September 15, 2004
Hands Off!
Vice Squad notes today that this article suggests that the Sioux Falls, SD city council spent some time dealing with adult behavior:
This insufficient criminalization of voluntary adult activity could not be tolerated by the Sioux Falls City Council, who closed the "loophole" on Monday. I hope that they were a bit more specific than what this article reports: "An ordinance approved Monday night makes it illegal to touch someone in exchange for money."Apparently they were a bit more specific as they amended:
...the Revised Ordinances of the City by adding a section prohibiting sexual touching for compensation,...What's not clear is exactly what they mean by the words sexual and compensation.1
There is a clue to the first in the news article linked above. At the state level South Dakota plans to clarify their law:
...by characterizing prostitution as any sexual contact that involves touching of female breasts or the genitals of either sex for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification.While this seems to limit the definition of sexual touching to a subset of possible erogenous zones this sentence like the first one above begs for additonal clarification as it appears to label all sexual activity of these types as prostitution. I suspect that they really are not planning to target those high schoolers in the backseat of their cars or husbands and wives. But, then again, this is South Dakota...
Oh yes, the above use of the word compensation is unbounded so it could reach a myriad of forms of compenstion, e.g., a job, a dinner, a marriage, mmmm, even, pleasure. Let your imagination run wild, well, not too wild...
1The site that appeared to have their City Code online did not respond.
Posted by Steve on September 15, 2004
