Re: What to do there? (Was: Re: Space Tourism (was Re: Orbiter shape.)

From: Rand Simberg (newsgroups_at_transterrestrial.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:55:50 GMT

Invid Fan wrote:

>>>Sex will probably be one of the early selling points. Not sure if they
>>>could get away with providing a companion for single rich geeks :)
>>
>>Why not? What law would apply?
>
>
> The laws of the country the company flies out of, most likely.

The US has no federal laws against prostitution (yet). Individual
states do, but not the country. If that were to change, it would be one
  more disastrous blow (like the federal drug laws) against federalism.

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