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To date an escort via Facebook, just move to New Zealand

New Zealand, land of naked news and decriminalized prostitutionThe best chance you have at getting a date with an escort off Facebook? Win a night with Lisa Lewis, the host of the Web show Naked Newsflash. In addition to doing news in the nude, Lewis is a proud escort: "I am not ashamed of what I am doing, I see it as an honest job," she told the Waikato Times. She charges $7,000 an evening for completely legal sexual companionship — legal, not as a wink, but legal, as in, New Zealand has decriminalized prostitution.

Lewis's show and the contest are sponsored by Marquis Condoms, and it's not the first time they've made social-network sexual controversy. When sly references to "poking" girls got its condom ads banned from national TV, Marquis employees uploaded them to less-censored Facebook:

Redeeming the winning date with Lewis may involve breaking Facebook's terms of service, if the exchange of money for sex isn't lawful where you live — or if Facebook chooses to believe that once a woman's placed a price on her time, even giving it away constitutes prostitution.

(Photo via Sunday Star-Times)

12:00 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
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