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LA Is Trying to Fix Its Prostitution Problem by Banning Right Turns at Night

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Re: LA Is Trying to Fix Its Prostitution Problem by Banning Right Turns at Night

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Other than men generally having more money than women, what gender difference do you attribute this situation to? What innate quality is there that trumps financial inequality for purposes of explaining who purchases sexual services and who sells them?

The evolutionary trait that has a male mammal just ejaculate whenever they can with ease, whereas a female mammal has to wait for the appropriate period to conceive and then pass several months to give birth and carefully feed milk and raise the child. Which makes the former wanting to play around as much as possible, while the latter not so much so. Man, for similar reasons (and the male of the species in most such…

There is more to human female sexuality than pair bonding and pregnancy.

Your understanding of human sexuality and mine are so not on the same page, they aren't even in the same book.

Re: LA Is Trying to Fix Its Prostitution Problem by Banning Right Turns at Night

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Not only are right turns safe, but they are safer than left turns, because the A column can more easily block pedestrians crossing a street parallel to the cars motion before the turn. And so a single right turn is safer than a single left turn, and this proposed law is going to make people perhaps do 3x as many left turns as they would have right turns.

What's an 'A column' on a traffic junction? And why would pedestrians be crossing if the traffic is moving?

Sorry, it is the support beam between the body and the roof of the car that is closest to the driver.

Re: LA Is Trying to Fix Its Prostitution Problem by Banning Right Turns at Night

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They're bringing in a weird traffic rule so the police can selectively pull over whoever they want who happens to make the mistake of falling in their cunning illegal left-turn trap, thus giving the illusion of probable cause for a traffic stop.

I see. I was theorizing it cut down on certain circular cruising behavior, perhaps, or the ability to pull off the road to drop off or pick someone up.

Yes, it's a bit of a clickbaity title.

Another title could be, "LAPD is trying to misuse obscure traffic laws in order to search people without probable cause".

But I guess that's clickbaity too.

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