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    Default Is the party over?

    Indoor prostitution is once again illegal in RI.

    http://www.projo.com/news/content/PR...7.37cf9cd.html

    The SC I visit has also dictated new rules regarding contact. It will be interesting to see how all this plays out.
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    Default Re: Is the party over?

    Maybe this works better.

    By Lynn Arditi

    Journal Staff Writer

    Governor Carcieri, flanked by Rep. Joanne M. Giannini and Sen. Paul V. Jabour, Tuesday signs the law banning indoor prostitution in Rhode Island. At right is Rep. Roberto DaSilva, D-East Providence, who helped with the bill’s passage.

    The Providence Journal / Kathy Borchers

    Word that Rhode Island’s governor signed legislation Tuesday afternoon to outlaw indoor prostitution traveled quickly through the state’s community of sex workers, leaving many of the women who work at Asian “spas” on edge and their employers angry and without customers.

    Neon signs outside some spas went dark; employees at others said they were open, but many of the women, fearing a police crackdown, had refused to come to work.

    At the Central Health spa, in Providence, the “open” sign was gone and the doors were locked.

    “People were banging at the door,” said Josh Haywood Jr., a 23-year-old mechanic who works at the garage next door. “They never opened today.”

    Sex-workers in Rhode Island have been able to operate for years legally out of brothels, strip clubs or their homes because of a nearly 30-year-old loophole in the state’s prostitution law. But that changed on Tuesday when Governor Carcieri signed legislation to make prostitution a crime, even if it occurs behind closed doors.

    “For almost 30 years, Rhode Island has had the terrible distinction of being the only state outside certain counties in Nevada where indoor prostitution is not considered a crime,” Carcieri said.

    The governor declared that prostitution “erodes the moral fiber of our state,” and commended supporters for their hard work in getting the legislation passed during a special session of the General Assembly last week.

    The legislation — sponsored by Rep. Joanne M. Giannini, D-Providence, and Sen. Paul V. Jabour, D-Providence — the governor said, will help protect the state’s most vulnerable residents and enhance the quality of life in Rhode Island.

    The new law “sends a distinct message to any group [that] thinks they could use Rhode Island in furtherance of their illicit business,” state police Col. Brendan P. Doherty said at the signing ceremony. “The bottom line is commercial sex is now clearly illegal” in Rhode Island.

    Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said that the new law will “end a blemish” on the state and give law enforcement officers the tools they need to investigate and prosecute prostitution and related criminal activity.

    “Does this mean prostitution will be eliminated in Rhode Island forever?” Giannini asked. “Of course not. But it means Rhode Island will no longer be a safe haven for pimping and trafficking, and the victimization of young women.”

    The law makes indoor prostitution a misdemeanor crime punishable, for first offenders, by up to six months in prison and a fine of up to $1,000, or both. However, the law empowers judges to erase the criminal convictions of first offenders.

    Customers or “johns” face the same penalties as prostitutes, but without the possibility of getting their criminal records expunged.

    Warwick police Col. Stephen M. McCartney, of the Rhode Island Police Chief’s Association, said after the signing that talk about police enforcement of the new law was being “overblown.”

    People are talking, he said, as if “we’re all of a sudden going to descend, en masse” into suspected brothels.

    “We’re looking for the people behind the enterprises,” he said, “more than trying to go after the women.”

    Providence police Lt Michael “Mike” E. Correia, who heads the narcotics and organized crime bureau, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that “prostitution isn’t the number-one priority at the police department,” which focuses its efforts on violent crimes. However, he added, the department would certainly act quickly “if we have any evidence that there’s human trafficking going on.”

    At the North Main Street Spa, in Providence, a man at the front office said that word of the governor’s action had scared the women working there.

    “I usually have four or five girls working,” he said. “I have two workers … They refuse to come to work. They’re just nervous.”

    Anxiety was etched into the faces of a group of Korean women who gathered for lunch Tuesday inside the Grand Slam Pizza & Grill in Pawtucket.

    One woman, who asked that her name not be printed, drew circles on a napkin, each one representing a different city in Rhode Island.

    Does the new law, she asked a reporter, apply only to Providence or Pawtucket? Or does it apply to all of them?

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    Default Re: Is the party over?

    Is the party over? No. Is the era of blatant sex in RI strip clubs over? God I hope so!

    I predict a return to relatively high contact dances but no blatant extras in the clubs. This is going to generate a fair amount of housecleaning on the part of the clubs and soul-searching on the part of some dancers.

    There are entirely too many girls currently working in Providence who can only survive by giving guys hand jobs, blow jobs or more. Club owners are not going to risk losing their liquor or entertainment licenses over this new law. The gals that can't survive by working within the limits of the law and common sense will be forced out.

    As a customer I'm fine with this. I've always taken whatever was offered but I never go looking for sex in the clubs. If sex is what you want it's much more comfortable, more fun and, to be blunt, more economical, to hire an escort than it is to pay a stripper for extras.
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    Default Re: Is the party over?

    Quote Originally Posted by yoda57us View Post
    Is the party over? No. Is the era of blatant sex in RI strip clubs over? God I hope so!

    I predict a return to relatively high contact dances but no blatant extras in the clubs. This is going to generate a fair amount of housecleaning on the part of the clubs and soul-searching on the part of some dancers.

    There are entirely too many girls currently working in Providence who can only survive by giving guys hand jobs, blow jobs or more. Club owners are not going to risk losing their liquor or entertainment licenses over this new law. The gals that can't survive by working within the limits of the law and common sense will be forced out.

    As a customer I'm fine with this. I've always taken whatever was offered but I never go looking for sex in the clubs. If sex is what you want it's much more comfortable, more fun and, to be blunt, more economical, to hire an escort than it is to pay a stripper for extras.
    There are entirly too many girls working in Providence, period. Yesterday, 40+ during the day shift at CF on two-for-twenty Tuesday. Rumors abound as well that CL has federal indictments coming down shortly that may shut them down. Couple that with the the new laws and things are definitely heating up down here.
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