Prostitution is legal in Canada. There are no laws prohibiting the sale of sex. However, criminal prohibitions on bawdy houses (such as brothels), living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public for the purposes of prostitution make almost all forms of sex work illegal. Out-call work, where sex
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Straight Outta Edmonton: Bedford Challenge to Canada’s Prostitution Laws
Prostitution is legal in Canada. There are no laws prohibiting the sale of sex. However, criminal prohibitions on bawdy houses (such as brothels), living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public for the purposes of prostitution make almost all forms of sex work illegal. Out-call work, where sex
Continue readingbastard.logic: QOTD: Rethinking Sex-Positivity & Sex Work
Audacia Ray: If we put aside our attachment to the sex positive construction of sex work, we will certainly hear things that will be hard to sit with. But for sex positivity to be a useful framework, one that encourages the pursuit of social justice, it must also engage with
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