The NYPD will arrest you for carrying condoms, but that depends entirely on who you are. If you're a middle-class white girl like me, you're probably safe. But say you're a sex worker or a queer kid kicked out of your home. Say you're a trans woman out for dinner with your boyfriend. Maybe you've been arrested as a sex worker before. Maybe some quota-filling cop thinks you look like a whore.

    Then you're not safe at all.



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Sounds to me like they arrest people who loiter, approach people, and in short generally act like prostitutes.

EDIT: I've read Molly Crabapple before, I'm almost sure. According to Wikipedia, she started her career drawing for a pornographic magazine, which strikes me as vaguely hypocritical.


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