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cobraboy
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I disagree.Without any arrests the influx of mongers will continue to rise as the wonderful world of Sosua spreads her legs open far and wide welcoming all.
All the DR would have to do is differentiate between citizens/residents and tourists.
Register prostitutes along with required health checks. Require them to show their ID cards in public.
Require tourists to buy "hooker tickets" from the gubmint which requires the tourist's name and health verification. Tax the tickets. No health certificate, no tickets. Maybe have a kiosk at the airport for convenience.
Post the names and photos of those buying "hooker tickets" on the health department website.
Then, with random checks, arrest any girl who hooks a tourist without a tourist ticket. Ditto a john who tries to buy an undercover hooker without a "hooker ticket."
Set up a Snitch Reward System for folks turning in an unregistered hooker or john. You know that would work, for money and revenge.
Then you have just made *some* prostitution illegal, even though prostitution is "legal." And then "legal" prostitution becomes less anonymous.
Complex? Well, yes. Difficult to enforce? Maybe. Hard to tell. I could see the Hooker Police hanging around the hooker bars randomly asking for couples to show their ID and tickets.
But it *could* be done without just random arrests of tourists for no real reason. So create the reason.
And if the word ever got out in the monger community, I doubt they'd be so anxious to be a weekend Pimp Daddy Warrior, Especially if names of those who bought tickets are posted online. You don't think that website would become popular for Boos who don't understand why their Man takes trips to the DR all the time? Or employers?
Of course, it won't happen, but *could* be done. In the meantime, the Powers That Be will just do as they have always done: harass people into submission because they can. If you dont like it, file a suit against the gubmint and see where that goes.
I know in my neck of the woods in FL two local counties (around Tampa Bay) required people to be licensed as "adult entertainers" in bookstores, massage parlors, girly dancing bars, etc., with names and pictures posted online. Background checks, etc. That put a real kibosh on that industry and those places had a really difficult time maintaining staff. Places were constantly raided for unregistered employees, and the busts were perp walks on TV.
It all comes down to political will.