{"id":34139,"date":"2015-10-20T22:14:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T02:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=34139"},"modified":"2015-10-20T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T02:21:53","slug":"rentboy-raid-update-manhunt-owner-joins-escort-workers-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=34139","title":{"rendered":"Rentboy Raid Update: Manhunt Owner Joins Escort Workers Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=34145\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34145\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Feds-take-down-Rentboy-com.jpg\" alt=\"Feds-take-down-Rentboy-com\" width=\"525\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Owner of gay men&#8217;s social networking sites, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhunt.net\/\">Manhunt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jackd.mobi\/\">Jack&#8217;d<\/a>,\u00a0Jonathan Crutchley is the latest to show his support for escorts and the recently raided male escort site Rentboy.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, the Manhattan headquarters of <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofwonder.net\/busted-rentboy-raided-by-the-feds-in-manhattan\/\">Rentboy was shutdown\u00a0<\/a>as part of a money laundering and state prostitution investigation. A couple days later, author and performance artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldofwonder.net\/justin-vivian-bond-speaks-out-about-the-rentboy-com-raid-its-about-sex-phobia-and-public-shaming\/\">Justin Vivian Bond joined-in on the growing conversation<\/a> about workers rights in all industries, including sex workers. Now,\u00a0Crutchley has become a member of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncorb.worldsecuresystems.com\/\">The National Coalition of Rent Boys &amp; Allies<\/a>&#8211;\u00a0an organization advocating for the legal rights of male escort workers, and he has also made\u00a0a financial contribution to the legal defense team representing Jeffrey Hurant, founder of Rentboy.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is no business of the government at any level\u2014 be it federal, state, or local\u2014 to enter the bedrooms of consenting adults and tell them what they may or may not do within that private setting,&#8221; says\u00a0Crutchley. &#8220;I founded my company in the name of individual privacy and sexual freedom. In the name of individual liberty, the Federal government needs to do the job it was given to do by the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=34141\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34141\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rentboy1.jpg\" alt=\"rentboy\" width=\"312\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rentboy1.jpg 312w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rentboy1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NCORB has set up a website with articles, columns and reactions to the Rentboy raid. You can check it all out <a href=\"https:\/\/ncorb.worldsecuresystems.com\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owner of gay men&#8217;s social networking sites, Manhunt and Jack&#8217;d,\u00a0Jonathan Crutchley is the latest to show his support for escorts and the recently raided male escort site Rentboy.<br \/>\nBack in August, the Manhattan headquarters of Rentboy was shutdown\u00a0as part of a money laundering and state prostitution investigation. A couple days later, author and performance artist\u00a0Justin Vivian [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[5442,5441,5445,1647,5440,5443,58,5028,5444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34148,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139\/revisions\/34148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}