Little Known Facts in the Prostitution Debate:
- Prostitution dates back to at least 2400 B.C.
- Prostitution is illegal in the United States except for 11 rural counties in Nevada.
- On Nov. 2, 2004 two prostitution referendums went to the voters in the U.S. with 63.51% of voters in Berkeley, California wanting to keep prostitution a crime and 62.78% of voters in Chruchill County, Nevada wanting to keep prostitution legal.
- The same brothel in Nevada could cost an owner a $200 fee in Lander County, a $150,000 fee in Nye County, and up to 6 months in jail and/or $1,000 fine in Las Vegas.
- Rhode Island has no laws prohibiting the owning of a brothel if the owner doesn't receive the proceeds from prostitution.
- In 1751, Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa banned short dresses and replaced waitresses with waiters to suppress prostitution.
- Researchers have identified at least 25 types of prostitution by location (street, brothel, etc.), solicitation (CB radio, newspaper ad, etc.) and and/or sexual practice (bondage, lap dance, etc.).
- In Sweden selling sex is legal, but buying sex is illegal.
- In Japan prostitution is illegal, but selling non-coital sex acts is legal.
- Prostitution is criminalized, legalized, and decriminalized in Australia depending on the state.
- In 2004 the number of U.S. prostitution-related arrests ranged from California's 14,506 to Vermont's 3.
- Proponents of legal prostitution have included Ann Landers, the ACLU, and The Economist while opponents have included Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Susan B. Anthony.
- Medieval canon lawyer Johannes Teutonicus, when defining prostitution, suggested that a woman who had sex with more than 23,000 men should be classified as a prostitute, although 40 to 60 would also do.
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