# Why aren't adult film makers ever charged with prostitution and pimping?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 13, 2002, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-adult-film-makers-ever-charged-with-prostitution-and-pimping/123661 "2002-08-13T10:14:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-adult-film-makers-ever-charged-with-prostitution-and-pimping/123661/1 "2002-08-13T10:14:42Z")

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I wonder because:

(1) Prostitution, also known as paying for sex, is generally illegal.

(2) Adult film stars sign contracts to be in movies where they have sex. Thus, they are payed to have sex.

How do the makers of these types of movies avoid that kind of legal trouble?

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**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-adult-film-makers-ever-charged-with-prostitution-and-pimping/123661/2 "2002-08-13T10:23:40Z")

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Search, and you shall receive:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=3935](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=3935)  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=82797](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=82797)  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54608](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54608)  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=16003](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=16003)

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-adult-film-makers-ever-charged-with-prostitution-and-pimping/123661/3 "2002-08-13T14:55:46Z")

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They have permits to make same.

Only a couple of cities or so in the US issue such permits.