Quote from: Guru on July 30, 2012, 06:29 amQuote from: LouisCyphre on July 30, 2012, 06:05 amI have friends who are sex workers. I'm just glad they work in places where prostitution is legal and they have security (bodyguards/drivers) with them when visiting clients (yes, the escorts are escorted).Licensing that industry means regular STD checks and no law enforcement interference unless a crime actually occurs (e.g. a client assaulting a sex worker). There are some dangers, of course, but a lot less than in places where prostitution is illegal.The weirdness in this country is that technically, prostitution is NOT illegal. Communication for the purposes of prostitution is illegal (go figure).Okay, that's pretty weird. The quote in the New York Times article makes it even more weird with the inclusion of "living on the avails of the trade" being a crime. What would be the point otherwise? If it were just about the sex then it would be a lot of one-night stands. For fuck's sake! Those laws are just retarded, it's a way of outlawing prostitution while pretending to the opposite.Quote from: Guru on July 30, 2012, 06:29 amThere was a madam who ran a 'bondage bungalow' who was charged with running a house of prostitution, or a common bawdy house. She fought this in court, and won, as this story in the New York Times states: QuoteWorld Briefing | The AmericasCanada: Bondage Bungalow Madam Wins Prostitution Law ChallengeBy IAN AUSTENPublished: September 28, 2010An Ontario court struck down key provisions of Canadas prostitution laws on Tuesday after finding that they endanger women by forcing them to work on the streets rather than from their homes. While prostitution is legal in Canada, federal criminal law bans almost every activity that makes it possible. The decision, by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, overturns laws prohibiting the keeping of a bawdy house, communicating for the purposes of prostitution and living on the avails of the trade. The constitutional challenge was brought by two prostitutes and a dominatrix who was convicted under the bawdy-house law for running what she called the Bondage Bungalow. The ruling will not take effect for at least 30 days to allow Parliament to write new laws. An appeal by the government is likely to extend that period. I think the government may have appealed... this will likely end up in the Supreme Court of Canada. I don't doubt it. With luck those ridiculous laws will be overturned, but the whole world appears to be undergoing a conservative reaction at the moment, at least on a number of things, so I doubt overturning such laws will be quick, if it happens at all.