Seventeen attorneys general have sent a letter to Craigslist demanding that the San Francisco-based website remove its adult services section. The letter charges that the site does not adequately block illegal ads peddling prostitution.

The letter is the latest chapter in the ongoing sex saga of politicians versus Craigslist. This time, getting into the act are the attorneys general of Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, according to the Associated Press. 

California’s own Jerry Brown, who is running for governor, was not involved in the letter-writing campaign. In May, Rep. Jackie Speier called on Craigslist to kill its adult services listings, too.

But passionate calls for Craigslist to squash its adult services section are not a legal grounds to force the site to do so. As The Bay Citizen’s Zusha Elinson wrote back in May: “Legally speaking, it appears that Craigslist is no more responsible for prostitution than a stretch of sidewalk in the Tenderloin.”

To read an interview by The Bay Citizen’s Scott James with a prostitute who finds most of his clients on Craigslist, click here.