Sex and Government

My collection of oddball stories about what happens when politicians and bureaucrats get involved with matters relating to sex.

• California bureaucrats are regulating participants in porn films, as humorously described by Mark Steyn.
• The World Bank is paying poor young women so they don’t take up with sugar daddies.
• Obamacare is so costly that some young women are looking for sugar daddies.
• Obamacare also subsidizes Viagra for sex offenders.
• British taxpayers are financing sex trips to Amsterdam.
• The U.S. Tax Court has ruled that money spent on sex change operations is deductible.
• The law in Hawaii allows cops to have sex with prostitutes.
• In Germany, by contrast, prostitutes have to use parking meters to pay tax.
• A brothel in Austria offered free sex to customers to protest high taxes.
• Pakistani officials use transsexuals to encourage tax payments.
• But in Colorado, you can get busted (no pun intended) for cutting hair while topless, but not because you’re bare-chested.
• Topless dancing isn’t artistic and therefore is subject to sales tax according to a New York judge.
• The United Nations wants taxpayer-financed birth control to be a human right.
• And in Spain, porn has a lower tax rate than the theatre.
• Strip clubs and a lesson about the Laffer Curve.
• Venezuelan socialism can ruin a fun thing.

And here are two more examples. Government isn’t involved yet, but will be if statists get their way.

• Leftists concocted a crazy theory that tax havens promote sex slavery.
• And other leftists hypothesized that climate change promotes prostitution and AIDS.