Smokes, cheap booze, strippers, sex slaves: What next Nanny State?

The troubles only began for travel agents that cater to the pervert set when Vegas's new ad campaign beat them to the punch on the whole "What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand" thing. Now they have Sen. Karen Fraser and Olympia breathing down their necks in the form of Senate Bill 6731 which seeks to curtail the sex tourism industry (which may or may not actually exist, in our opinion).

From the Seattle Times:

Sen. Karen Fraser, the main sponsor of the bill, said she wants to help reduce the demand for such trips. While she said she wasn't aware of any Washington state travel agents offering such tours, she said the state needs to take a pre-emptive stand.

"It is a global moral issue, and we should take every step we can to try and reduce sex slavery," she said.
Fraser, D-Olympia, said she got the idea for the bill after Hawaii adopted a similar measure in 2004.

The law there was prompted by a complaint to state officials by Equality Now, a New York-based women's rights organization that said a Honolulu travel agency had placed explicit advertisements on a Web site that offered the "Ultimate Asian Sex Tour" to Thailand twice a year.