Quite a few things to unpack here as the misinformation was flying faster than one can process.
1. I live in California and pay for my visits to doctor, and they put a finger in my ass for DRE, so is my PCP “qualified for the crime of committing prostitution?” Money exchanged hands and I got fingered, in the ass. They fingered my wife’s vagina and put an ultrasound dildo in when she was pregnant. That seemed like prostitution sure under those definitions- should the cops bust her doctor?
One time the doctor was hot as fuck and found my happy spot during the exam and I got aroused, so this qualifies as me paying for a lewd or sexual act, no?
Our longtime married friends couldn’t get pregnant so they electro jacked my friend off to orgasm through his ass and simulated sex with his wife to artificially impregnate her. They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for this experience. All sex work and prostitution right?
I’m being sarcastic obvi, but this example alone shoots down the false narrative being pushed in previous replies. It’s not black and white, it’s not binary.
2. In the given example, the difference is college degrees, credentials, and a medical setting. Be aware that the best and most popular enema nurses in California have degrees in nursing or medicine, hold multiple credentials, and have very intricate medical rooms. There is a fine line between them and colon hydrotherapists, and often times, the pro dommes have more education and medical training than the actual workers in that field. They could make the argument in court that patients get aroused during these legit medical procedures all the time and it’s not sex work. They are medical professionals and therapists providing a mental and physical health service.
3. Dungeons out here are labeled as “arts theaters” and “performance art collectives”. In California, we can legally get pretty wild as long as it is for entertainment. There is a loop hole in prostitution law that allows some leeway for performance and art. This is how many such places fly under the radar.
4. Most of these acts, like enemas, are not sexual in nature to a vast majority of the population, including cops, DAs, judges, and juries. It’s strange, but not really a crime. Makes it tough to establish a crime worth busting in the first place, find a DA that will take such a case, and then a judge that won’t throw it out based on lack of merit. I made enough of a case in first two paragraphs that just reading that blurb in arraignment will get the case tossed on lack of legal merit. Our legal system doesn’t want to go there - they have bigger fish to fry.
Plus, where is the victim? How did the cops know where to go to bust this private enema session? How does one legally come up on an enema nurse raid without violating the law or their civil rights in the process? The pro domme would have to be involved in other and more serious crimes to draw attention of authorities had earn a visit from cops. But they aren’t involved in other crimes because they aren’t criminals, they are upstanding members of our community so we don’t test the legality of such things by arresting them on flimsy charges.
5. Not all states have the same laws when it comes to this stuff. California has different criteria and exceptions, unlike other states that ban spanking or whipping people. Plus, cops have better things to pursue out here besides busting gay bars and pro dommes. They did that routine for decades, and it didn’t end well for anyone. We learned from history. None of us liked the result, and that culture had to change. It hasn’t changed enough, but it’s changed in my lifetime, and only ones complaining about it are not pro-freedom true Americans.
Loop holes are all over. Before weed was legal, we had “collectives”. They were co-ops. We were “members,” people “volunteered,” we didn’t buy, we “donated,” and we weren’t getting weed, we were procuring “medicine.” Just changing the jargon provided us enough legal protection to avoid issues. We played by the rules, and cops were hands off. It was absurd, we all knew it, and we voted to legalize it all together.
Dungeons and pro dommes do the same loop hole word game to avoid issues. It works. Laws will come on the books soon enough and will end the absurdity of treating professionals in the sex therapy field the same as the village whore.
6. Neither Sherry Taylor nor Grand Dames are bribing the cops. They don’t have to. I know this for a fact. I’ve known them since efest west in 2009, and the only time they deal with police is when they call the cops because one out of 100s of players they see got out of line during a session. The cops sided with pro dommes in that case, and no one was arrested for prostitution. It’s not the same thing, and the cops knew it. They aren’t getting paid to get us off, they get paid to role play kink- big difference. The police were startled, confused, and shocked, but no charges were brought up following the encounter.
7. Finally, while far from perfect, California is a lot more free. People that constantly shout about freedom bash Cali and act like we are a liberal dystopian nightmare, but it’s all spin. Our “liberal policies” grant us more freedom than most states, which is one of the pillars of this nation: Freedom and States rights. We are free to do many things that would get you arrested in other states. Case in point: pro dommes (and pot).
Community as a whole decides what we deem acceptable in our realm, as it should be in a free and democratic area, and the vast majority of our population is ok with pro dommes, legal weed, movies that push boundaries, art that stimulates and challenges the consumer, and cutting edge new ideas. We attract people from all over the globe due to this paradigm, and alone, are one of the largest economies in the world.
We have many of the most educated areas in nation, and as a result see things like abortion as medical procedure that is between a female and doctor, not something the whole community needs to weigh in on. It’s not their biz. Ditto for what we do in our bedrooms and private sex clubs. It’s an approach to living, and it serves us well. We like it, we are not changing. Long history of this stuff from Sherry in the 1970s to The Grand Dames of today. Honestly, this attitude goes back to the gold rush in mid 19th century.
There is no web, zity, Facebook, or smart phone without California. We literally are the people that design your smart phone, bring you fast web service, and provide the apps and platforms you use when you’re on the web, from Google to eBay. We are tired of hearing people ironically bash the state while using one of our many contributions to their boring life as a vehicle to spread misinformation and hate.