A Toronto judge has struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, saying provisions meant to protect women and residential neighbourhoods are endangering sex workers’ lives. If Justice Susan Himel’s decision stands, prostitutes will be able to communicate freely with customers on the street, conduct business in their homes or brothels and hire bodyguards and accountants without exposing them to the risk of criminal sanctions.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said the federal government is “very concerned” and is seriously considering an appeal of the 131-page ruling.
Alan Young, a lawyer at the forefront of the landmark legal challenge, said it is too early to say whether Tuesday’s decision could open the door to Canada going “the way of Germany with five-story brothels.”
But to his client, Terri-Jean Bedford, a dominatrix who was convicted in 1998 of keeping a common bawdy house, it was “emancipation day.” “How am I going to celebrate? I’m going to spank some ass,” Bedford, cracking a riding whip, told reporters.
Let the discourse begin anew!
Found by John Martinez.
@ the losers in this thread
I won’t spend time arguing about whether prostitution should be legal.
Rather I will question what it is about you that you need prostitution to laid.
Evolution is in part that losers get none and winners get all. Quit trying to game the system, the system works fine. Just look at the results.