[kosko]

You can't restrict what two people agree to in regards to time in a private setting. Cities can regulate if brothels and establiahments can be. Many cities in Ontario for instance are cool with 'rub n' tugs' akak massage spots so they can explicitly control where they can open up and operate. Toronto suburbs for the most part are cool with them but regulate them to indsuterial arras away from homes and schools. In Toronto they ban them.. Sorta. So you can have a massage spot set up shop right beside your home because they operate as a regular massage establishment. That is a example of how cities can regulate these types of things.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

VICE recently produced a documentary on the subject - done by a former stripper:

The legislation is designed to abolish prostitution, which is of course impossible. It will only squeeze out the Omega males. My take is that even if 100% of women between 18-35 would marry by next week, then 10-20%+ of men would be left without a partner in some Canadian cities. The gender ratio is that much off.

It's essentially a law created by useful fools like the prohibition laws, which only enrich the few and saw mayhem among the rest.

Prostitutes for the most part are not victims. Currently I think that the business is shifting ever more into sugardaddy relationships. Those kind of relationships are not illegal - any legal moves to ban it would by proxy ban LTRs and marriages.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-sta...poon-sugar

Quote:

Might any of this qualify as prostitution? The websites say no. A sugar daddy doesn’t want his sugar baby to leave, whereas no client of a prostitute “wants the hooker to stick around”, as SeekingArrangement puts it. This argument has prevailed in America’s courts. If a relationship exists, payment can be labelled as compensation for companionship, not sex.

States that attempt to close that loophole fail, says Scott Cunningham, an economics professor at Baylor University in Texas who has studied prostitution markets. Proposed legislation against the practice might, he says, inadvertently prohibit marriage—which could, after all, be defined as intercourse for financial support. This is why, he adds, laws target streetwalking, pimping and other practices connected with types of prostitution. Finding a man online sidesteps all that. It is telling that PayPal, faced with a lawsuit, is dropping its refusal to process payments on SeekingArrangement, Mr Wade says. He expects the discreet payment option to become available this summer.

It seems some countries cannot decide fully whether to pick 1984 style of sexual repression versus Brave New World style of sexual super-promiscuity. Canada is currently following George Orwell and wishes to create the first country of incel hell, where only the top Alphas get laid and everyone else either has to marry a 30-something Alpha widow slut or becomes the honor citizen in wank-town.

[Sherman]

That video is so out of touch. It doesn't even mention the tons of Chinese and Japanese young ladies who immigrate to Vancouver and provide services to men to pay for their English lessons.

[TheSlayer]

So I just googled a few escort companies in Toronto and all of them have the same notice on their website now. They say that now you are paying for "companionship" and "sex is not on the table".

From what I can tell from the news this law hasn't been really enforced in Ontario and it seems like it's business as usual for all these escort services but instead now you are paying for "companionship" rather than sex.

As others have chimed in, it's a stupid law anyway.

[germany]

(11-10-2014 09:14 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

Sounds like the bottom line of this is:

Coddle, excuse, elevate, and pamper the women who chose to become prostitutes.

Give taxpayer money to women who chose to become prostitutes.

Remove personal responsibility from the equation when it comes to women choosing the profession of prostitution, but keep personal responsibility when it comes to punishing men who patronize prostitutes.

Rebrand every prostitute as a victim, deserving and worthy of sympathy, government subsidies, and favoritism.

Yeah, that's about it. Did I miss anything?

Also make it a huge shame for a man to go to prostitutes,

but make it "empowerment", "career" and "doing what the woman chooses
with her own body" for all women who choose prostitution
as their way to get easily a lot of money

Canada is one more country where I will never again put my foot in

[Laner]

(06-27-2015 11:12 AM)Sherman Wrote:  

That video is so out of touch. It doesn't even mention the tons of Chinese and Japanese young ladies who immigrate to Vancouver and provide services to men to pay for their English lessons.

Exactly. Almost every Vancouver central high rise has a "micro-brothel". They will never catch a motivated and smart Jon unless he is street trolling or is caught in a sting.

Good luck getting rid of prostitution. The mama-sans are just too smart, make too much money and the lifestyle of Vancouver is one that legitimizes escorts anyway.

[Carboneraser]

(11-10-2014 09:14 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

Sounds like the bottom line of this is:

1. Shame and punish the men who patronize prostitutes.

2. Coddle, excuse, elevate, and pamper the women who chose to become prostitutes.

3. Give taxpayer money to women who chose to become prostitutes.

4. Remove personal responsibility from the equation when it comes to women choosing the profession of prostitution, but keep personal responsibility when it comes to punishing men who patronize prostitutes.

5. Rebrand every prostitute as a victim, deserving and worthy of sympathy, government subsidies, and favoritism.

Yeah, that's about it. Did I miss anything?

Toronto was having HUGE trouble with pimping and all that and conservative party said this was supposed to protect against it. Didnt give an explanation.... Gonna go with yours

[Pokerbaby]

I noticed that all the hookers at Jarvis and Carlton have disappeared. I wonder if this has to do with legislation changes.