Canada Strikes Down Prostitution Laws!

[SoVi3t]

The Supreme Court Has Struck Down Canada's Prostitution Laws. Now What?

Certainly the decision, as written by Chief Justice McLaghlin, is clear in that a new approach is required: Canada cannot, at the same time as the act of prostitution is itself technically legal, have criminal laws in place that effectively force sex workers to undertake their work in dangerous ways (by making it illegal to operate a bawdy house or brothel where they might work more securely; by making it illegal to communicate in public about sex work, limiting opportunities for sex workers to ask questions of prospective clients—questions like “Are you a violent murderer,” for example; and by making it illegal for a person to live off the avails of prostitution, thus also making it impossible for a prostitute to hire a proper bodyguard if that’s what is desired).

And so the Supreme Court gives Parliament one year to rewrite prostitution laws in Canada, and this is where cynicism must set in—because the Supreme Court really had no other realistic option in this case other than to allow Stephen Harper’s Conservative government the opportunity to rewrite prostitution law.

The prospect that perhaps Canada might pursue a sane, grounded, and realistic approach to minimizing the dangers of sex work—both to its practitioners and its clients—seems frankly elusive, because you have to ask yourself: Do you really think Stephen Harper’s Tories are going to do that? Really? A party whose right-wing base, furious that ITS socially conservative ideals have not been upheld by its leadership, is now going to work to protect the rights of prostitutes?

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[specs]

Good.

lol @ the PCs getting all mad about this.

[Manx]

Ugh. Now people can have sex without the constraints of marriage. Even GAY MARRIAGE! :wow:

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