www.CostaRicaTicas.com

You'll enjoy huge credibility if, when you decamp from [(where did you say you were from? Maybe you mentioned in your only other post)] you'd irresistibly offer some of the Bruddahs North, South or due West of my Wrinkle City a chance to get with you there in we-make-tequila-in-the-laundry-room country. Splendid for all parties.

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I'm sure you do, troll, just as I'm sure English isn't your first or best language. Back under the bridge with you, wretch. Pimp the merch elsewhere.

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"Amen, brother"-ED

My friend I must make a slight correction in this statement. It is a very common statement and belief among Gringos and others visiting here.

There is NO law in Costa Rica that actually states prostitution is legal (nor illegal). There is no law dealing with the status of the act of prostitution at all. There IS a very strong and very frequently enforced law(s) concerning pimping. The reason prostitution is allowed here (and in many other countries) is not that there is a law permitting it, but that there is NO law prohibiting it. In fact the USA and Cuba are two of the very few countries who actually have a written law dealing with the legality of prostitution. Most just accept it as a way of life and deal with it and try to control it thru pimping laws.

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In the U.S. , there is no federal law prohibiting public nudity. But the individual states prohibit it to a great extent.

On federal land, you can be nude in public without risking arrest. Most national park beaches have plenty of nudity.

In New York State, a group of ugly women won a case in that state's highest court to allow women to be topless in public EVERYWHERE, just as men can be. Look up the history of the "Topfree Seven" in Rochester, NY.

Sirlm,

You are absolutely correct in there being no federal law banning prostitution. Sorry I did not make that clear in my earlier post where I stated that in the US there were laws against it. As you pointed out the laws are by the individual states. All the more reason it will NEVER become (wide spread) legal in the USA. As far as I know the only place it is legal is in a small part of Nevada and there it is "supposedly" very tightly regulated.

By the way, where (which states) can one obtain a pilot's license younger than 16? 16 being (or at least it use to be) the minimum age in most states for both pilot and vehicle licenses.

On your last example-"paying for sex acts in a video", you better make sure you have a signed (by the female) legal release form and proof of intent to "distribute for sell" the video. But in some areas making and distributing porno is illegal, or it use to be-I am not up to date on laws in the States.

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The idea of FEDERAL SUPREMACY is what makes a federal law trump a state law on the same subject.

We are the UNITED States of America. We are not the SEPARATE States of America.

That's what the Civil War was all about. That's how state segregation laws were overruled. That's how the state laws regulating the size of mud flaps on 18-wheel trucks were overturned (different states required different sizes). That's how the state anti-gay marriage laws are being challenged now.

The good ol' USA. Love 'em or leave 'em.

The Feds have the "enumerated powers" that are listed in the U.S. Constitution.

If it's NOT an related to an "enumerated power", the states can pass whatever law they want.

If it IS related to one of the "enumerated powers" ' the states can NOT do what they want unless the Feds allow them (by a specific federal law) to do whatever they want.

All of this is making my head hurt. Let's talk about pu*sy.

The size and shape of mud flaps cannot be controlled by the states unless there is a substantial benefit to safety that outweighs a federal interest (that's federal supremacy).

Citing safety, the state of Illinois passed a law requiring all freight trucks traveling through the state to have curved mud guards, rather than straight mud flaps. The curved mud guards better-prevented stones from being throw up from the road, compared to the straight flaps. The state of Arkansas, however, required the straight mud flaps. There was no federal mud flap or mud guard requirement, so trucking companies tried to follow state laws. It became difficult to follow state laws, however, when traveling across states like Illinois and Arkansas, where state laws required drivers to switch the types of mud flaps or guards on their trucks. Navajo Freight Lines, of New Mexico, sued the state of Illinois, saying that the requirement to use contoured mud guards only in their state was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court unanimously agreed with Navajo Freight Lines, saying that any safety benefit to the state of Illinois was small, compared to the interference with interstate commerce caused by the need for unique mud guards.

See a Supreme Court case - - Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. (1958). It has not been overturned.

Pussies flaps are prettier than mud flaps, regardless of what the Supreme Court thinks.

Canada just implemented new prostitution laws.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/pol ... e19610318/

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California and New Hampshire are the only states in which the production of pornography is legal. Oddly enough, it is not legal to produce pornography in Nevada, where prostitution is legal.

ahem...is this thread still about real estate and inversionista residency status???

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