Taking today as 100%, how did the pass stack up? I would say comparing today to the year 2000 the hobby was at 250%. There were salons and indys all over the place in Montreal, some in far away places like Verdun, Lasalle, near the east end refineries, many in Ndg/Cote de Neige, St. Hubert street. Many in Laval and Rive Sud. The majority are gone now. there were indys all over advertising in little news papers like the Voir and crappy district papers. On the street scene there uses to be 2 in Verdun, one in Chomedy and North end Pie IX.
How much is the hobby down, after C-36, and Mayor Coderre crack down.
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I don't think C-36 changed those aspects but the internet and accessibility did. Yes in early 2000 the internet was there but not as well "known" or spread as now. For instance i remember in late 90s staying at school after it was over for the 1h computer lab fun. Even around 2001/2002 i would go to the public library for for my computer fun. Still remember my first computer, an old thing that was given to me by my aunt with windows 98... 
It was around 2005 i think that i finally got a decent machine with high speed internet (that had just been put in my small town)
Anyway sorry im going a bit off topic but my point is that even if news paper ads where not "banish" i doubt they would be as popular today as they could had been back then.
BUT i dunno if its C-36 or simply the fact that the peoples don't find them as usefull as they used to, but i feel there is less reviews in general than 5-6 years ago. And one thing especially, there seem to be less emphasis on details. For instance i find it much harder now to find cim/cof providers as before. And no i can't just ask... Some indies don't like to that about that in mail and agency seem to avoid answering those questions by text (probably to protect themselves)
I was browsing old TERB threads couple days ago and peoples put lots of details in reviews. Even there more recent reviews seem tamer (altough i obviously don't read everything over there since im not in there region)
Anyway maybe its just an impression, maybe its just a natural evolution... i dunno... or maybe its C-36
It was around 2005 i think that i finally got a decent machine with high speed internet (that had just been put in my small town)Anyway sorry im going a bit off topic but my point is that even if news paper ads where not "banish" i doubt they would be as popular today as they could had been back then.
BUT i dunno if its C-36 or simply the fact that the peoples don't find them as usefull as they used to, but i feel there is less reviews in general than 5-6 years ago. And one thing especially, there seem to be less emphasis on details. For instance i find it much harder now to find cim/cof providers as before. And no i can't just ask... Some indies don't like to that about that in mail and agency seem to avoid answering those questions by text (probably to protect themselves)
I was browsing old TERB threads couple days ago and peoples put lots of details in reviews. Even there more recent reviews seem tamer (altough i obviously don't read everything over there since im not in there region)
Anyway maybe its just an impression, maybe its just a natural evolution... i dunno... or maybe its C-36
Yep things have went down by a lot and gone much more conservative. Many members on this board are in denial but the evidence is there. If it were not for Merb agencies escorting scene would be pathetic. Many tity bars are being forced by the city with too many rules and restrictions. Strippers are turning more and more straight. Mileage dropped across the board. There can be no more advertisements of sexual services publicly. The environment is not hostile to prostitutes and their clients. The US is ten times more hostile.
There was never any Coderre crackdown. He did a show-off a couple of days before taking office but he was advised by his entourage to calm down, which he did. It's hard to say if Québec City is a good indicator of what goes on in Montréal (the business is more concentrated in massage parlors here) but if so things have moved with the economy. There was a substantial drop in business in the years following the 2008 crisis but are back at a comparable level now. Quite clearly, however, the strip scene has suffered quite less here then in Montréal.
Coderre was a big windbag. When he took a jack hammer to a Canada Post mail box foundation, he had prior knowledge that C Post would be doing so anyways. Coderre probably had prior knowledge that C-36 was coming and made loud statements to the press before his election about massage parlors on St. Hubert Street. So Coderre had little to do with less massage salons in Montreal.
BTW - I hear the windbag might be attempting a come back.
BTW - I hear the windbag might be attempting a come back.
The wingbad will just go with the win... but after the formula-E revelations, I doubt he will come back.
They're hypocrites because... 80% of politicians use SP's.
This came about because we let religion and it's various fairy tales gain ground in the political realm.
Let them kill each other. All of them. The jews the muslims the christians the buddhists and the taoists etc etc. :high5:
This came about because we let religion and it's various fairy tales gain ground in the political realm.
Let them kill each other. All of them. The jews the muslims the christians the buddhists and the taoists etc etc. :high5:
They want votes. A large percentage of the population are social conservatives and go to church. Any politician that is prostitution friendly will not only loose the religious vote but also the feminist vote. It would be political suicide. The issue is society that is still stuck in the old conservative ways. There was a mayor of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve named Real Menard who made a suggestion to have a zone for prostitution. There was a mass protest against that. There was also mayor Pierre Bourque who made a suggestion to have a red light zone only to be meet by mass protest. You see political suicide. Over the past 20 years there has been a mass rise of right-wing conservatism. Seems we have moved back to the 50's.
Hey Cloud imagine it's still this way here in Quebec, by far the most open and liberal place in america. Now you begin to wonder how bad it is in Kentucky or Arkansa
Really bad. The Sheriff is an elected official, he comes down hard of of the hobby when it is election time.
That was true up until the 1960s, but this is 2018 and Quebec is now an extremely secular society. Quebec's politics are dominated by leftwing politicians and feminist dogma is widely accepted by most politicians and the population. So if you want to pin the blame somewhere, then look at who has the real power in modern day Quebec. It's certainly not the Church.
http://www.culturewitness.com/2017/07/falling-from-grace-rise-and-fall-of.html
...Take, for example, attendance at mass - an excellent indicator of the state of engagement by the faithful. Prior to the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, Quebec had one of the highest attendance rates in North America - if not the world. Now it has one of the lowest.[SUP]8[/SUP] And all of this happened very quickly - as noted by former Bloc Québécois leader, Gilles Duceppe, who stated that, “Before Duplessis died, we’d all go to church and make our sign [of the cross], and a year later we didn’t go to Mass anymore.”[SUP]9[/SUP] Just how rapid and precipitous this decline was is clear from the statistics. In the early 1960s, the percentage of Quebec Catholics who attended mass once a month or more was over 80%. By 2007 weekly attendance had dropped to 15%.[SUP]10[/SUP] And the damage continues unabated, as seen by the observation by veteran Vatican watcher, Sandro Magister, who notes that, “Today less than 5 percent of Catholics go to Mass on Sundays. There are few religious marriages, most funerals are civil, and baptisms are increasingly rare.”[SUP]11[/SUP]
I would say the choices are quite a bit less than 5 years ago. Laval and the south shore are deserts.
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