The joke being that he assumes that married people are actually having sex.
Actually, he’s half right.
So the law can dictate whether or not a mentally competent adult who provides social companionship for money, a perfectly legal profession, is allowed to have consensual sex with another mentally competent adult in certain situations where it would be perfectly legal for anyone else to do so?
Not saying you’re wrong, just playing devil’s advocate, and of course there obviously are arrests made in this context. Also, in practice, law enforcement tends to single out the provider, not the customer, and I imagine it’s much easier to do this as the provider/service stops just short of guaranteeing sex for money on their website, flyer, etc. In addition, I’m sure there is often something not quite kosher with the recordkeeping, payroll tax withholding, etc. Finally, judging from the number of repeat offenders picked up for solicitation on various cop shows, it seems that the common thing to do is just cop a quick guilty plea in order to get back to work as soon as possible rather than fight it.
I’ve often wondered about mail-order brides. Or women who marry rich men just for their bank accounts. Next best thing to prostitution!
I thought it was obviously a joke, since it’s absurd when taken at face value. But I guess I underestimated the odds of an absurd, yet serious, post appearing here. Next time I’ll add a :D.
Boom.
In most states yes because it is non-marital.
There could be 50 answers. But usually when the couple is legally married or there has been no agreement for an exchange of anything of value for sex. Buying a gal a lobster dinner for a BJ isn’t prostitution if there has been no agreement of sex for the lobster dinner.
It is strange that it’s illegal to sell what’s perfectly legal to give away.
How about a woman who sells condoms for $200 with free installation and demonstration of use with every purchase? 
It may very well be that various sorts of “sugar daddy” relationships might violate one or more of the various laws against prostitution that various localities have on the books.
The problem is how do the authorities go about prosecuting offenders? How do you generate evidence that will stand up in court? The classic victimless crimes are hard to prosecute because nobody calls the cops to complain. Even outright prostitution is hard to prosecute, which is why most laws “against prostitution” actually criminalize solicitation or other related crimes. So depending on the jurisdiction sugar daddy relationships might not actually break any laws if legislators haven’t got around to outright criminalizing those particular acts.
There is no such thing as an “obvious joke” on this board that everyone will regard as such, and certainly not on the internet in general. I don’t think there is any position so absurd that someone has not defended it here in all apparent seriousness. So yeah, if you’re joking it’s always advisable to add a smiley.
Just the opening :)I need to post one of my favorite Onion stories ever
http://www.theonion.com/articles/housewife-charged-in-sexforsecurity-scam,1773/
Interesting question. What if the non-prostitute got a business license to sell condoms, had a website and business cards, wrote up invoices for $200 condoms, paid taxes on them. Obviously, the sex just happened because the two of them found each other irresistable, once they met.
It wouldn’t fly for long, if at all.
There was a business recently in Madison, WI that was selling hugs for an hour and the authorities were all over them.
And the judge is going to ask “since when did a condom cost $200. Guilty of prostitution”
In other words, given that a condom probably only costs $1, then it is fair to say the the other $199 is for the sex. You wouldn’t have paid $200 to walk out with an unused condom. You can’t skirt the law that the easily.
Yeah, that falls into the same category as “It wasn’t bribery; the Governor paid me ten bucks for that add-on I built to his house”. Which also never actually works in court.
C’mon, folks, we’re talking about professionals here.
Cost of condom: $1.00
Re-sale price of condom: $1.50
Knowing where to put the condom: $198.50
And again, c’mon, everyone: The true resolution for much of this thread is “It’s only a crime if you get caught”. So, pay your wife whatever her price is, just don’t broadcast it from the rooftops. Or your girlfriend, or the gal you picked up at the singles bar, or the gal you picked up near the corner lamp post. Just make sure it’s someone you actually know, or for whom you have good references. Prostitutes, know your clients. Clients, know your providers. You can skirt the law that easily.
Oops! (Missed edit window).
Just noticed Colibri’s post #29.
So: 
I think the joke I made on another thread where someone said there’s lots of masturbating on submarines and I responded with “Sure, it’s full of seamen!” was an obvious joke. Don’t you think so?
Two things:
First, this is a good area where we have to look at the finer points of the law and how the crime of prostitution is actually defined.
Second, remember that this is ultimately going to be tried in front of a jury full of people who can use common sense to deduce that no one pays that much for a condom, but they will pay that much for sex. So any law that even mentions intent as an element of the crime is pretty much going to sink you right there.
Let’s drop it. In the future just make it clear when you’re joking.
Waitaminute. I heard an interview with the entrepreneur behind the snuggling venture. He swears there was nothing but snuggling going on. There didn’t have to be, he was making money with snuggling. He trained his male and female employees on how to behave if clients pushed the envelope. He believes he was railroaded.