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There was a realistic survey done a few years ago in Australia. Queensland's Female Sex Workers Generally Happy In Their Work And the New Zealand government's very detailed 2008 report found that: But, c'mon, who needs real surveys when Heather Mallick can so accurately explain the situation...

"Why anti-john laws don't work" http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1072845--why-anti-john-laws-don-t-work

I think you may be getting at the root of the problem that exists in the minds of these people. It is what unites the two extremist strange bedfellows on the same side in this fight, the religious zealots and the misguided element of anti-sex feminists. They both seem to think sex drive...

Just in case this hasn't already been mentioned somewhere on this board -- Joy Smith has, at least temporarily, backed off her proposal to make it a crime to pay for sex. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Private+bill+targets+human+trafficking+outside+Canada/5542505/story.html That sounds...

Joy Smith is at it again, today in the Winnipeg Sun. Laughably, she backs her assertions by pointing to Melissa Farley, one of the government's best "experts" whose research was revealed as a bunch of nonsense during the court case that resulted in the Himel judgement in Ontario. I'm not one to...

"The Brothel Project" documentary will be broadcast as part of the Currents series on Global TV, on Wednesday June 9th. Apparently it may be a slightly shortened version from the one seen a few months ago at the Victoria Film Festival...

This sounds like it might be longer and produced by people who have more of an understanding of the situation. http://www.thepromotionpeople.ca/clients/brothelproject.htm I don't see a date or time listed yet, other than sometime in 2010, for its appearance on GlobalTV. Maybe someone in...

I wish more media would learn about reality, as suggested by another columnist answering a letter. http://www.eyeweekly.com/fun/lovebites/article/72378 -- not that I would expect this Hasiuk jackass to be willing to learn. He admits "Vancouver`s sex trade industry... remains a mystery" to him...

Do you see any suggestion that they intend to make the entire business illegal? That's not what they're doing. The issue seems to have been about zoning -- attempting to ghetto-ize everything into a neighbourhood. Decriminalizing prostitution is not a "failed experiment" -- certainly not in New...

Victor Malarek is liar. He has become a journalistic laughing stock in recent years. He talks only to a certain group of gullible and delusional moralistic and religious zealots who repeat huge made up numbers, fictional "studies" and stories to each other, intent on recreating the...

Not to be too negative, as this documentary meant well and was certainly a big improvement over the usual media fiction, but I was disappointed. The web site summary led us to think the documentary would show how this is a large business in Canada that is already largely tolerated and accepted...

Who wouldn't want to be associated with these guys? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y9VzvTaf50

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/20090319/business_of_sex_090319/20090319/

What a load of Oprah-Show psyhco-babble bullshit! It's called sex drive. It's an instinct, not a psychological character flaw. These types don't seem to accept or understand the basic fact that men are generally more visually and physically stimulated, and less emotionally stimulated than...

The Courier writer and police who say similar things are exploiting inaccurate stereotypes some people may believe simply because they don't know any better. Ignorance helps them. The more the media and the general public know about the real situation, the more they will realize the abolitionist...

the Courier opinion piece http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/opinion/story.html?id=15053609-8ec5-4fb7-bf61-d9e22147f461 and one of the five letters they printed a few days later in response...

Who paid for the 'yes' commercials? Even if there was some kind of Canadian association of sex workers who could afford TV ads to advocate decriminalization, would there be any television stations who would accept them? Seeing those anti-abortion and Salvation Army ads on the Victoria A-Channel...

The Sun did, but it was more than four years ago (and they mentioned Perb). https://perb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=18632 https://perb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=18571

I heard about this a few months ago and forgot about it, assuming it had no chance of passing (and it didn't). Despite the headline, I'm not sure the word "decriminalization" is accurate either, since it apparently only involved not spending money to enforce the laws, without actually repealing...

I don't understand how the police avoid scrutiny for "looking the other way" and not enforcing the relevant criminal laws for decades. At best, it's incredible hypocrisy. At worst, this type of thing: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,21725996-5012936,00.html Are people too gullible...