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NO legalized brothel in Vancouver, ex-prostitutes say

Sisyphe | 14.12.2007 05:03

The mayor of Vancouver, some persons and groups favorable to the decriminalization of prostitution, pimps and johns, the New Democratic Party’s deputy and some other neoliberals support a project to create a brothel, legal and administered by women in prostitution, for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

It seems that British Columbia’s most vulnerable women in prostitution, that is the aboriginal women, were not consulted on this project which tries to force the hand of the federal government to obtain what was not up to here obtainable otherwise : the total decriminalization of prostitution. Some invoke the usual excuse of prostituted persons’ safety to justify this project, but nobody is dupe : it is a question of institutionalizing the merchandizing of human beings for the financial interests of certain groups and persons, in spite of the fact that prostitution entails invariably the trafficking of human beings, in particular of women and children. Such a project is against the objectives of feminism because it supports the subjection of a class of women to men-prostitutors, pimps and traffickers of all kinds.

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- Other story: NO Legal Brothel in Vancouver, by Ex-Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude (X-PALSS)

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Been trying to get more info

14.12.2007 15:42

In Canadian usage just like here in the US, the term "decriminalization" is NOT the same thing as "legalization".

It CAN mean that, but often just means changing the violation from criminal to civil, like you can get fined for littering or parking in the wrong place, but you don't go to jail for civil violation (unless you fail to pay the fine, etc).

So far I haven't seen ANYTHING that would lead me to believe.........
1) Anybody is proposing "legal brothels"
2) The "harm reduction" folks seem to be talking about decriminalization for the prostitutes. I haven't seen anything indicating they meant to do away with criminal treatment of the "living off" charges used against pimps. And the Johns? Unless the prostitute is underage that's a civil violation now.

Mike Novack
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