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[CARLHAYDEN]

Teen Strippers, Old Enough to Be Indoor Hookers but Too Young to Drive
Rhode Island's Quirky Laws Have No Rules for Minors in Sex Business
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
July 23, 2009 
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Elizabeth Roberts' 17-year-old daughter was put through the bureaucratic wringer to get a summer job in her home state of Rhode Island this year.

In Rhode Island, a loophole in the law allows girls as young as 16 to find work as strippers. The state also allows "indoor" prostitution.
(Sara Press/Getty Images/Getty Images)Under state law, the teenager could not operate a power saw, work on ladders or even pump gas. The state also regulates how many hours and times of day minors can work.

But in Rhode Island, where Roberts is lieutenant governor, the teen -- with a work permit -- can take off all her clothes at a strip club, even those where adult men can touch the merchandise.

Just this week the Providence Journal revealed that a loophole in the state's minor laws do not restrict girls as young as 16 from working as strippers, as long as they are home by 11:30 p.m.

[Holmes]

BRTD, or opebo?

[CARLHAYDEN]

BRTD, or opebo?

Good point!

[Mechaman]

Time to move to Rhode Island!

[Eraserhead]

This was posted and discussed already on the off-topic board.

[minionofmidas]

Probably won't last long.

[opebo]

Probably won't last long.

Tragically, nothing good ever does, Lewis.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Why the heck would a minor not be allowed to pump gas?  Heck, I pumped gas in our family car when I was like 10 - back when it used to be fun.  Now I'd rather stay in the car than get out and do it (especially when it's freezing cold).

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

The states of New Jersey and Oregon laugh at this thread.

[CARLHAYDEN]

Why the heck would a minor not be allowed to pump gas?  Heck, I pumped gas in our family car when I was like 10 - back when it used to be fun.  Now I'd rather stay in the car than get out and do it (especially when it's freezing cold).

Er, don't you listen to the global warming proponents?  They will tell you that "freezing cold" is something from the past, and if you believe you are experiencing it, then you're some kind of nut.

Oh, and last time I checked, even adults (unless employees of the service station) could not pump gas into their own cars in Oregon (don't know about New Jersey).

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Why the heck would a minor not be allowed to pump gas?  Heck, I pumped gas in our family car when I was like 10 - back when it used to be fun.  Now I'd rather stay in the car than get out and do it (especially when it's freezing cold).

Er, don't you listen to the global warming proponents?  They will tell you that "freezing cold" is something from the past, and if you believe you are experiencing it, then you're some kind of nut.

Oh, and last time I checked, even adults (unless employees of the service station) could not pump gas into their own cars in Oregon (don't know about New Jersey).

Obviously saying that the annual mean global temperature is increasing implies that it is never below 32 degrees at any point and time on the planet any more.

[Jake]

Is this thread implying that the skills for driving emerge before the skills for sucking a cock? I'd argue otherwise.

[CARLHAYDEN]

Is this thread implying that the skills for driving emerge before the skills for sucking a cock? I'd argue otherwise.

Now Jake, its Rhode Island, and thinking is an ability not widely found in that state.

[Mechaman]

Is this thread implying that the skills for driving emerge before the skills for sucking a cock? I'd argue otherwise.

Now Jake, its Rhode Island, and thinking is an ability not widely founnd in that state.

Yes yes! I'd argue that it is very necessary for every 14 year old girl to know how to effectively fellate penis if the situation should arise. You never know when a sex deprived male may require oral services, especially down below.

[Joe Republic]

Discrepancies between minimum age requirements like this pop up all over the place.  Look at the alcohol laws, for example.  A person may legally vote, have consensual sex, and fight for his or her country, but they must wait another handful of years before being able to drink.  It's insane.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Discrepancies between minimum age requirements like this pop up all over the place.  Look at the alcohol laws, for example.  A person may legally vote, have consensual sex, and fight for his or her country, but they must wait another handful of years before being able to drink.  It's insane.

But that was done on purpose.  I think this was more of an accident (at least that's the way the article makes it sound).

[Alcon]

Discrepancies between minimum age requirements like this pop up all over the place.  Look at the alcohol laws, for example.  A person may legally vote, have consensual sex, and fight for his or her country, but they must wait another handful of years before being able to drink.  It's insane.

There's also girls I could sleep with but I'd be a felon if I was found with a nude photo of them.

I know why the law's that way and everything, for practical reasons, but in practice it's still pretty ridiculous

[opebo]

... sucking a cock...

Dude, this is illegal everywhere in the Bad Place.

[Joe Republic]

Discrepancies between minimum age requirements like this pop up all over the place.  Look at the alcohol laws, for example.  A person may legally vote, have consensual sex, and fight for his or her country, but they must wait another handful of years before being able to drink.  It's insane.

But that was done on purpose.  I think this was more of an accident (at least that's the way the article makes it sound).

Your reply doesn't make a lot of sense, but regardless, when legislators arbitrarily pick age requirements for various activities, you're bound to find illogicalities like the example I gave.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Discrepancies between minimum age requirements like this pop up all over the place.  Look at the alcohol laws, for example.  A person may legally vote, have consensual sex, and fight for his or her country, but they must wait another handful of years before being able to drink.  It's insane.

But that was done on purpose.  I think this was more of an accident (at least that's the way the article makes it sound).

Your reply doesn't make a lot of sense, but regardless, when legislators arbitrarily pick age requirements for various activities, you're bound to find illogicalities like the example I gave.

This was a loophole that I think was kinda a mistake.  The drinking age was set on purpose.  Either way, both are ridiculous.