hifisex said:
Granted PERB could be considered being a public place*. So there may be a risk you could face a procurement** charge if you openly discuss setting up an appointment with an SP and during the course of that public discussion you go into details such as services provided & moneys paid.
No Perb is not a public "place" That has been settled in the courts long ago. Newspaper ads for prostitutes, magazines, websites are not public solicitation because the web or newspaper etc is not a public "place" which has to be a physical place. The intent of the latest change in the solicitation law was specifically addressed due to street prostitution issues. A public place could also be the public area of a hotel, but of course not a private room.
There is even a case where a remote location off a rarely traveled road was not a public place because of the expectation of privacy.
Procuring is usually related to enducing usually by force someone into prostitution. Is usually tied to under aged or foreign trafficing. However there is currently a case pending in Ontario where an agency owner was asked by a cab driver who turned out to be an undercover cop about sexwork wanting to consider his wife getting into the business. The undercover cop was trying to bust drug dealers but the agency owner clearly was not involved in drugs so he arrested her for procuring.
The case is still pending I doubt it will go anywhere.
The gals reviewed etc on the board are already in the business. Procuring is almost always about enticing usually by force someone to become a prostitute. Of course being a prostitute is totally legal in Canada, but not trying to get someone to be one, or of course incalls (rarely enforced unless complaints or other crime) or under aged.