Now answer a question for me. Let's take a girl going to college or raising a child who decides to do sex work because she can earn far more doing sex work than she can at any other job. She is not forced into anything, and if she earns less per hour at another job, her life will become unmanageable. Why should the sad lives of the lowest class of sex workers, and the exploitive politicians, social workers, and angry anti-sex women's groups be able to constantly use the streetwalker as an example of why prostitution is bad. The media and the politicians act like middle and upper class prostitutes do not exist. They are the ones who face the most economic harm by C-86.
Reminds me of the last conversation I had with an escort I met in Seattle.
Hungry: "Did you hear about the new proposed law in Canada"
Escort: "No.
Hungry: "They are going to outlaw the buying of sex but make it legal to sell sex. What do you think about that? What do you think about the escorting"
Escort: "It [escorting] paid my way through college."
Hungry: "Did you ever think about just doing this a couple of times a month?"
Escort: "You mean just for fun?"
Hungry: "Well, you would get paid. Just not make as much. Wait, do you enjoy this?"
Escort: "Yes, [I get a rush off this]."
Hungry: "But what about trafficked girls?"
Escort: "Oh yes. This is a big problem."
Hungry: "Have you seen any [trafficked girls]."
Escort: "No."
Hungry: "Neither have I. I have never had the slightest indication that the escorts I have been with have been trafficked or coerced."
Escort: "And you could tell. I mean you can tell [when something is wrong.]"
Hungry: "I would think so. Have you ever been arrested?"
Escort: "No!"
Hungry: "Me neither. How did you get into this?"
Escort: "Friends of mine were doing it. They introduced me to [it.]"
Hungry: "Have any of your friends been arrested?"
Escort: "No. And I have been doing this [on and off for 7-8] years."
Funny, I have had several conversations just like this with the ladies. This woman was gainfully employed in a professional career but she still did this in her evenings. She does not have a boyfriend or husband and she likes the money and the sex. I would say that most of the woman I have met have a similar story. So who is it that the government is trying to protect? Why should this be anybody's business?
I wonder if society can't handle the fact that women enjoy sex and the rush of meeting new people and selling sexual pleasures? So, instead report after report is about trafficked women who are being forced to do this. Maybe it is easier to swallow than your wife or girlfriend that dumped you or your daughter and the neighbor girl is out whoring herself for money? Maybe stories of pimping and trafficking and horrible lecherous men forcing women to perform acts against their will is easier to swallow? The Laim Neeson scenario of pumping heroin into the veins of the prostitutes as they are chained to the bed as was portrayed in the cheesy, low budget Hollywood hit
Taken is easier to accept then the fact that women can enjoy escorting.