I had a run in with a hooker before.  I plan on being honest during the polygraph.  Will this significantly affect my chances of joining law enforcement?

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Actually most pre-polygraph interviews and even some background questionairres have a question that is along the lines of have you ever paid for, or received sexual favors in return for something of value. 

I'll be honest with you, paying for sex with a prostitute looks pretty bad.  Then again there are all kinds of circumstances that surround this issue that have to be considered.  As a supervisor, the first thing that pops into my head when I hear this is BAD.  While it isn't necessarily true, I make the immediate connection between sex with a prostitute and a crooked officer having a sexual encounter with an arrestee or inmate in order to let them go.  I realize this may not be the case, but I am just being honest with what my perception of this is.  But like I said, I would take all the circumstances into account.  Most departments automatically disqualify for "Crimes of Moral Turpitude" or "Lack of Good Moral Character"  I think paying for sex kind of falls into both of those.  So you may want to check the diqualifiers for the dept. you are applying with.

On a less serious note, I have always found the second part of that question quite funny, because anyone who has ever dated, damn well knows that for the most part a man's intentions when taking out a woman for dinner/ on a date is to hopefully end the night with some sort of sexual encounter.  Hence, for those of you that have ever bought a woman a gift, paid for dinner, or invested any sort of money on her with hopes of it leading to sex are technically guilty of the second part