Playing Safe

A summer session VSA

cyberlaw report

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Table of Contents
Playing Safe
A summer session excerpt from the VSA course: Cybersex and the Law

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Welcome to Virtual Sex Academy

Is virtual escorting legal?
Marketing A rose by any other name
Question of money The art of the drug deal
Communicating with your clients A new language
Farmer's Market: plants that make your head spin

Welcome to the Academy

Virtual Sex Academy is a web-based instructional facility designed to provide practical, useful, real
information for those who are in, seeking, engaging in or expanding their online sexual exploration or
relationships with other people. We strive to provide information on many taboo topics that many other
groups shy away from.
Most of us know that our world is changing. The online communities are growing and the people in
them are setting the standards for acceptable behavior from courting and flirting to engaging in sexual
encounters. Gone are the days of comparing penis size in the bathroom, now it's your ability to impress
and finesse that wins the day with the new technological age of online relationships.
It's great to sign up for a dating site, it sucks to never have anyone want to talk to you. VSA is designed
to help take away some of the mystery surrounding the ritual associated with building bonds across the
electronic highway. Our courses cover topics that connect your real life experience with your digital
desires by paving the way in easy to understand topical courses that you pick and choose based on your
own needs.
We welcome you to come explore your wild side online in a safe, productive and fulfilling manner. For
more information, feel free to drop by our campus; we can't wait to see you there!

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The Legality of Virtual Escorting

Other than Nevada, almost every state has laws against solicitation or prostitution. The exchanging of money for sex is
considered illegal even on a virtual level. The laws are based on intent. Agreeing to do it, admitting to doing it or preparing
to engage in a sex act for money can lead to charges of solicitation or prostitution even if a sex act did not occur.
A real life prostitute is found guilty of solicitation the moment rates are quoted, agreed to or payment accepted; it does not
require a sex act for solicitation or prostitution to occur. Similarly, the promise to perform for money still applies in a virtual
setting even if the sex act will not occur on a physical level.
Due to the fact that the conversation, advertising and transaction are all in writing which in essence is a written admission
of guilt, it is easier to prove thereby resulting in a higher rate of conviction. A computer is an indisputable witness that
keeps a record of all interactions and transactions. Your hard drive provides all the information needed to determine if
charges are warranted.
The big question revolves around the physical act of sex. Most people believe virtual escorting is legal because a physical
sex act does not take place. The issue is not 'what' but which law falls under which jurisdiction. Prostitution is governed by
the state. However, cyberlaws are governed by federal law. To understand how that works, let's look at a simple
comparison:
The state creates a general hamburger patty and calls it a burger.
But the federal government provides the bun and adds all the condiments that attach to the state's burger. Whether you like
them or not eventually all those combined additives become part of the burger.
It doesn't change it from being a burger, but now it's a burger covered in extras that can help law enforcement obtain a
conviction in cases that would otherwise not have been able to otherwise.
To that end, this is the definition of prostitution according to the FBI official database:
Prostitution and commercialized vice-The unlawful promotion of or participation in sexual activities for profit,
including attempts to solicit customers or transport persons for prostitution purposes; to own, manage, or operate a
dwelling or other establishment for the purpose of providing a place where prostitution is performed; or to otherwise
assist or promote prostitution.
The expanded wording and use of 'or' rather than 'and' makes it possible to convict based on the promotion, the transport or
even the commercialization of an implied sex act. Although the law is typically enforced state wide, if there are any traces
that the internet was used to commit these acts, you can be held by Federal standards. So it's not 'what' you do, it what it
appears that you are doing, that can cause legal problems.

Marketing
A Rose by any other name
The role play itself is not illegal. Nor is the virtual sex act (except in some instances and in some jurisdictions). It is the
accepting of money for it. So sell a legal product and continue to enjoy your role play. Understand that the law still works
on an innocent until proven guilty system. If you dont provide proof that is easy to obtain track or follow, its rare that
anyone will bother to entrap or attempt to bring suit against you. Make it hard for anyone to interrupt your play and you can
play safe and enjoy your virtual sex life.
If you are providing an illegal service online, know that it will only be a matter of time before you get caught. Booking
clients in a virtual setting, then meeting them in real life is prostitution not role play and is generally illegal in almost every
state. Until the laws change dont do it or move to Nevada!
Cybersex between consenting adults is still legal in the US so there would not be punishments, fines or penalties as long as
you remain within the criteria and guidelines of safe play.
Stating that you will provide X for a certain amount of money, is an automatic admission of guilt. So you never want to
put this in writing. What you want to do is market something you are permitted to sell by law.
Before marketing, remember what you are really selling. Are you planning on meeting this person? Are you attempting to
live life as a prostitute? If you are a normal everyday person who enjoys erotic writing .. then you are not a prostitute but a
role player. So create your game!
This may sound difficult but look at it this way. There are a ton of online games that sell bits/bytes in the form of coin, hp,
mp, cloaks etc and they make millions of dollars doing it. Are they selling actual power for a character? Can you take that
item and hold it in your hand or remove it from your computer? You most certainly can't just like you can't obtain an
erotica role play experience in the physical world.
The marketing department has a basic role play game that anyone can participate in. It's the farmers market. If you have
moderate writing skill, you should be able to describe the most tantalizing fruit you can think of and sell it to a client. There
is still an art to making sure things aren't easy to connect but for basic safety, having a product you can give in exchange for
money is the first step to protect yourself. Additionally you can offer to sell fruit, but never, EVER say you are selling sex.

Question of Money
Safety Dance
So you now know not to put sex and money in the same conversation, advertisement or any other written document that
indicates you are intending to provide an act for compensation. How do you determine if what you 'do' want to sell is legal
or not?
Role playing partners can basically charge for their time if they so choose to do so. Again, as long as they are not intending
to provide arousal or sexual stimulation. So it is suggested that you find an item to sell that is perfectly legal and make all
transactions surround that one product.
The other question is following the money trail.
In a typical drug deal, if the money doesn't connect the buyer and seller, then there is not a way to prove any illegal
transaction took place at all. Now let's use a bit of common sense. If I want to sell you an apple, and I get the apple from
another person then sell it to you; neither of us have broken the law. If you want to give me a kiss as a thank you, we still
have not broken the law. If you decide we want to go on a date afterwards, again, no one has broken the law. It's only when I
give you the apple and you respond by having sex will it appear as though an illegal transaction has occurred.
Okay so most of you are probably proficient in sex play. But more than likely have no clue how to obtain, sell etc a fruit.
If you are seriously working as an online escort, there is little advice that can be given that will keep you out of trouble
because you are choosing to violate the law. If you are working as a role play artist, then it's fairly simple.
Provide something tangible like a menu item with an appropriate description.
In a role play anything goes, it's your imagination that matters so use it to your fullest extent! There's little reason to have to
indicate you are escorting if you are already on an escort sim. Give your potential clients a menu or a list of veggies or
whatever you're going to sell and let them buy that from you and protect both of you in the process.
So the bottom line is to keep conversations about purchasing or money in line with legal products.
Keep the 'date' separate so you are within the confines of the law. Never the twain should meet.

Communicating with your Clients

A new language

Farmer's Market
Plants that make you happy