Instead we have a valid Quebec decision holding that simplr "grinding" in a strip club constitutes prostitution and that therefore the strip club where grinding habitually takes place was a common bawdy house. (Note: there is no requirementbthat the grinding be "to completion".)
True. Most cases concerning SC in Québec have to do with indecency, but the case you are referring to is indeed about being a bawdy house and defining, at least partially, the act of prostitution. I have no idea how this judgement could influence a case about a hand job in a massage parlour.
And after reading the full text of the Ontario decision to which you refer, I pity the lawyer whose only argument is to rely on that case and who truly believes that the case definitively establishes the proposition that a HJ is not prostitution.
I may be wrong on this, but I think that LE and prosecutors in Québec prefer not to have a decision about massage parlours. The issue is uncertain in regards to the Ontario judgement and more importantly, in my view, I think it gives them more latitude in controlling the industry. There is a tolerance with massage parlours, in cue with the general social acceptance of it, at least within certain limits. If no distinctions are made between a massage parlour and a no limit bawdy house, some citizens will begin filing complaints. Due to the uncertainty of the possible issues, it is only prudent that the massage parlours limit themselves in the services they provide, at least in the open eye, as most of them do. That explains, I think, the policies of merb on that matter.
So rules are rules; don't discuss fellatio and coitus in the massage section, but feel free to discuss in detail any and all other methods of penile stimulation. And if the discussion is in the "incall" section, like magic, all these scruples about illegality of the BJ for money at a fixed place of business just disappear into thin air.
Illegality of in-call escort services is something no one argues. No problem discussing here the service you get there. They make publicity about it. It is their choice to offer the service and it is your choice to go even if you know it is illegal. You simply make your choice according with your evaluation of the risk. However, it is clear you are in a bawdy house in view of the criminal code. When you go in a massage parlour and get a hj as part of an erotic massage, it is not clear you are in a bawdy house.
I am not saying you are right or wrong on the issue of legality. The question is: why search in the massage parlours industry for services that are provided in the escort industry?
