referring to Blackbeards. He was complaining about it in another thread which was just closed by Robert.
His legal question is legit. I tried the "advanced search" feature for the first time (very cool), and came up with this thread where Sr. Guzman addresses the issue (sort of).
http://dr1.com/forums/showthread.php...t=prostitution
Whether a "whorehouse" is legal or not seems to depend on whether a "third party" profits directly from the perfectly legal exchange of sexual services for money. My observation is that the businesses in the DR who have women available for sex carefully and cleverly avoid this direct connection. Some places charge a "salida", which is technically paid by the girl (after recieving it from the customer) to relieve her of her obligation to be present as an "attraction" to customers and allow her to leave the premesis. Other places charge a fee to use the rooms they have on site. All perfectly legal as far as I can tell. Other places simply allow (and probably "encourage") girls to hang out there because they attract men who buy their booze and food and rent their hotel rooms. The girls are customers too, although they seldom pay for their own drinks or food.
2 interesting things about Blackbeards are that although they will no doubt swear that the girls who hang there are "independent", they do have a staff member who acts as a sort of "mamasan". I have also heard that the girls pay a small fee to be there, and the management is involved in establishing a maximum price for services. If a girl asks for more, she is supposedly "banned".
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Whorehouses, legal or not?
