Raids are more nuisance related to apepase the AI's
Mcinbrass said:
I never passed a sexually transmited disease to someone through the work I do and had that person pass it off to his unknowing wife or family. (Victimless?) I always pay taxes on the money I make through my profession. If it is legal in DR then why do you hear of these "raids" they conduct all the time in Boca Chica and Sosua. The pimps who make $$ off prostitution and other illegal activities are I suppose doing nothing wrong either?
The raids have tended to be aimed at the so called rings of underage prostitutes, who I have yet to actaully see, or the street girls (not all of which or many of which for that matter have chulos, I know none who do) who are offending the frightened masses in the Hamaca, Don Juan etc., who are petrified to go out at night due mainly to presentations by the tour directors that say they will be mugged or worse as a pretext to have them stay inside the walls and spend their money there vs. the town.
The raids also line the pockets of the cops who take bribes of cash or services to let them go. Interesting that in raids as you say or other police presence that if a girl is with a turista they leave them alone - since the police are allegedly protecting the turistas they should peel these young ladies away from their companions to keep them the safest, first. But they don't.
Incidentally I have seen lots of Hamacadamias with the wrist bracelets in the company of street girls including paying for them to stay in the hotel or using short time rooms, so the AI dwellers apaprently are not feeling too badly about this issue either, at least some of them.
I would think in many countries where prostitution is not that prevalent or legal ( I agree with Jim H., it is legal) that the AIDS/VD rate would be quite low, using your logic that it is mainly spread by prostitutes.
Yet it happens quite a lot and if a married man gets STD's from a street girl and then he passes it to his wife how can you blame the girl? She didn't screw the married man's wife - and he didn't use a condom either apparently. Maybe infidelity should be the crime?
Finally, Nevada and many Canadian prostitutes (legal here, only pimping/soliciting is not) pay income tax. I think DR prostitutes are not alone in not paying, e.g playeros, vendaderos, colmado owners, taxi and motoconcho drivers. Nice argument though if it was not baseless.