Albany Bill would Ban Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution

whynot_31 · March 2012

The bill was first introduced in 1999 and has been re-introduced every year since, but has consistently died in committee. This year, its backers express optimism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/nyregion/albany-bill-would-bar-condoms-as-evidence-of-prostitution.html?_r=2

Albany,

This could be the year you do something that makes sense.

whynot_31 · March 2012

Among New York's most contradictory sets of policies is this: Since 1971, the city has pushed aggressively for condom use, distributing more than 200 million free condoms, turning the NYC condom into an icon with its own tag line (NYC Condom: Get some!), even creating an iPhone application that helps users locate the nearest distribution site. In the same time frame, however, city police have destroyed or confiscated thousands of condoms found in the possession of suspected sex workers, using condom possession to justify arrest.
Sex workers and their advocates say this practice has had a dangerous, chilling effect, causing many who engage in prostitution to stop carrying and using condoms.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-policy-that-keeps-prostitutes-from-carrying-and-using-condoms/254197/

whynot_31 · March 2012

If Albany was busy accomplishing other things, I could forgive them for ignoring this proposal.

After all, a tiny (largely powerless) percentage of the population is arrested for prostitution each year.

http://www.sexworkersproject.org/

http://www.gems-girls.org/

whynot_31 · April 2012

Back in the news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/nyregion/in-new-york-city-giving-away-and-taking-away-condoms.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion

Albany Bill would Ban Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution

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