Although the Mann Act, a federal statute, makes it a crime to transport prostitutes across state or international borders, it is rarely enforced in the context of a prostitution ring like the one that French investigators are examining, said a former federal prosecutor.
I don't like intellectual prostitution, I like honesty.
Garcia, 72, was arrested and jailed in June 2011 when police connected him and six others including Fairleigh Dickinson University professor David Flory, 70, to the website, which they claim was run like an online prostitution ring.
A self-described "conservatarian," Hof has said he would like to legalize prostitution and drug use statewide, and says prohibition only makes both practices more dangerous.
The Ottawa Magazine piece cites a pimping expert who says the girls were possibly "influenced by a variety of mass-media sources"—like rap and a particularly prostitution-filled episode of 90210.
Some politicians would like to see prostitution outlawed in Spain, though that does not seem imminent.
"It is kind of like prostitution, where you target the people who are the users and you then eliminate the supply," he said.
Prostitution is legal in Brazil (though running a prostitution-related business, like a club or brothel, is not).
"It looks like a house of prostitution," said Arnold Davis, a former board member.
In each of the known cases in Baton Rouge, the district attorney's office declined to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence that a crime, like prostitution, had taken place.
