Starchild Found Not Guilty of Prostitution Charges

November 9th, 2007 by Steve

starchild1.jpgNever a stranger to controversy even within sometimes strange Libertarian Party circles, male sex worker and political activist Starchild has been found not guilty of charges of prostitution in a unanimous jury decision. From reading his explanation, it looks he won on technicalities and that he won the jurors over. No matter one’s views on the topic, it does seem that the intent to exchange sex for money was there. A general picture of the trial is described here:

The actual trial started Monday with the opening arguments, followed by the testimony of Officer Heather Fox, the Fremont Police vice cop who lied and pretended to be a client in order to lure me into this entrapment.

Technicality number one didn’t seem to go so well for the self-described sex worker.

While it got off to a rocky start when the judge prohibited her from talking about the Fremont police chief’s memo to the community letting people know the department would no longer investigate burglar alarms unless there was a verified problem, and was cutting back on auto theft, robbery, and street crime investigations, all due to an alleged lack of resources — “alleged” because they seemed to have no lack of resources for entrapping prostitutes on the Internet for intending to engage in sexual activities among consenting adults — it was all uphill from there.

Here’s the uphill part:

Erica demolished the contention that the cop saying “OK, that works” in response to hearing my rates for time which could include “being fucked” meant that we had an actual agreement, noting that if you go to Best Buy and a salesman is telling you about various TVs and how much they cost, and you say “OK, that works” but nothing subsequently happens such as you taking a TV to the register, it does not mean that you have committed to purchasing one.

…and winning over the jury helps, too.

[The jury foreman] said that when I mentioned that I would have had sex with the two female vice cops for free, he said “us four guys in the back were all going ‘Me too!’”

I would have loved to have seen that moment captured on video.

Question: How come sex for money is illegal but politics for money is? Sex is certainly less sleazy.

Posted in Civil Liberties, Culture, Libertarian Party, Libertarian Movement




10 Responses to “Starchild Found Not Guilty of Prostitution Charges”

  1. Austin Cassidy wrote on 11/10/07 at 12:04 am :

    That is one interestingly dressed dude right there.

  2. Rich Paul wrote on 11/10/07 at 12:50 am :

    Great news! I met Starchild and Porcfest, and he was a great guy!

  3. A. Keaton wrote on 11/10/07 at 1:33 am :

    That is one fine piece.

    (Just 30 more days until Libertarian Lent.)

  4. Eric Dondero wrote on 11/10/07 at 11:07 am :

    Ironic, that pacifist leftwinger Steve Gordon is reporting on Adam Starchild.

    For those who are not aware, Starchild is one of the most forceful and adament Pro-Defense libertarians in the Nation. His number one issue is fighting Islamo-Fascism, and “kicking the shit out of” Muslim Radicals.

    I’m baffled as to why Gordon would be coming to his defense, given Starchild’s “Dondero-ian/Goldwater/Rohrabachian views?

  5. Mike wrote on 11/10/07 at 8:38 pm :

    Sex doesnt have loose chards, either.

  6. go go gadget santorum! wrote on 11/11/07 at 10:47 am :

    The language is yours, Eric, not his. He mistakenly believes in the “liberation” claptrap, that part’s true. But so what?

    Steve’s no leftist, and rest assured that when and if you ever get arrested for prostitution, we’ll support you too.

  7. disinter wrote on 11/13/07 at 12:23 pm :

    Good question.

  8. Starchild wrote on 11/14/07 at 5:57 am :

    Thank you Steve, for blogging about my (our) court victory! I hope it will be an inspiration to sex workers in other places to stand up for their rights. Some of my colleagues in the Sex Workers Outreach Project did a lovely bit of street theater, which has been captured in a lovely video prepared and edited by the indomitable Scarlot Harlot (aka Carol Leigh) — see http://scarlotharlot.blogspot.com/.

    In response to Eric Dondero — I am not Adam Starchild. Adam Starchild is dead. I do not want to “kick the shit out of” Muslims or anyone else. It’s true that I am often supportive of international military interventions by the U.S. government. However I think such actions are only justified by the need to overthrow oppressive governments and protect human rights, not by the need to “defend” the U.S., therefore I do not call myself “pro Defense” in this context. I am not a nationalist. While I believe countering Islamic fundamentalism (not “Islamo-Fascism”) is important, such fundamentalism is but one of many sources of repression and bigotry and threats to liberty. It is hardly my “number one issue.” Freedom is my number one issue, and I don’t have a number one sub-issue. Eric, please take a bit more care with the facts.

    Rich Paul, I enjoyed meeting you at PorcFest too, and am very glad to see you post here! You left your CDs in the door pocket of my rental car, and I didn’t find them until returning it at the airport. If you gave me your contact info, I couldn’t find it, so I had posted on the FSP board looking for you so I could get them back to you, but I guess you never saw that. Hopefully you will see this one — you can reach me at four-one-five-six-two-one-seven-nine-three-two.

    Angela — what is “Libertarian Lent?” I do think the libertarian movement could use some more spirituality, but Lent would not be my first choice of traditions to adopt! Surely we at least need Mardi Gras first…

  9. webhed wrote on 12/9/07 at 7:09 am :

    I have been given and sold marijuana while driving a taxi in fremont, later to find out it was the police… I realized this after they tried to buy weed back from me later.

    They even offered me meth for free, saying they found it on the ground at bart.

    I never sold weed to them, nor accepted the meth.

    Fremont Police are corrupt!

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