Sex and Donuts

From the LA Times,

there was more on the menu than lattes and a dozen glazed during the late shift at a Dunkin Donuts in northern New Jersey.

A 29-year-old female is facing prostitution charges after police say she took breaks to provide sex in exchange for money.

I guess it makes sense. Some Dunkin Donuts are open 24 hours, and guys coming in there late at night are probably going to be alone. She probably made more on one of her breaks than she did the whole night working for Dunkin. If we legalized prostitution, late night sex & donut shops might be an effective business model.

Arresting People for Having Sex

The Drudge Report has a link up called "Towns form secret CRAIGSLIST prostitution task force..." The article covers how Westchester County, NY is cracking down on prostitution, in which many of the people involved post ads on craigslist. One police chief told reporters that their operations against prostitution are " keeping area departments busy."

What a waste of police time and money, arresting consenting adults who want to have sex, merely because money changes hands as part of the agreement. And they don't just arrest those they happen to catch in the act, or in response to a complaint. Police departments create "task forces" and special units to conduct sting operations in order to entrap people, so they can make more arrests. I guess there isn't enough real crime to keep them busy. They are expending time and resources to keep us safe from two people having sex in a hotel room.

Over at Unreasonable Faith, Daniel Florian has a post up looking at the results of legalized prostitution in New Zealand, which took that step in 2003. Hopefully the U.S. will eventually move in the same direction.