US, legal producing pornography, illegal prostitution
<p>If prostitution is illegal in the US, but production of pornography legal, couldn't johns/punters just offer prostitutes money for filming a pornographic movie instead of money in exchange of sex?</p>

<p>At least in the US, trying to evade one law (prostitution) by complying with another set of laws (porn film production) gets very complicated, very quickly and is a simply unrealistic endeavor. Laws are written with loopholes in mind, and even if there was an obvious loophole as you imagine, it could be closed rather quickly.</p>

<p>To be more specific, any porn film production of any size is very heavily regulated at the state and federal level, and your legal liability in shooting even a simple, one off film without permits, insurance, taxes, etc., is much greater than the relatively simple simple prostitute/john situation. Google "porn film regulations" to get an idea of the differences.</p>

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