Wizards forward Andray Blatche, arrested in an August 2 prostitution bust around Thomas Circle, will be attending some kind of seminar for Johns. It seems that it "features lectures by police officers and prosecutors on the laws regarding prostitution, safe sex and the dangers associated with soliciting prostitutes." Could this possibly be useful? It seems like an obvious waste of everyone's time and money. It's not like these people are hiring hookers by accident.
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Seminar?
21 Sep 2007 02:18 pm
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If it is going to be a crime, it has to be puished somehow. Like Piotr says, a boring lecture is punishment. Jail is a bit extreme, and a fine is like the government is saying the hooker's just aren't charging enough.
No, these seminars really work. There are several Republican lawmakers and aides currently attending such classes in lieu of jail for committing bribery, campaign finance infractions and theft in office. Bush is going to complete the genocide and war crimes seminar after he leaves office.
Strange to say, I was in a car once when a goodhearted buddy stopped to give a working girl a ride. As his wife was in the car with us, I could see no good coming of this, and urged him to drive on.
Even so, such a school would at least be more interesting than the 'jaywalking school' so many Seattleites were forced to attend in days gone by.
I don't know. I bet it would be pretty useful for learning how to solicit prostitutes in the future without getting arrested.
It's kinda like attending sexual addiction seminars in order to pick up babes.
Where else do you learn the correct toe tapping signals?
At some point the disgust with the religious reich is going to reach the point where folk decide to get rid of the Prostitution laws and hang the consequences for no other reason than to anoy them.
From a tactical point of view it makes good sense for the Democrats to put Republicans on the spot, force them to vote to keep prostitution illegal, then watch them get picked up in police sting operations.
It's not like these people are hiring hookers by accident
I got an e-mail forwarded to me once about this one time when the sender's best friend's third-cousin's ex-husband's former roomate accidently hired a hooker without realizing it. It was a horrible disaster. The e-mail warned that you need to be careful to not tap your toes in such a way that you accidently hire a hooker to remove your kidneys. That and that you can make a lot of money if you'll be willing to shelter the fortune of the estate of the late Minister of Bricklaying from the Republic of Maladaptar in your private bank account.
When used in this manner, "john" is not a proper name and should not be capitalized.
When is Vitter going to be attending one of these?
One thing they can teach him is to stay away from Thomas Circle. The cops have been trying to push prostitution out of that gentrifying area for a decade. Next time he'll know to head 5 or 6 blocks further east.
Maybe it's like my 8th grade Health Class...aka Really Bad Things That Might Happen To Your Penis Class If You Have Sex Class
The Washington City Paper did a piece on these seminars years ago. Apparently, they can be moderately successful, chiefly by making johns aware of the rate of STDs among prostitutes and of the frequency with which the more plausible transvestite and transexual male prostitutes work as females.
I seem to recall the lecturer asking the attendees whether they'd hired twenty different prostitutes, and told the ones who had, "more likely than not, you've had sex with a man."
I disapprove of homophobia, but that may be the nearest thing to a good use for it.
"It's not like these people are hiring hookers by accident."
You are so wrong, Matthew.
Recently, I painted a bookcase, and took a walk while I was waiting for it to dry. I came across a young woman who offered to help me dry it for what seemed like a rather exorbitant amount of money.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered her offer actually had nothing to do with drying my bookcase, and was slang for something else altogether. If I had attended such a seminar, I would have known about such slang in advance of hiring her.
Actually, I believe there was a white guy standing nearby, and Andray was afraid of him, so he paid a woman to have sex.
I didn't hire her, but I did once accidentally pick up a prostitute. There was a blizzard and I thought she needed a ride. Oops.
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Heads in the Sand
it is a bit like detention. Excruciatingly boring lectures are a kind of penalty, more humane than most.
My only experience was then I exceeded some number of drivers points, those that you got from speeding tickets etc. Actually, there is some didactic value. Of course, if I was getting a sexual kick from speeding, say, speed fetish, it could be harder. But ordinarily, you really do not have to speed more than police tolerates, so mild de-conditioning can be succesful.
Posted by piotr | September 21, 2007 2:30 PM