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Yes, but they can... Like when the city needs money. How convenient would it be to suddenly make the purchasing of sex from a consenting woman a "top priority"? How easy would it be to start nailing and "stinging" unsuspecting Johns who are thinking to themselves, "Hey, the Vancouver police said it's not a high priority crime, so that must mean it'll never be enforced... I mean, it's just as good as being legal."?
Canada is turning into a police state just like the U.S. You can already find prostitution stings online, and they'll be more and more of them.
Sorry, but you are wrong....Escort services here are tax paying licensed businesses, and have been for years
Sorry, but you are wrong....Escort services here are tax paying licensed businesses, and have been for years
...What? I don't know what point you felt you were making... If the city needs money, they can start cracking down on the Johns who buy sex... Those arrests will come with fines, which will generate money for the city. Again I'm not sure what point you thought you were making, but I wasn't wrong. Many "justice" systems are nothing more than for-profit businesses.
Whether prostitutes pay taxes or not is a completely different subject entirely.
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Originally Posted by tickyul
Makes a lot of sense...........Canada is very Magina/Feminazi-centric.
So go after the main buyers of sex, men.............and leave the girlies alone!
Exactly. One could argue that this law is sexist. Since the majority of people who sell sex are women and the majority of people who buy sex are men, you can be sure this law works towards the detriment of men who engage in prostitution, while allowing women to act with complete impunity for engaging in prostitution, it's ridiculous.
It's illegal to buy sex in Canada, but legal to sell it... How can anyone think that makes any sense whatsoever? To make something illegal to buy that's perfectly legal to sell is beyond asinine.
I've read a lot of dumb laws in my life, but I think this one takes the cake of being the most backwards and twisted.
I mean, I would assume that so-called "educated" people deliberated for quite some time on this (weeks, months, years?) before throwing this tripe into the law books... And somehow, it got approved by someone who has authority that at least some of the masses recognize. Can anyone help me understand how this law passed and how it could possibly be considered just?
None of this effects personally of course, and I'm not say that I would ever indulge... I'm just saying it's bull****, what are your thoughts?
I understand it. A person cannot purchase a prostitute because it has questioned morality to use someone as exclusively sex, while the prostitute (seller) may be in the trade because they have no other options, or at least feel that way. It's to protect the prostitutes, who may be a victim of abuse or manipulation, from being charged with criminal offenses but still a law that is meant to combat prostitution.
I personally think the law is likely to be ineffective. I think prostitution should be legal, but only in brothels. As history has shown, the best way to beat organized crime is to make legal what they are selling.
Government has no right to tell me who I can have sex with.
I used to have some friends who worked the sex trade both in Seattle and in BC. Those in BC regarded police as friends and protectors, while those in Seattle saw them as slime and mortal enemies.
As "Longnote" notes, the BC model was kinder and gentler, but the Seattle model brought in more cash to city coffers. Cash is king, and it would not surprise me if the Seattle model spreads to BC rather than the reverse.
The government says criminalizing those who “create a demand for prostitution” limits the lure for sex workers... much like charging employers of illegal immigrants. Decrease the # of prostitutes & illegals by making it punishable to hire them.
That actually makes sense to me in a weird way. Should be our law for illegal immigrants. We understand the need for the person to be here, to feed their family, to make a better life. But should be highly unlawful and carry a mandatory federal prison sentence for anyone who employs them without proper documentation and without paying all taxes and insurances ect.
That actually makes sense to me in a weird way. Should be our law for illegal immigrants. We understand the need for the person to be here, to feed their family, to make a better life. But should be highly unlawful and carry a mandatory federal prison sentence for anyone who employs them without proper documentation and without paying all taxes and insurances ect.
Horrible anaology. The "Johns" could argue that sex workers being able to advertise and tempt them creates a "lure" for them to buy sex... It's ridiculous.
It's illegal to buy sex in Canada, but legal to sell it... How can anyone think that makes any sense whatsoever? To make something illegal to buy that's perfectly legal to sell is beyond asinine.
I've read a lot of dumb laws in my life, but I think this one takes the cake of being the most backwards and twisted.
I mean, I would assume that so-called "educated" people deliberated for quite some time on this (weeks, months, years?) before throwing this tripe into the law books... And somehow, it got approved by someone who has authority that at least some of the masses recognize. Can anyone help me understand how this law passed and how it could possibly be considered just?
None of this effects personally of course, and I'm not say that I would ever indulge... I'm just saying it's bull****, what are your thoughts?
The late comedian Pat Paulson (He ran for President in 1968) once said our present pornography laws basically said If you see pornography that's fine but you better not show it to anybody else which Pat observed took much of the fun out pornography.
Horrible anaology. The "Johns" could argue that sex workers being able to advertise and tempt them creates a "lure" for them to buy sex... It's ridiculous.
Maybe ridiculous, but I do understand the Canadians thinking. I remember back when prostitution was actually a problem we considered important in America, the good old days.
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