yeah there is a difference". Again: you admit there is a difference. Hence why it is NOT the same.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Except they are being paid to have sex with someone, that's something of a necessity in making a porn film. They are not "allowing" their sex act to be filmed, they are having sex purely so that it can be filmed

Yeah there is a difference but an incredibly small one, that is not particularly significant and one that doesn't merit one profession being perfectly legal and the other being completely criminal

I agree, so does that mean if the guy filmed himself having sex with the prostitute it would then be legal?

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I agree, so does that mean if the guy filmed himself having sex with the prostitute it would then be legal?

In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not a crime, but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Omah

In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not a crime, but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.

Bugger... I was going pandering this weekend.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Omah

In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not a crime, but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.

It's a bit ridiculous really, I mean I don't understand how abortion is legal, because it's a womans right and it's her own body etc etc but then she doesn't have the right to charge men for sex with her own body.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It's a bit ridiculous really, I mean I don't understand how abortion is legal, because it's a womans right and it's her own body etc etc but then she doesn't have the right to charge men for sex with her own body.

She does :

In England and Wales and in Northern Ireland it is ONLY an offence to pay for sex with a prostitute who has been “subjected to force” and this is a strict liability offence (clients can be prosecuted even if they didn’t know the prostitute was forced).

It is illegal to buy sex from a person younger than 18, although the age of consent for non-commercial sex is 16.