LadyTantalize
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ORIGINAL: Leonidas I think that you have to separate a private activity between consenting adults from a business based on the same activity. I have never had a health inspector in my kitchen to check that the fridge is kept at the proper temperature, etc. to ensure that the meals served to my family or guests are safe, but they do so routinely at resturaunts. It's the same activity (fixing dinner) but in one case it's completely unregulated, and in the other case there are many regulations involved. There is generally an expectation in our society that when you offer a service to the public for money that the public has a right to an expectation that you will do so professionally and to acceptable standards of safety. The real question is whether there should be minimum levels of training and standards of practice for someone holding themselves out as a pro. If there were, and this woman (Asher) was in non-compliance with them it would come down to a matter of her non-compliance, rather than an issue of whether offering BDSM services for a fee should be legal at all. Just about every professional service, from engineering to medicine, to investment services has had to regulate in order to separate the professionals from the snake-oil salesmen over time. Maybe the time is approaching for pros in the BDSM biz to do the same. quote:
The real question is whether there should be minimum levels of training and standards of practice for someone holding themselves out as a pro. If there were, and this woman (Asher) was in non-compliance with them it would come down to a matter of her non-compliance, rather than an issue of whether offering BDSM services for a fee should be legal at all. Just about every professional service, from engineering to medicine, to investment services has had to regulate in order to separate the professionals from the snake-oil salesmen over time. Maybe the time is approaching for pros in the BDSM biz to do the same. I wish we could! Legtimize it and we all win! Look at Holland!
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