“Meanwhile, Hawaiian politicians tried to make up for lost time by officially granting cops the “right” to rape sex workers by spelling the permission out in the text of the new prostitution law. When a legislator discovered this provision in 2015 and rewrote the law to scrap it, the cops demanded that their decades-old droit du seigneur remain in place, and it probably would’ve had not the media gotten hold of the story and a public outcry not ensued. Now there’s a movement to decriminalize sex work there, which might at last free Hawaiian whores from the tender mercies of cops.” CopsPolice Force Book:The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan" Source: The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan"