Caught this story below today, and as the caption infers a laywer/prof wants to change the laws to make the selling of sex legal, but the buying of sex illegal. In a way, sounds like a contradiction. Potential entrapment. Or simply unfair say - cops come in for a bust, look at hooker - okay you can go. Look at customer - you, you're busted. To me it just sounds wrong. Not into drawing it out more, but you know where I'm at with it. Curious what others have to say.
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Selling sex should be legal, buying it should remain outlawed: advocacy group 2
By Tyler Orton, 24 Hours Vancouver
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:43:45 PDT PM
Janine Benedet, counsel for Women's Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution talks about the Supreme Court case regarding Canada's prostitution laws at a press conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday May 29, 2013, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter presents the arguments that women’s equality groups will make before Canada’s highest court in relation to prostitution, violence against women and women’s equality. The Supreme Court of Canada is conducting its hearing regarding Canada’s prostitution laws. (CARMINE MARINELLI / 24 HOURS)
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Buying sex and pimping must remain a criminal offence while the sale of such services should be legal in Canada, according to a Vancouver advocacy group that will make its arguments next month before the Supreme Court of Canada.
“There is something besides simply criminalizing everyone involved in prostitution … and decriminalizing and legalizing the sex trade so that men are free simply to buy women at will,” said University of B.C. law professor Janine Benedet, who is representing the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
The group, which includes the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, was granted intervener status last month in a Supreme Court case that will rule whether Canada’s prostitution laws are constitutional.
Benedet said the Nordic prostitution model of “asymmetrical criminalization” has made countries such as Sweden, Norway and Iceland unfavourable destinations for johns and human traffickers.
But there isn’t much empirical evidence to suggest that model has been of much benefit to sex workers, according to University of Fraser Valley criminologist Tamara O’Doherty.
She said the lack of social support services in Canada compared to Sweden would make such a system incredibly difficult to implement in this country.
Simon Fraser University criminology professor John Lowman said introducing the Nordic system to Canada would essentially amount to “institutionalized entrapment.”
Police would only be able to enforce the laws against male clients by luring them into situations where women are selling sexual services legally, he noted.
“The Nordic model helps women as long as they want to get out of prostitution,” he said. “But if they don’t want to get out of prostitution, it essentially sacrifices them to a form of a radical feminist ideology.”
Poll
Should Canada make it legal to sell sexual services, but illegal to buy them?
Friday, May 31, 2013
Yes
No
Not sure
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2013/05/2...ying-it-should-remain-outlawed-advocacy-group
Thanks.
Selling sex should be legal, buying it should remain outlawed: advocacy group 2
By Tyler Orton, 24 Hours Vancouver
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:43:45 PDT PM
Janine Benedet, counsel for Women's Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution talks about the Supreme Court case regarding Canada's prostitution laws at a press conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday May 29, 2013, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter presents the arguments that women’s equality groups will make before Canada’s highest court in relation to prostitution, violence against women and women’s equality. The Supreme Court of Canada is conducting its hearing regarding Canada’s prostitution laws. (CARMINE MARINELLI / 24 HOURS)
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Buying sex and pimping must remain a criminal offence while the sale of such services should be legal in Canada, according to a Vancouver advocacy group that will make its arguments next month before the Supreme Court of Canada.
“There is something besides simply criminalizing everyone involved in prostitution … and decriminalizing and legalizing the sex trade so that men are free simply to buy women at will,” said University of B.C. law professor Janine Benedet, who is representing the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
The group, which includes the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, was granted intervener status last month in a Supreme Court case that will rule whether Canada’s prostitution laws are constitutional.
Benedet said the Nordic prostitution model of “asymmetrical criminalization” has made countries such as Sweden, Norway and Iceland unfavourable destinations for johns and human traffickers.
But there isn’t much empirical evidence to suggest that model has been of much benefit to sex workers, according to University of Fraser Valley criminologist Tamara O’Doherty.
She said the lack of social support services in Canada compared to Sweden would make such a system incredibly difficult to implement in this country.
Simon Fraser University criminology professor John Lowman said introducing the Nordic system to Canada would essentially amount to “institutionalized entrapment.”
Police would only be able to enforce the laws against male clients by luring them into situations where women are selling sexual services legally, he noted.
“The Nordic model helps women as long as they want to get out of prostitution,” he said. “But if they don’t want to get out of prostitution, it essentially sacrifices them to a form of a radical feminist ideology.”
Poll
Should Canada make it legal to sell sexual services, but illegal to buy them?
Friday, May 31, 2013
Yes
No
Not sure
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2013/05/2...ying-it-should-remain-outlawed-advocacy-group
