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?? The Criminal Code certainly does discriminate. See Ronnie's link to the Criminal Code, Section 210. The person owning or operating is charged with keeping a common bawdy-house. The SPs are charged as "inmates", and the customers as "found-ins". These are summary charges, which I believe could...

I believe the term 'decriminalization' refers to removing laws from the Criminal Code. In Canada this would involve getting rid of the common bawdy-house, procuring/living on the avails of prostitution, and maybe public communicating laws. I assume there would still be criminal laws about...

But they do. Where did you check? http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/healthlifestyle/02-11.asp

I see there was a thread on Merb earlier this year regarding a newswire story that went around the world, claiming that a 25 year old woman in Germany had been threatened with loosing her unemployment benefits if she refused to consider taking a job in a brothel as a sex worker. It appears no...

Norris McDonald in The Toronto Star seems to think NASCAR is considering Downsview Airport, in the middle of Toronto. There is a Bombardier factory there, so I suppose it's possible they might be interested, but I haven't heard anything else about this being a real possibility.

Forum XXX and Stella are mentioned in Gazette article today on Valerie Boucher. http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=b7a8c7a6-5545-472e-9084-04934025e6ad

Gazette has an article today on the tenth anniversary of Stella. http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=e18cecd5-d1f6-4709-8b34-44c44738178b (In the last few minutes, the article has been available for free on line, then subscriber only, now free again.)...

Mar. 24 Josie Vogels column http://www.seemagazine.com/Issues/2005/0324/josey.htm or http://www.joseyvogels.com/MyMessyBedroom.html Maisonneuve article by Christopher DeWolf. The added comments which follow the article are very interesting and well-informed, comparing the differences...

Probably everyone agrees that coercion and employing people under 18 should be crimes. I suppose there could be some kind of national media regulations about advertising. Decriminalization by the federal government likely means the lower levels of government will make their own new...

Art Hanger is an ex-RCMP detective, from Calgary, which may be the only big city left in Canada where they still go after all the escort agencies for "living off the avails". It's the usual party line from all the police, whether it's drugs or the sex trade - "spend more of your tax money on...

There's an article in The Gazette today (unfortunately not available for free online) titled "MPs review prostitution laws" He was Justice Minister when 213 was changed to its present form, in the 1980s when Brian Mulroney was PM.

Take a look at the rooms in this place. http://australianescorts.com/board/showthread.php?t=3299 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/16/1045330464217.html

I hope the committee eventually plans to hear from someone representing the thousands of sex workers in this country, not just sociology professors. The laws here force sex workers to work in dangerous conditions, but there is one other important reason to change the laws. The countries...

The Parliamentary Subcommittee examining prostitution laws has been restarted, and begins meeting again on Jan. 31. Chair is John Maloney (Liberal from Ontario), Vice-Chair is Libby Davies (NDP from BC), other members are Hedy Fry (Liberal from BC), Paule Brunelle (BQ), and Art Hanger...

I haven't been there, but here's a board for Australia and New Zealand, apparently based in Western Australia (Perth) since most of the posts are in that section of the board. It has a familiar look to it, doesn't it? http://australianescorts.com/board/ Their rates are also similar to...

Now that the federal election is over, this could be a good time to write to Members of Parliament to ask them to restart the committee that was examining prostitution laws. New Zealand and much of Australia have decriminalized prostitution in recent years. I think they provide very relevant...

Ottawa Citizen editorial on the report pointed out there is no purpose for keeping the laws the way they are now. Except for the public communicating law, they're not enforced much, and public soliciting doesn't seem like a serious enough transgression to be a criminal offence. It's too bad...

The terms decriminalization and legalization are both non-specific, although legalization usually implies more government regulation. This article summarizes the changes that New Zealand made last year that were described as decriminalization. They seemed to think it would cause prices to...