Woman Tries Her Hand at Harlotry to Obtain World Series Tickets
The internet has become a phenomenally effective medium for advertising products and services for many businesses around the globe. Facilitating this effectiveness are websites like EBay and Craigslist which allow their users to advertise or attempt to sell their products at an extremely low cost relative to advertising or selling via other methods while still reaching millions of potential customers. Thus, if you are trying to sell clothing, you will want to find an e-commerce site such as these and attempt to sell your product. If you are trying to sell your body, however, it is probably best not to advertise your services via the World Wide Web.
Authorities say a woman who lives in a Philadelphia suburb did something of the sort, advertising on Craigslist in an effort to trade sexual services for World Series tickets. Her ad apparently stated that she was a Phillies fan, a buxom blonde, and desperately in need of two World Series tickets. The ad also indicated that the price was negotiable and hinted at creative solutions where the exchanging parties could “help each other.”An undercover police officer contacted the woman after seeing the article and alleges that she did indeed offer to perform various sexual acts in exchange for the tickets. She was consequently charged with prostitution and other related offenses.
Prostitution is defined in the Tennessee Code as “engaging in, or offering to engage in, sexual activity as a business or being an inmate in a house of prostitution or loitering in a public place for the purpose of being hired to engage in sexual activity.” Thus, whether or not the lady would have been guilty of prostitution as a sex crime in Tennessee would turn on whether or not her offering sexual favors for sporting events tickets would be considered “a business” in Tennessee.
Prostitution is a Class B misdemeanor under Tenn. Code Ann. Section 39-13-513, punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine not to exceed $500. The statute also increases the possible penalties for prostitution if it is committed within a close proximity to a church or school. Tickets to major sporting events are expensive and can sometimes be near-impossible to obtain, but selling sexual services over the internet is not the answer. Possible alternatives to being charged with prostitution include watching the game at a friend’s house, asking someone politely for tickets, or being caller number nine.
Source:http://news.aol.com/article/susan-finkelstein-charged-with-offering/739640
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