# 'Desperate' Phillies fan arrested for offering sex in exchange for World Series tix **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 27, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356 "2009-10-27T22:10:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dertulm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dertulm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dertulm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/41 "2009-10-28T16:11:15Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > **villa** ’s point wasn’t that I was using the word incorrectly but that I was using it in a way that was legally insignificant. I don’t see how your claim of discrimination was significant in any regard. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/42 "2009-10-28T16:29:04Z")
> [@Dertulm](#): > > I don’t see how your claim of discrimination was significant in any regard. _shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/43 "2009-10-28T18:55:38Z")
**’Desperate’ Phillies fan arrested for offering sex in exchange for World Series tix** 😕 This is news? Sounds kinda “Dog bites man.” ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/44 "2009-10-28T20:36:10Z")
Bottom line seems to be she should be free to screw for Phillie’s tickets if she wants. Laws against prostitution are dumb on pretty much every level. Nevertheless it remains it is currently against the law to engage in prostitution and this seems to fit the definition therefore she rightfully got busted. Sucks for her (I suspect she will get a pretty light sentence on this one). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/45 "2009-10-28T21:04:42Z")
Could she have gotten any takers? World Series tickets are worth a lot of money and, looking at her… ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/46 "2009-10-28T21:09:24Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > She should have been booked for fraud. She is not that pretty.Besides she was trying to screw someone out of their tickets. Eh, she looks OK, especially for a mug shot. I can imagine a scenario wherein if I were single and lonely, and had a _pair_ of tickets, I would consider working something out to have her join me at the game(s). I’d draw the line at giving her _both_ tickets, though! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/47 "2009-10-29T01:02:06Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > It’s discrimination against the poor. If you have no asset but your body you can just starve. So your ideal world is one in which women are forced to choose between prostituting themselves and starving? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/48 "2009-10-29T01:08:02Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > So your ideal world is one in which women are forced to choose between prostituting themselves and starving? You can’t be serious. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/49 "2009-10-29T01:47:59Z")
> [@Chakra Nadmara](#): > > Fantome is right, although prostitution is usually defined as a misdemeanor. Police, ironically, rarely care about enforcing certain things. Running a red light is more likely to get a cop on your tail than scalping or prostitution. As someone who recently got a ticket for running a red light (from an automated red-light camera, THANKS BIG BROTHER) I agree. Busting prostitutes doesn’t generate revenue. Things like prostitution are only as strongly enforced, in my opinion, as the politics of the region are concerned. Like a few other types of crime (marijuana, illegal aliens working for US companies) these things are more of a moral, and not an ethical issue. Had this person said, “I will kill your adulterous spouse for Phillies tickets” that would be one thing. But bartering them for some abstract amount of time? come on! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356/50 "2009-10-29T01:59:37Z")
The woman (and her husband!?!) have been given two tickets by a local radio station. She denies she made any explicit offers at all; she says she planned to show up, “bat her eyes” and get tickets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-phillies-fan-arrested-for-offering-sex-in-exchange-for-world-series-tix/515356.md?page=2)