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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCanada's Supremes overturn all anti prostitution laws
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/12/20/canada-anti-prostitution/4142685/Prostitution has actually been legal in Canada, but activities associated with it have been crimes. For example, operating a bordello or relying on the income from prostitution as one's sole livelihood were illegal.
Finally, sex workers can look forward to safer working conditions and safer conduct of their business.
Editorial comment: Sex work, when engaged in freely and undertaken as a choice, is as honorable as any other profession. Canada's Supreme's ruling clears the way for the law to work to protect sex workers and reduce or eliminate exploitation.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Consenting adults should be free to do as they please.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I could not have said that better myself.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I'll never understand how those two words can set off such a shitstorm.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)Awesome graphics
Stinky The Clown
(67,817 posts)Watch your BP there, pallie.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Blanket Statements
(556 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,817 posts)antiquie
(4,299 posts)Satin sheets to keep 'em off of the streets...
"Satin Sheets" was written by Volinkaty, John Edward.
politichew
(230 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)NOW,
If only the US would follow suit,
and THEN get rid of the archaic Drug Laws too.
That would save BILLIONS, and open up space and court time for more pressing needs.
Logical
(22,457 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)As Indigenous women and girls who have experienced centuries of colonial male violence, the decision by The Supreme Court of Canada to strike down the existing prostitution laws comes as no surprise. Our histories, our laws and traditions, and our worldviews have been purposefully omitted from the Supreme Court decision. Once again, not only our voices, but our bodies and our lives have been dismissed as inconsequential. As women and girls indigenous to this land, who have resisted centuries of colonial oppression, we assert our right to our lands, cultures, laws, and body sovereignty. We reject any ruling that interferes with these unalienable rights. We pledge to continue in the proud tradition of our Mothers and Grandmothers and to continue to fight for our children and grandchildren.We are in a pivotal moment. We have the ability and the responsibility to change the course of history. We urge all those who seek justice, freedom, and equality to look beyond the decision rendered by the Supreme Court and to listen to the voices, experiences, and wisdom of Indigenous women and girls. Prostitution was not and is not a traditional practice among Indigenous peoples. We ask all those who seek justice, freedom, and equality to view prostitution as a colonial system and as a form of violence against women and girls that must be abolished.
We see an opportunity for all of us to work toward a better future a future in which our daughters are not handed over to pimps and johns to be violated, abused, and thrown away. We see hope in the supreme courts decision to decriminalize prostituted women and girls. The next step is to stand up for the rights of Indigenous women and girls by criminalizing the source of the harm in prostitution the pimps and the johns. This would be a truly progressive act in the interest of womens equality.
In addition to laws that criminalize the pimps and the johns, we also demand funding for social policies and programs that prevent women and girls from entering prostitution in the first place, and that help us as we exit and heal. This includes, but is not limited to, safe and affordable housing, guaranteed livable income, counseling, job training, and women-only detox and recovery services. We also demand the government educate itself and the public about prostitution as a form of colonial male sexual violence against women and girls.
We ask the public and policy makers to stand in solidarity with us and to adopt the Nordic Model of prostitution policy. Do not be tricked into supporting the decriminalization of pimps and johns as progressive legal and social policy. We are Indigenous women and girls who have survived hundreds of years of colonialism, male violence, and capitalism, and we are not going away. We are proud to be part of a global feminist abolitionist movement, and we ask you to join us in our fight for freedom.
http://feministcurrent.com/8436/press-release-indigenous-women-against-the-sex-industry-continue-to-fight-for-the-abolition-of-prostitution/
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Maybe the people up north don't consider what happens in private among consenting adults to be a matter for the authorities.
Would that work down here?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I suspect.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)She's a devoted follower of the failed philosophy of Dworkinism, if I recall correctly.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Protecting sex workers
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)and was disappointed that I hadn't read it here first. It breaks it all down for everybody.
Regardless of the issues around the torrents of disgusting bodily fluids and human forms sweatily flopping around on each other, in a sickening ritual that doesn't do anything to thwart inevitable cold, sweet death: what should this market's regulation look like?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Seems to be organized on different principles than the US, with the Constitution and its interpretation by the Judiciary.
I'm not a legal expert, but that's my initial read on these cases.