This little scenario is emblematic of the meanderings that led me to choose law school as a path which I think will begin to lead me in the right direction and I thought it would make for a safe and interesting topic of debate without stepping on anyone's toes.
Basically, given our formal legal system and our somewhat more informal moral code that informs it, how in the hell do we reconcile the illegality of prostitution but the legality of pornography? The acts are essentially the same (sex with a monetary transaction as the impetus) though common sense would seem to indicate that if either were to be outlawed or condemned, the one with an addition - that addition being the camera in the case of pornography - would be the one more *likely* to fall into disfavor under the law. Yet, this is not the case and it is the act *with* additional aspects and considerations that is largely legal.
Now, if I were to pick up a hooker in some city, but have a video camera as well as the necessary paperwork which would document her majority age status, is this form of prositution legal as I now intend to make it a film? Where and how does the law draw that distinction? Where and how do our members draw that distinction and where does our culture draw that distinction? And, more importantly, why does this distinction exist? This usually sparks some intersting convo....let's see.