Forum Newsfront

November, 1985

Caught in the ActLos Angeles--California's 1982 prostitution law has been used to convict a producer of sexually explicit films. Specifically, the defendant was found guilty on five counts of pandering under a law that defines a panderer as "any person who procures another person for the purposes of prostitution" or for providing sex in return for money. The five women involved in the filming had had no previous prostitution arrests, considered themselves actresses and testified that t...