is prostitution legal in canada or not...?? i mean i heard its perfectly legal for you to get a hooker and stuff in vancouver or montreal or where ever in canada....but i also heard you'll get busted if getting caught getting all freaky digy in SC with a stripper...or picking up any chicks off the street....i mean whats up with that....
Legal....?? i mean seriously...
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Prostitution IS legal in Canada
This is straight form the canadian criminal code, which can be found at http://laws.justice.gc.ca:
Prostitution IS legal, however, attempting to communicate in a public place or in any place open to public view with another person for prostitution is illegal.
More from the criminal code:
Which I suppose should mean agencies are illegal
This is straight form the canadian criminal code, which can be found at http://laws.justice.gc.ca:
Prostitution IS legal, however, attempting to communicate in a public place or in any place open to public view with another person for prostitution is illegal.
More from the criminal code:
Which I suppose should mean agencies are illegal
korskarn said:
Actually my reading of that is that that is what makes incall illegal, since that is the only purpose of an incall place.
However, and you'll even see this on some sites, with an agency they are merely sending you a girl that you make a donation for their companionship, anything that occurs between two consenting adults at that point is their business.
I think that is the loop hole that allows outcall to be legal.
But that's just my interpretation.
Incall is illegal as it pertains to the bawdy house laws:
Bawdy-houses
Keeping common bawdy-house
210. (1) Every one who keeps a common bawdy-house is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
Landlord, inmate, etc.
(2) Every one who
(a) is an inmate of a common bawdy-house,
(b) is found, without lawful excuse, in a common bawdy-house, or
(c) as owner, landlord, lessor, tenant, occupier, agent or otherwise having charge or control of any place, knowingly permits the place or any part thereof to be let or used for the purposes of a common bawdy-house,
is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Ronnie,
Naughtylady
Bawdy-houses
Keeping common bawdy-house
210. (1) Every one who keeps a common bawdy-house is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
Landlord, inmate, etc.
(2) Every one who
(a) is an inmate of a common bawdy-house,
(b) is found, without lawful excuse, in a common bawdy-house, or
(c) as owner, landlord, lessor, tenant, occupier, agent or otherwise having charge or control of any place, knowingly permits the place or any part thereof to be let or used for the purposes of a common bawdy-house,
is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Ronnie,
Naughtylady
Come on....if it was legal, it would be sold at Wal-Mart....or you would choose your girl at Encan Direct H.Gregoire...
Nowhere is writen that having sex with someone and receiving money is illegal....but in fact, the code is clear about ALL that is around business of sex: sollicitation, advertising, locations for this purpose, helping someone to do it, having company to sell sex service...etc...so, the only legal thing, is to do it between two people and keep it to yourself: no advertsing, no talk on the street...such make it tough to find a prositute (for Johns) or to find client (for SPs).
All the info was given by many good merbites here. Thread should be close.
Nowhere is writen that having sex with someone and receiving money is illegal....but in fact, the code is clear about ALL that is around business of sex: sollicitation, advertising, locations for this purpose, helping someone to do it, having company to sell sex service...etc...so, the only legal thing, is to do it between two people and keep it to yourself: no advertsing, no talk on the street...such make it tough to find a prositute (for Johns) or to find client (for SPs).
All the info was given by many good merbites here. Thread should be close.
An indy who does outcalls only, and is prudent in her way of advertising and communicating limits the possibilities of problems with LE.
Ronnie,
Naughtylady
Ronnie,
Naughtylady
There was talk a few years they would crack down on newspapers such as JdM or especially the Mirror since let's admit it is the most blatant about it. The bawdy houses laws are mainly used is someone complains about the traffic/noise/drugs in the neighbourhood.
Prostitution became legal in Canada in the same way as abortion and lap dances: the Supreme Court. The bawdy house laws are still on the book but they are currently before the Supreme Court and I would not be surprised if they are modified as well in the near future.
klown
Prostitution became legal in Canada in the same way as abortion and lap dances: the Supreme Court. The bawdy house laws are still on the book but they are currently before the Supreme Court and I would not be surprised if they are modified as well in the near future.
klown
Prostitution has always been legal in Canada. I know because I researched it for a class I took called History of Sexuality. 
Ronnie,
Naughtylady
Ronnie,
Naughtylady
You are right Naughtylady. It's the semantics around prostitution that put it in the legal gray area.
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