What is COYOTE? You are visiting the COYOTE LA/ Southern California website. Please use your browser's return or back button to return to previously viewed pages. TESTIMONY ON PROSTITUTION Margo St. James and Priscilla Alexander- update edit by Norma Jean Almodovar 2. WHO WE ARECOYOTE was founded in 1. In addition to engaging in public education regarding a wide range of issues related to prostitution, COYOTE has provided crisis counseling, support groups, and referrals to legal and other service providers to thousands of prostitutes, mostly women.

COYOTE members have also testified at government hearings, served as expert witnesses in trials, helped police with investigations of crimes against prostitutes, and provided sensitivity training to government and private non- profit agencies that provide services to prostitutes. COYOTE LA does not hold meetings at this time, but will consider doing so again if there are interested sex workers who are willing to volunteer time to contact members and organize meetings. Previous support meetings were suspended when all the responsibility for meeting organization and member contacting fell on one individual and the other members did not contribute time or money to keep the meetings going. WHAT DO WE WANT? The laws prohibiting the soliciting or engaging in a consenting adult act of prostitution, or patronizing a prostitute, should be repealed (decriminalized as opposed to legalized).

The laws against pimping (living off the earnings of a prostitute) and pandering (encouraging someone to work as a prostitute) should also be repealed, to be replaced with labor laws dealing with working conditions in third- party owned and managed prostitution businesses. Laws which prohibit coercive behavior including forced trafficking and hiring underage persons for the purpose of prostitution (or any other sex work) should be vigorously enforced and punishment for acts of force, threat of force, rape, statutory rape and any other coercive tactics should be imposed without regard to their occupation or status in the community (such as police officers, immigration officials and elected politicians). In as much as prostitution businesses such as brothels, massage parlors and escort services, should be operated like any other business in the community, such businesses should be subject only to the same business and civil regulations which are imposed on other businesses in the area. When businesses such as brothels, escort services and massage parlors seek business licenses to operate, commissions should develop guidelines for the operation of third- party owned and managed businesses, including but not limited to health and safety issues, commissions, and employer/employee relationships. The commissions which develop these guidelines should be composed of a majority of members who are or were prostitutes, including individuals who have worked on the street, in massage parlors and brothels, and for escort services. Individuals who work out of their homes or apartments, or those who work in pairs or even small groups of prostitutes who rent a special apartment for the purpose of their work as prostitutes (for safety reasons) and who do not have an employer or company which hires them, should be subject only to regulations which are imposed on other "at home" businesses, with no special licenses for "sex work." If it is required to have a "home business" license which is not specific to prostitution, but falls under a general catagory of home- based work, it is not unreasonable for sex workers to be required to have such a license as long as it is not necessary to disclose what type of work one does. Prostitution licenses" have historically been problematic for sex workers because of the nature of their work and human nature itself, giving opportunity to unscrupulous individuals to extort sexual favors from sex workers.

Personally we'd prefer that no licenses were required for businesses at all, and that the government would stay out of the lives of its citizens, but we know the nature of government is not geared toward a laissez faire attitude toward anything. No mandatory health check- ups should be imposed because of the many ways in which sex workers do their work. For example, some sex workers offer only hand- release when giving a "full body" massage. Other sex workers do "fantasy fulfillment" which does not include any body contact whatsoever. Although technically the law requires a body to be touched on the breasts, buttucks or genitals for money or other consideration before it is legally prostitution, nevertheless law enforcement officers often arrest persons for prostitution who do not touch their clients in any way.] It would be senseless to require health inspections for such persons because the inspections would cover parts of their bodies NOT used in their work. Further, it was the horrible abuse at the hands of those who administered "health certificates" that led to the abolishionist movement in the first place, in the late 1. The female prostitutes were forced to give sexual favors to bureaucrats in order to get their certificates.

Those who did not comply were turned over to the police for the police to arrest. In the criminalized system under which prostitutes work in the US- except for certain counties in Nevada- many prostitutes are forced to give sexual favors to police officers in order to avoid being arrested.)Sex workers who do have intercourse (oral or genital) with their clients should be encouraged to have health check- ups regularly, and a current certificate of health could be an incentive for a potential client to hire only those prostitutes who have one. Not even regular health check- ups are a substitute for safe sex practices, and using condoms and offering "fantasy fulfillment" as a way to sexual pleasure without intercourse are also good advertising ploys.

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In order for sex workers to be able to get regular health check- ups, they should be eligible for health care coverage that they currently cannot obtain if they disclose to the health care provider the nature of their work. Sex workers should be able to form groups which allows them to obtain discounted health care coverage in the same way that employees of other companies can. BACK TO TOPWHO GETS ARRESTED? In 1. 97. 3, the year COYOTE was founded, according to the Source book of Criminal Justice Statistics, 3.

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An overwhelming majority of the women arrested for soliciting are street prostitutes, and virtually all of the customers who are arrested are looking for street prostitutes. Since street prostitutes are estimated by COYOTE to be only about 1. That's not to say that off- street prostitutes fare better than those who work on the streets when it comes to arrests. There has been a significant increase in the arrests of women who advertise on the internet and in local papers. In fact, despite the serious shortage of law enforcement agents to combat real crime, the LAPD often assigns as many as 1. Prostitutes aren't generally known for having weapons which might pose a risk for the police, but it seems common practice now for at least seven officers to storm into the apartment of a "suspected" prostitute to make an arrest.

The police claim that prostitution exploits women and children- and use the possibility of a "trafficking" network as an excuse to strong- arm the women whom they arrest... Batman: Bad Blood Free Download there. LA Weekly. Perhaps it is because the cops themselves feel the temptation to exploit the prostitutes themselves if they are alone or only two of them to haul in the temptress? Whatever the real reason, the citizens of Los Angeles are being short- changed by the LAPD, the City Council and the local media which does not reveal the extent of police and judicial resources squandered on prostitution related enforcement.

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