Britain considers decriminalizing brothels

[HaywoodJabloemy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3898009.stm

 

[OTR2]

After they decriminalize it they should put some of that free revenue into free dental care.

 

[_Ruffian_]

hmmm, more vacations for me in the U.K if that ever happens

 

[HaywoodJabloemy]

maybe ottawa will take their lead and do the same here...

You'd think it wouldn't be all that complicated to let the massage parlours become legal brothels, like New Zealand and much of Australia.

But Canadians are inherently more phony and hypocritical, particularly on this topic. We just ignore it. The article says Britain will have a four month consultation period. We have commissions that take six years to produce a report that no one reads.

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/1998/12/15/canada/prostitution981215

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040716-100043-4171r.htm

Blunkett hinted in an article that brothels disguised as "legitimate" businesses such as massage parlors will no longer be tolerated, the Times of London reported Friday..

"There is a growing trade in selling sexual services in premises licensed for other activities like massage and video or film viewing," he wrote.

"Prostitution must not be concealed behind the facade of legitimate business."

So you see that's completely different from Canada. Our massage parlours are about massages, nothing else, and escort agencies are not selling sexual services. Just ask anti-prostitution Vancouver City Councillor Lynne Kennedy.

http://missingpeople.net/how_cities_'license'_off-street_hookers-june_16,_2002.htm

"The definition of the business doesn't suggest that they are breaking the Criminal Code," insists Lynne Kennedy, a Vancouver city councillor renowned for fighting street prostitution. "They are an escort service. They say, when they come for their business licence, that people who are lonely want a dating service, they want to get together with people, they want to go out to a movie, they want to go out for dinner, they want to have somebody to take to a party. So how can we possibly say you're meeting for the specific criminal purpose of soliciting for sex?"