Vice: A Government Database for People Who Pay for Sex Is a Terrible, Dangerous Idea
A set of bills passed the Florida House and Senate earlier this month that would build a database of people convicted for soliciting sex, and which sex workers and advocates say will ruin lives and put them at more risk.
Senate Bill 540 and House Bill 851, when signed into law, will set up a database that includes anyone convicted of “soliciting, inducing, enticing, or procuring another to commit prostitution, lewdness, or assignation,” according to the Senate’s bill, which was drafted by Democratic senator Lauren Book. The “Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database” would filter everyone convicted of soliciting sex into one database. According to a spokesperson for Book, it would include already-public information from clerk of court including full legal names, date of birth, a mugshot, and the offense committed.
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If I sold…scented candles…I would love to have a list of people who have purchased scented candles in the past. Likewise the database proposed is a valuable tool for increasing profits for sex trafficking. Legislators understand that if sex trafficking increases by 15%, convictions will increase by 15%. The legislature’s are funded by ALEC money. Members of ALEC include Keefe (more crime, more profits selling inmates commisary), Securus (more crime, more profits selling phone calls to inmates), Walmart (more crime, more inmates to make clothes to sell). Needless to see why private prisons fund ALEC owned lawmakers.
These people are so arrogant that they think they can stop the oldest profession on the planet!
How about registry of closed settlements for wrong doing by the government and other professional who pay their way out at tax payers, share holders and employee expense. These are far worse of a life infringement.
“Well John G Joe is on there paying out wrongful death 2 million that’s why I didn’t get a raise in 2 years and no profit sharing I quit”
There are men willing to pay for sex because they lack confidence in approaching women. How does this make them dangerous? If anything these individuals are opposite from being dangerous. They look for mutual agreements. They are not out raping anyone. They are paying for a service to someone who is willing to provide it.
The dangerous people are those who are carelessly and recklessly making big decisions about other people’s lives, like this, and it’s all done for their own benefit. They don’t really give a damn about anybody but themselves. Anybody who ignores reality and does things like this should be closely monitored. They are the ones who are likely to be the dangerous ones.
If they were really interested in addressing the human trafficking problem, they would, and it would clearly show. They know where to look and what needs to be done. There’s just too much money involved for them to want to do away with it.
And who’s this keeping safe knowing who hired an adult hooker. With apps like hookup, plenty of fish, bars, Bon fires, library’s, churches, work, hospitals there is plenty of cheating and diseases being spread already kids knowing their dad is too lazy to buy a woman a drink and dinner for sex does what. Makes victims! Oh and brings bodies to the court to extortion.
I’m glad some of Floriduh’s stupidity is being exposed on a national level, such as in this VICE article. Of course, Book fails to mention the “Johns'” addresses will also be publicly listed (for no other reason than making them a target).
Book’s assertion, “So if it doesn’t work, the database will cease to exist,” rings hollow and is ludicrous. When was the last time a sex law was repealed in Floriduh? Uh, NEVER!