California bill would bar condom possession as evidence of prostitution

[davidn3600]

Arrested for carrying condoms? No longer, under proposed legislation to bar police from using condoms against prostitutes.

Assembly Bill 336 would disallow possession of one or more condoms as evidence of sexual solicitation in arrests or prosecutions.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano contends his bill could save lives.

The measure would eliminate the dilemma of sex workers choosing between carrying condoms to prevent disease or abandoning such protection for fear of arrest, according to the San Francisco Democrat.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/15/5192632/the-buzz-bill-would-bar-using.html

Does law enforcement really believe carrying a condom is evidence of prostitution?

Wow...you can get arrested for anything these days. It's all up to the cop's interpretation it seems.

[davidpdx]

1. Another way to control our lives

I guess if you want to get laid you better keep your condoms in your underwear.

[Hekate]

2. It's not "these days" -- it sounds like a very very old law that stayed on the books...

... that stayed on the books MUCH too long.

A lot of us here grew up in the days when condoms were kept behind the counter at the drugstore, so having to ask for them was a wink-wink nudge-nudge embarrassment. If my high school or college boyfriend had ever gone to buy any, it would have been all over town before long with the implication that I was a slut. Thank Gods that's changed with "safe sex" being the mantra.

As for this law -- good Gods almighty, it should have been removed from the books decades and decades ago.