Attention, whores and whore enthusiasts: Today Seattle Municipal Court judge Fred Bonner granted the city’s request to eliminate a Capitol Hill anti-prostitution zone (backstory here), based on Seattle police statistics that showed prostitution arrests dropping on Capitol Hill and rising in the Seattle Center/Westlake area.
From judge Bonner’s order:
Based on the information and evidence presented it was determined that the West Precinct area should be reconfigured to include the following: The areas bounded by Mercer Street on the North, Fifth Avenue North on the West, Fifth Avenue on the Southwest, Lenora Avenue on the Southeast and Westlake Avenue on the East.
And exclude the following: (1) The area bounded by Virginia on the North, Columbia Street on the South, Ninth Avenue on the East and First Avenue on the west; (2) The area bounded by East Pine Street on the North, East Pike Street on the South, Tenth Avenue on the East and Ninth Avenue on the West.
Women who’ve been arrested for prostitution are prohibited from being in these anti-prostitution zones without a legitimate reason (note: sex with strangers is apparently not a legitimate reason). Better watch where you’re walking, ladies.
It reads like you’re addressing the posts to attention whores.
@2, yes yes, Paul pointed that out. I think it works both ways.
I don’t think your headline says what you intend:
“Judge Okays New Prostitution Zone in Seattle Center/Westlake Area”
Sounds like a replacement for the Fun Forest.
If you’re picking up prostitutes on the street, you’re doing it wrong.
I wonder how different the legalization argument would go if we adopted a john-based enforcement system, where the whores weren’t arrested but the men soliciting them were, and the men were barred from entering certain areas. You could just bust them by license plate number as they drove down Aurora on other business.
I thought we were supposed to pick up our whores on Craigslist? That’s how I found Amy Pond.
maybe i’m slow, but if you’ve been convicted of a crime and paid your debt to society, you are once again a free citizen. (probation, special commitment centers and no-contact orders, etc. not withstanding). i’m not seeing how they can justify prohibiting you from walking down certain streets – is this like some sort of zone-wide restraining order?
@7 – Wasn’t Amy Pond a child when you found her?
Anti-prostitution zone? Damn, talk about a misleading headline!
@10 Don’t you always expect this sort of clear, well written reporting from Stranger staffers?
It’s quite peculiar. One would think that when it comes to women having the right to do what they want with their bodies, they’d have the right to do something that didn’t harm another being, like have sex for money, and they wouldn’t have the right do something that harmed another being (like a fetus.) Yet, it’s exactly the opposite.
I’m pro-choice when it comes to abortion and prostitution so I think both should be legal. I just think a much stronger moral case can be made for allowing prostitution and banning abortion than vice-versa.
I got whores!
In various Zi–ip–codes…
98101…98109….
They call me the Abominable Whoreman…
I got…
Thank God that men can still be prostitutes in that zone ….
@13 it’s hard to have a computer and an internet connection when every dollar you make instantly goes into your crack pipe or dirty heroin needle.