The expansion of gambling routinely proposed in Connecticut would certainly have consequences for crime and addiction, impacts the state has long shied from studying in any serious way. And I doubt many people would embezzle from their employers to keep up with their prostitution habit.

I don't think you'd see anybody jump off a parking garage at Foxwoods because they had a bad session with a prostitute. I never thought I would see the day when evangelicals would support a president who has extramarital affairs with a bunny and a porn star and who talks about grabbing women by their genitals, but here we are.Īnd really, in terms of the harm to society, prostitution seems pretty low on the impact scale, at least if it were sanctioned and regulated and of course consensual. It does seem like one of the last taboos that American society upholds, and the others have fallen so easily.

But you have to admit there are many ways for them to argue for it. I'm not saying that would be a good idea. Instead of asking for longer liquor hours or sports betting, maybe they will consider asking for legal prostitution. Now that gambling, even legal marijuana, is becoming practically ubiquitous, it may take some new groundbreaking sin center to keep traffic counts up at their rural reservations. It makes me think that maybe, just maybe, the tribes are going to need a really big expansion of the vices available on their reservations. The Connecticut tribes are also, no doubt, thinking about a push to match here in Connecticut the extended hours for liquor service at MGM Springfield, where you will be able to drink until 4 a.m. Still, it is hard to imagine building a business strategy on that kind of addiction, though I guess big tobacco has been doing that for years. I'm a reformed smoker, and I've evolved from my early no-smoking years, when I was still envious of people enjoying a long drag, to bewilderment now when I see people light up, wondering how they can continue in the face of such overwhelming evidence of the harm they are doing to themselves.

I was taken aback a bit to read that one strategy for Connecticut's Indian tribes to compete with the emerging casino industry in Massachusetts - including the spanking new Springfield MGM, which opens later this week - is to emphasize that gamblers can smoke here on tribal gaming floors.

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