442 Pa. Super. 54 - Commonwealth v. DeStefanis’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “When [the detective] inquired about the price of a hand release, the vague response was, “a tip would be appreciated.” Arguably, when a client does not agree to pay for a sexual service up front, the ensuing act constitutes sexual activity between two consenting adults. [The detective’s] second masseuse, did not even make [the detective] an offer of any type of sexual activity; it was not until the massage was completed and [the detective] initiated inquiries ... about sexual options that she spoke about hand releases. There can be no assumption, therefore, that a hand release was included in the price of the massage.... [That the proprietor] indicated ... that providing hand releases was an acceptable way to make “tips” is not probative of a prostitution “business”....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 448 Pa. Super. 42 - Commonwealth v. Johnson

2. “Though it is clear that a prostitution business was operating at the date and time in question, the Commonwealth did not prove that the appellant received any income from the business.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2001 Pa. Super. 267 - Commonwealth v. Dobrinoff