Is it wrong to discriminate against sex workers?

I think this is a viable clause for a hotel that wants to quickly turn a room around to the next client.
What difference does it make who rents the room, as long as the money gets paid? :huh:

I don't know, wouldn't you need the consent of the owner to film in his rooms? Or are they regarded as public for this purpose?
At various science fiction conventions (most of the ones I've attended have been at hotels), I have either taken photos of people in costumes, or someone has taken a picture of me in my costume. This happened both in the room I'd rented and out in the public hallway. At no time did we feel the need to ask permission of anybody except the person being photographed. At no time did the hotel staff object, or even really notice.


In the case of a sex worker, it's not her I'd be worried about - it's the potential problems that may arise from violent customers, or if illegal drugs could be involved.
 
Photos or it didn't happen.
 
I want to see your sci-fi convention costume, as I'm sure many others do as well.

But seriously, I completely agree with your point. I don't see how motels have any right to complain about any legal activities in their rooms. And they had better have a very good reason to know about any illegal ones.
 
Sorry, I don't have any way to upload those pictures. They were taken long before I had any kind of computer, let alone a scanner. And I've never posted a photo of myself online, anyway. Never will, either.

It's not like I was dressed as Princess Leia, guys - I was pretty well covered up, as I prefer to wear medieval-style outfits or D&D-style mage outfits (not the kind that shows a ridiculous amount of cleavage). Just imagine various-colored long dresses, gold, silver, or copper jewelry, lots of embroidered accessories (I made my own hats and other hair accessories and pearl-embroidered shoes), leather and/or velvet pouches, and Larry Elmore-type magic-user accessories such as feathers, bells, etc. (however, I never used bat guano or skulls as part of my costume - that's taking it a bit too far!). I also had various-colored cloaks to coordinate with my costumes.

A lot of my fantasy stuff also doubled for my SCA costumes (minus the strictly D&D elements, since I had neither the talent to make my own historically-correct outfits or the $$$ to pay someone else to do it.

My grandmother took a picture of my boyfriend and me, dressed in our convention costumes. He was made up as a character from one of the Andre Norton series, with black makeup covering his entire body, and silver hair. As I recall, it totally freaked out the chambermaid at the hotel when she knocked on the door and he answered... :mischief:

And then there's the guy who made a costume out of old floppy disks (the 5 1/2" kind), and used blue food coloring to dye his skin. He billed himself as a "Computer Malfunction", and won a prize in the costume competition for Best Comedy. Everything was great until Sunday, and he realized he couldn't scrub the food coloring off. It made the hitchhike from Calgary to Edmonton rather interesting. For some reason, people were a little reluctant to pick up a bearded guy who was blue from head to toe. :lol:
 
To be honest, I'm a bit surprise that you can use a motel room for business purposes. Does that mean I could rent a motel room an use is as an office for a insurance agency (or whatever)? If that is the case, then yes, the owner really has legal grounds to deny a prostitute the motel room for her business.
I do contract transcription out of motel rooms when I can't get internet access, or quiet, which is fairly regularly.
 
No, it isn't morally wrong to kick whores out of hotels if the owners don't want the hassle of dealing with the type of clientele whores bring with them or the rep of being "that kind" of hotel.
 
Give that I made the statement? However, this would have been the better response:

 
How is doing business involving your body in a motel room different from any other kind of business in a motel room? Objecting to this is just displaying an attitude that sexual business is somehow so different from other kinds of business that you can't even tolerate it happening in your rooms - even though you're perfectly fine with all other forms of sex happening in your rooms. So let's see here...

>Owner is fine with sex in rooms
>Owner is fine with business in rooms
>Owner is somehow not fine with sexual business in rooms

Yeah... no. Not to mention, thanks to those who quoted the appropriate laws and bolded the applying portions, it's quite obvious that what the owner did was very clearly illegal, and thus he has no legal basis to stand on - and a very questionable moral basis.

That part certain shows how far this present world has sunk.
 
That part certain shows how far this present world has sunk.
It isn't like prostitution wasn't common throughout history. IIRC in the 50's around 75% of men would have their first sexual encounter with a prostitute (if you want, I can go hunting in Freakonomics for the specific info).
 
I can believe that, although I would caution that back then we had a much more gradual attitude towards sex. Certainly the idea of taking a girl home and bedding her that night was almost non-existant, and quite frankly it probably wasn't healthy to be consorting with the type of girls who would be game for that in the first place!
 
Jesus forgave prostitutes, why can't you?
Because CH isn't Jewish?
 
At various science fiction conventions (most of the ones I've attended have been at hotels), I have either taken photos of people in costumes, or someone has taken a picture of me in my costume. This happened both in the room I'd rented and out in the public hallway. At no time did we feel the need to ask permission of anybody except the person being photographed. At no time did the hotel staff object, or even really notice.
I would think that in many cases it would make a difference if the filming/photographing is done for private or commercial reasons

- taking pictures of yourselves from a sci-fi con -> ok
- filming a couple/yourself having sex for your own personal library -> ok
- filming a couple/yourself for a porn flick -> requires permission
- filming the interor of the motel for a documentary on motels (or whatever) -> requires permission

(at least that's how it most likely would be handled around here)

It isn't like prostitution wasn't common throughout history.
yeah, I never understand why many view it as a new phenomenon. even though prostitution most certainly isn't 'the oldest profession' as often claimed, it is a very old profession and has been around at pretty much every stage of our civilization whether it was legal or not.
 
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