Don't Carry Condoms in D.C. -- You Could Be Charged With Prostitution

[ccharles000]

Think you might get lucky tonight? Well, if you're in D.C., don't bring more than two condoms in your purse, or you could be arrested as a prostitute.

In D.C., police can declare "Prostitution Free Zones" where officers can pick up (I mean, arrest) anyone suspected of sex work. And they've been accused of using carrying three or more condoms as proof of intent to sell sex -- rather than intent to spend the weekend getting jiggy with a guy.

But as RH Reality Check points out, the real danger of this practice falls to people who actually are sex workers. It pushes them to abandon safe sex techniques, putting their own health at risk as well as that of the general population. Add to this the fear of arrest or harassment that keeps sex workers from seeking health care, and you have a recipe for disaster. Everybody should know by now that the nation's capital has a rampant problem with HIV/AIDS; this backwards practice contributes to its spread (at three times the rate that characterizes a severe epidemic). It's not like you can expect the johns to bring their own rubbers.

http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/dont_carry_condoms_in_dc_--_you_could_be_charged_with_prostitution

[Warpy]

1. It should be boxes of condoms

Honestly, anybody who goes to CVS and buys a box of them is breaking that particular law.

Talk about stupidity, it can only have been written by a Republican.

[ddeclue]

2. How do you get them home from the store?

:crazy:

I've never seen a "two pack"...

:crazy:

[ccharles000]

3. kick

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Oh the stoopid hurts

and lord I would have been breaking the law as a medic... YES we carried non lubed condoms to improvise the flutter valve in chest tubes. I always carried five in my trauma box.

:banghead: