Independents and the kind of freedom they have to choose are still in a small minority.
How do you know that?
Minority, most of, all of, majority, huge majority, very few... Those are terms generally used to hide our ignorance and to push our concerns.
People are rightly concerned with the issue of freedom when we talk about prostitution. The problem is that, contrary to what we do when we talk about any other people, we tend to polarize the answer for sex workers: they are free or they are subdued. Reality is that it is a continuum.
I have deep sympathy for Sgt Montchamp. He has a terrible job. His working days are loaded with horror stories. I can understand that he gets disgusted with the whole trade. However, as a police spokesman and head of the vice squad, he should restrain from throwing phony numbers. He looks a bit ridiculous with his math formula concluding that “each girl” brings in 600000 $/y. I bet anyone that not even one sex worker has ever made even near that amount in Canada’s history. I find it also interesting that many people talk about a RCMP estimate of 2000 people trafficked in Canada every year in addition to the internal traffic. I have never seen that figure in a RCMP report. The RCMP has stopped publishing numbers on human trafficking. I think the vice squad should do the same.
Commander Iannantuoni says he wants to end sexual exploitation. That is great, Commander, and most members of this forum certainly agree with you. Sexual exploitation is a crime in Canada. And your job is to fight crime. You guys have made a huge progress in the last couple of years reducing criminal charges against victims. But you have no business fighting sex work as a whole to attain this goal.
Valarie , you say that you hate all the reports saying that all the girls in this industry are victims. And to justify your point, you mention that you're an independant, no agency, no MP ... Are you insinuating that ALL women that arent independant workers or either work for agencies or MP's are PIMPED , or victims ?
See this is what I dont like about both sides I'm reading.
You mist her point. She hates reports saying that ALL sex workers are victims. She says that can’t be true since it is not her case, she’s independent.
About the sides in this debate, one says that all sex workers are victims, the other says there are victims in the trade but many are not victims. I find the last position reasonable, the first dogmatic.
