# Why is Yakuza allowed to talk about paying for escorts? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 30, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233 "2012-03-30T03:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233/22 "2012-03-30T20:15:04Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Unless it’s murder. Or breaking parole. Or… Fortunately, to the best of my recollection we have not had threads in which people have discussed their ongoing murder sprees. I suppose if that became a common occurrence we might be prompted to make a rule against it.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233/23 "2012-03-30T20:26:36Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Fortunately, to the best of my recollection we have not had threads in which people have discussed their ongoing murder sprees. I suppose if that became a common occurrence we might be prompted to make a rule against it.😉 Against murder, or against talking about it? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233/24 "2012-03-31T21:08:47Z")
Wait a minute! He’s banned now. What was the final straw? I must say… a tremendous resource gone. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233/25 "2012-03-31T22:15:15Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Fortunately, to the best of my recollection we have not had threads in which people have discussed their ongoing murder sprees. I suppose if that became a common occurrence we might be prompted to make a rule against it.😉 So, rule of thumb. How many people can we murder before it’s a “spree”? Are we okay with like, say, six? Just asking hypothetically before the next two full moons. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233/26 "2012-03-31T22:42:18Z")
Let’s settle on some definitions. A spree killer is one who kills a relatively large number of people in a relatively short time. See [Charles Starkweather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather), who killed eleven people in about 2 months. Or, it you prefer, [Charles Whitman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman), who killed 16 people in one day. Serial Killers like [Charles Albright](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXuaqCSjKo) and [Charles Sobhraj](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj) typically kill with a lesser frequency. The only thing they have in common is being named Charles, and I suggest we ban anyone with that first name. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233/27 "2012-04-01T03:01:50Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Let’s settle on some definitions. A spree killer is one who kills a relatively large number of people in a relatively short time. See [Charles Starkweather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather), who killed eleven people in about 2 months. Or, it you prefer, [Charles Whitman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman), who killed 16 people in one day. > > Serial Killers like [Charles Albright](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXuaqCSjKo) and [Charles Sobhraj](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj) typically kill with a lesser frequency. I’ve seen multiple murderers also split into three categories. Serial killers, who kill multiple people over a long period of time; mass murderers, who kill a bunch of people at once in a short period; and spree killers who kill multiple people, generally in more than one place over a fairly short period of time. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233/28 "2012-04-01T03:03:25Z")
This thread has drifted way off target … and the target no longer posts here, so I’m going to ask you to move this discussion to a more appropriate thread in a more appropriate forum, please. And I’ll close this one, as it is not an ATMB issue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-yakuza-allowed-to-talk-about-paying-for-escorts/617233.md?page=1)