"Acting sexy" in Utah

[Ginger]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43117133/ns/us_news-life/

Escorts complain Utah law makes acting sexy illegal

Lawsuit challenges new solicitation law designed to help police in undercover prostitution stings


By JOSH LOFTIN
The Associated Press

updated 5/20/2011 9:49:33 PM ET 2011-05-21T01:49:33


SALT LAKE CITY — Two escort services have filed a federal lawsuit to halt a Utah solicitation law they fear could lead to the arrest of strippers or escorts who are simply acting sexy.
Utah defines solicitation as a person agreeing to sex in exchange for money. A new law that went into effect this month broadened the definition to include any person who indicates through lewd acts, such as exposing or touching themselves, that they intend to exchange sex for money.
It was intended to help law enforcement agents working undercover in prostitution stings, Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said Friday.
He said it would protect officers who were being asked by prostitutes to expose or touch themselves to prove they're not police because making such requests as a precursor to offering sex for money is illegal under the new law.
"Officers were being put in a position that we're not going to allow, so we took a different direction," Burbank said.
Andrew McCullough, an attorney representing the escort services in the lawsuit filed May 9, said the law is so broad that it could allow police to arrest licensed employees of sexually oriented businesses, such as escort services or strip club dancers, for doing their job.
The expanded law includes language that makes a person exposing their genitals or touching themselves sexually an indication that they are offering sex. Those acts are legal in Utah for private strippers.
"Most girls who touch their breasts are not telling you they're open for sex," the attorney said.
McCullough said the law is "virtually identical" to one struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional in 1988.
The Utah law could be used by police to hassle businesses protected by the First Amendment, McCullough said. For example, he said a semi-nude dancer at a strip club could be arrested for "suggestively thrusting."
Burbank said officers would not target anyone who is not a prostitute. Arrests will be made by undercover officers and only when it becomes obvious that a deal is being arranged, he said.
Utah House Minority Whip Jennifer Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, who sponsored the bill during the 2011 legislative session, said she worked with many different groups, including defense attorneys, to iron out legal issues with the law.
The intent is to target prostitutes, especially underage ones who are forced into the sex trade and trained to evade arrest, Seelig said. The arrest would be the first step in helping them get off the streets, she said.

 

[Yoda Cookie Monster]

"Acting sexy" in Utah

I would have totally used up my three strikes then. Remind me never to go to Utah, being as sexy as I am!

And as an aside... Mormon girls are hard to crack, but if you can, they give one hell of a hand job!

 

[cfelonius]

"Acting sexy" in Utah

Love them Mormons. :intello:

 

[Spaz]

Harold Camping wrong – again – about 'The Rapture'

By Brad Knickerbocker,
Christian Science Monitor, May 21, 2011

Hello? Hello?

Anybody there? Are we still here?

Oh, whew! For a moment there I thought Judgment Day actually had come today, as California preacher and religious radio broadcaster Harold Camping had predicted. And I’m really, really not ready.

There’s a lot I still have to do. Like organize my sock drawer and change the strings on my banjo. Not to mention apologizing for some – er – indiscretions that have been weighing on me since forever. (Which have nothing to do with the banjo.)

I mean, if there really is going to be an “end times” or “the rapture” or whatever, I definitely don’t want to be left behind. So whoever’s listening out there, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe! And I promise to be good from now on.

But it looks like we’re all off the hook … for now, anyway.

Read the full story here.

 

[snoopy]

"Acting sexy" in Utah

is it officially over yet?

 

[Rob Roy]

"Acting sexy" in Utah

It is in Australia, Oddball. Actually everywhere from Tokyo to Paris, it's Sunday right at this particular moment.

What does CNN have to say about the devastation caused in those countries in the past 12 hours by the rapture of all true believers?

Or does time not count until it hits the U.S. east coast?

 

[Cell]

"Acting sexy" in Utah

Thanks pal.

How tall is he actually?

We've got a basketball team up here that could maybe use his talents.

 

[Drayak]

"Acting sexy" in Utah

What talents???? :

 

[Valeria]

"Acting sexy" in Utah

Even this guy won't be able to help us...unless he can rebound with those little arms.