The National Pulse uncovered the op-ed piece from Brinton, which was posted to The Advocate, an LGBTQ news website.
In the article, posted on September 2, 2015, Brinton defended Rentboy.com, calling a federal government "attack" on the website a "a devastating assault on some of the most vulnerable members of our community," and adding that "young adults" were able to "secure living safely" for the first time through the website.
Brinton later acknowledged though, "Rentboy.com may or may not have broken the law. I don’t know."
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"But I do know, from the frantic emails filling my inbox, that the raid on its headquarters has thrown many gay, bisexual, and transgender young adults into turmoil as their main source of income has been ripped away due to irresponsible and archaic views of sex work," wrote Brinton.
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Brinton wrote then, "The rent boys weren’t harming anyone. But now these young men might have to return to communities and homes which have rejected who they are. And that’s when the real danger begins."
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According to the National Pulse, the website was shut down following an August of 2015 illegal prostitution raid, which occurred just weeks before Brinton’s piece was published.
Department of Homeland Security officials charged the Manhattan offices of Rentboy, containing chief executive Jeffrey Hurant as well as six other employees on the charges of encouraging prostitution on Rentboy.
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In 2016, Hurant was arrested on the charge of promoting prostitution on the sight, and eventually pleaded guilty to the charge. According to the New York Post, Hurant was issued a six month sentence in 2017.
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The Biden appointee wrote in his report that "the dissolution of Rentboy is more dangerous than the website ever was."
In the US District Court of the Eastern District of New York’s indictment against Rentboy and Hurant, it said negligence in the site’s part about underage work, especially in Asia, with prosecutors detailing how the age verification process on the website was a "gray area," as they "did not always remove advertisements when the advertisers failed to provide identification."
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"In one case, after an escort agency failed to provide photo identification for an escort, a RENTBOY.COM employee advised the escort agency that he had deleted photographs with the face of the subject escort, but left the advertisement online and left photographs that showed only the escort’s body," the indictment stated.
In Asia, Rentboy "failed to comply with its own standards requiring age verification,” with the company ignoring “employees [who] complained to RENTBOY.COM management about the quantity of underage escort advertisements."