February 27, 2012
Many people wouldn’t expect sex trafficking to be a Canadian issue. The majority of media coverage is about women being smuggled from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America to work in brothels or massage parlours. However, it happens everywhere in the world; sex trafficking doesn’t discriminate based on gender, age or nationality, and it is ...
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November 1, 2011
Are brothel-owners any better than the pimps who sell their workers on the streets? Believing themselves to be light years better than mere pimps, owners of brothels, “massage” parlors, and escort agencies promote the idea of safety and security to sex workers. This simply can’t be true. Could it? One case surrounds a housewife in ...
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crime,
decriminalization of sex work,
escort service,
law,
massage parlor,
paying for sex,
prostitution,
sex employees,
sex work