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Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by yummyfajitas on Saturday April 08, 2017 @08:04AM (#14066529)
It's similarly rational to be more wary of your health when dealing with the refuse of a normal (non-prostitute) gay man. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5937a2.htm?s_cid...

Consider a comparable headline: "My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up bathhouse, because my gay renter had gay sex with a man he met on the gay app Grindr."

Would this headline be deserving of a similar level of sympathy/moral weight/etc?

Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by anjc on Saturday April 08, 2017 @08:20AM (#14066571)
A person underhandedly uses somebody else's house as a gay bathhouse and the owner's upset that they have to clean up after the men? Yeah I think it's ok to be sympathetic to that situation...

You're not going to make me change my viewpoint by making it about gay people

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Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by anjc on Saturday April 08, 2017 @08:27AM (#14066590)
Bro if you will happily clean up the sweat, spit, blood and semen of people who use your house as a brothel or bathhouse then maybe there's an app idea in there for ya. Most people would not be happy doing that.
Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by JoeAltmaier on Saturday April 08, 2017 @09:49AM (#14066881)
Most of that is present in a hotel room regardless of the 'brothel' angle. Its what hotel cleaning crews deal with every day.

Lets admit it, its the moral angle that's getting folks all spun up.

Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by anjc on Saturday April 08, 2017 @10:14AM (#14067000)
Of course it is, and rightly so. It's completely underhanded to use someone's premises as a brothel without their say-so.

Hotels are facilities which cater for all sorts of people and can cope with all sorts of eventualities. When you rent your house out for the night to a couple, you do not expect them to have used it as a base for prostitution, and should not be as happy to clean up as everybody in this thread seems to be.

Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by JoeAltmaier on Saturday April 08, 2017 @10:52AM (#14067176)
I guess we differ here. If you rent your apartment as a hotel room, then you'll have to clean it as a hotel room. The cleaning part is a red herring.

All that remains is, wishing to regulate the morals of the renters. Which is an iffy proposition at best.

Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by foldr on Saturday April 08, 2017 @09:06AM (#14066716)
Indeed, which is why most people should not rent their apartments on AirBNB.
Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by anjc on Saturday April 08, 2017 @09:16AM (#14066746)
I'll just hire yummyfajitas to stand outside with a mop and disinfectant, using my cut of the illicit proceeds. Let's hope no cops are watchin ;)